Incontrovertibly, one of the first things one may notice upon reading the work, is the use of highly explicit imagery connecting her thoughts and ideologies. Twisted
Decoration that hangs from a necklace3. As Dillard reflects on her encounter, At first the purpose of the passage Owls by Mary Oliver is difficult to pinpoint. The film Beasts of the Southern Wild and the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God have some critical similarities. Dillard primarily uses ethos and pathos to support her argument and concerning both, the reader discovers; inconsistencies in her character, and conflicts between her perceptions of the weasels emotions and its actions. Standards Addressed: The following Common Core State Standards are the focus of this exemplar: RI.11-12.1, RI.11-12.2, RI.11-12.3, RI.11-12.4, RI.11-12.5, RI.11-12.6; W.11-12.2, W.11-12.4, W.11-12.5; SL.11-12.1, SL.11-12.4; L.11-12.1, L.11-12.2, L.11-12.4, L.11-12.5, L.11-12.6. Dillard embellishes the narrative by appealing to the physical senses to compare animal instinct and one's calling. $ y + * $ ! Some people look at stuff with more meaning while other just look at it just for the simple things. One naturalist refused to kill a weasel who was socketed into his hand deeply as a rattlesnake. Seven velvet straps suspend the single pillow cushion to create a hammock-like seat. Rather, Dillard cares about transcending our routine lives in a search for greater truth. Appendix A: Extension Readings
The Fish by Elizabeth Bishop
I caught a tremendous fishand held him beside the boathalf out of water, with my HYPERLINK "http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-fish/"hookfast in a corner of his mouth.He didn't fight.He hadn't fought at all.He hung a grunting weight,battered and venerableand homely. Obedient to instinct, he bites his prey at the neck, either splitting the jugular vein at the throat or crunching the brain at the base of the skull, and he does not let go. Evil also personifies the earth with these conations stating that the once kind earth turns evil. He examined the eagle and found the dry skull of a weasel fixed by the jaws to his throat. In addition, for subsequent readings, high value academic (Tier Two) words have been bolded to draw attention to them. Now we know that most bats (the microchiroptera, to be precise) perceive the external world primarily by sonar, or echolocation, detecting the reflections, from objects within range, of their own rapid, subtly modulated, high-frequency shrieks. This is yielding, not fighting. DAY. Down is a good place to go, where the mind is single. 3. P 5 This is, mind you, suburbia. This is because Oliver begins with describing the penetrating fear of a terrible (33) great horned owl, and suddenly develops into a section discussing a desultory and trivial field of flowers. (Q17) Dillard also employs reflexive structures such as, I startled a weasel who startled me. Identify an additional instance of this. Sometimes he lives in his den for two days without leaving. Being an experienced hunter now, PigeonEye knew that this was no small dilemma, but an ominous sign. stalks his pray. Homework: Dillard revisits the opening image of a weasel dangling from the neck of an eagle in the final paragraph of her essay, but this time substituting the reader. Then even death, where you're going no matter how you live, cannot you part. Explain the features of the weasels existence that would make it wild? What evidence is there in paragraphs 5 and 6 regarding a human presence at the pond? This correlates to everyone on Earths predetermined fate and the problems that an individual could face when greed overcomes their needs, even when it is for a better or worse life. Outside, he stalks rabbits, mice, muskrats, and birds, killing more bodies than he can eat warm, and often dragging the carcasses home. There was just a dot of chin, maybe two brown hairs' worth, and then the pure white fur began that spread down his underside. His journal is tracks in clay, a spray of feathers, mouse blood and bone: uncollected, unconnected, loose leaf, and blown.1. One filled with assorted animals the other with different men from different religions and locations (Twain). In summary, the author imposes that with weasels, much more freedom is granted through instinctual living, rather than as humans, who live with choices. With these techniques, her whole impression of the essay establishes an adversary relationship between the natural world and the human world. Change). U , ! People take vows of poverty, chastity, and obedienceeven of silenceby choice. It is a five-minute walk in three directions to rows of houses, though none is visible here. meaning: the claw of a bird of prey (n.) related words: talus . But actually, the weasel simply froze out of fear of being killed or caught, and feeling the current of instinctvanished under the wild rose (68). This grade 11 mini -assessment is based on the literary nonfiction text, "Living Like Weasels," by Annie Dillard. Accurate and skillful modeling of the reading provides students who may be dysfluent with accurate pronunciations and syntactic patterns of English. I was stunned into stillness twisted backward on the tree trunk. 17 I think it would be well, and proper, and obedient, and pure, to grasp your one necessity and not let it go, to dangle from it limp wherever it takes you. The comparison of living breathing animals to inanimate objects suggest that the animals are the equivalent of an object in the current state they are in as they are so lifeless and dead, they can be mistaken for the respective things listed thus reinforcing the point that the animals are, "Living like Weasels" is a short essay, which describes Dillard's adventures in watching a weasel. h>: 5CJ
h>: 5CJ ( 7 9 Another example is when Janies husband Tea Cake passed away, she took some seeds with her that reminded her of Tea cake and planted them. She brings up the theme of freedom and describes the way a weasel lives their everyday life with no regrets or fear. 2. I was relaxed on the tree trunk, ensconced in the lap of lichen, watching the lily pads at my feet tremble and part dreamily over the thrusting path of a carp. I remember muteness as a prolonged and giddy fast, where every moment is a feast of utterance received. (LogOut/ 2. Louv calls readers to consider what we'll someday tell our grandchildren if the devaluation of nature continues. In other words, he believes that being in a group surrounded by uniqueness is unsafe because we will not be able to think by ourselves and we as humans will follow the group and be a follower in life. He sleeps in his underground den, his tail draped over his nose. In summary, the author imposes that with weasels, much more freedom is granted through instinctual living, rather than as humans, who live with choices. The weasel lives in necessity and we live in choice, hating necessity and dying at the last ignobly in its talons. In constructing her argument, however, she often contradicts herself undermining the effectiveness of her argument and leaving the reader confused. That practice will in turn support students ability to unpack meaning from syntactically complex sentences they encounter in future reading. What instances in the text show a display of weasels being "obedient to instinct"? 4. We love the juxtaposition of clean lines and organic curves in this armchair. I should have gone for the throatI should have lunged and mute and uncomprehending.
(Q14) Dillard urges her readers to stalk your calling by plug[ging] into your purposeyet she describes this process as yielding, not fighting. What message is she trying to convey with these words? 12 Please do not tell me about "approach-avoidance conflicts." What instances in the text show a display of weasels being "obedient to instinct"? Editions published earlier than 1998 contain the text, "Living Like Weasels . As students move through these questions and reread Dillards Living Like Weasels, be sure to check for and reinforce their understanding of academic vocabulary in the corresponding text (which will be boldfaced the first time it appears in the text). Some evidence that students might cite includes the following:
a clearing blow to the gut it emptied our lungs the world dismantled
a bright blow to the brain, or a sudden beating of brains
the charge and intimate grate of rubbed balloons
It felled the forest, moved the fields, and drained the pond
I retrieved my brain from the weasel's brain
my mind suddenly full of data and my spirit with pleadings
the weasel and I both plugged into another tapeCan I help it if it was a blank?Day Three: Instructional Exemplar for Dillards Living Like Weasels
Summary of Activities
Teacher introduces the days passage with minimal commentary and students read it independently
Teacher or skillful reader then reads the passage out loud to the class as students follow along in the text
Teacher asks the class to discuss a set of text-dependent questions and to complete another journal entry
Text Passage under DiscussionDirections for Teachers/Guiding Questions For Students14 I would like to learn, or remember, how to live. Kumin and Stafford both use this theory to contrast the tone of dehumanization of man in each of their poems. Now that Dillard has become a more experience writer, she herself avoids these pitfalls fairly well. The author very carefully and cautiously chose what and where certain parts go or even what word is the best. In the short story "Living Like Weasels" authored by Annie Dillard, the role of a small, furry, brown-colored rodent's life develops an extreme significance as the story progresses. I'd never seen one wild before. Time and events are merely poured, unremarked, and ingested directly, like blood pulsed into my gut through a jugular vein. Twain views religion not as a path toward enlightenment, but as an excuse to butcher members of opposing faiths. Through Dillards realization, I came to understand Dillards core question: Could two live under the wild rose, and explore by the pond, so that the smooth mind of each is as everywhere present to the other, and as received and as unchallenged, as falling snow? (69). Outside, he rabbits, mice, muskrats, and birds, killing more stalks bodies than he can eat warm, and often dragging the carcasses home. It emptied our lungs. I come to Hollins Pond not so much to learn how to live as, frankly, to forget about it. Aside from this, it shows just how closely Dillard was tuned in to the weasel. Who knows what he thinks? What does a weasel think about? While taking time off, she intends to spiritually find her true self again and get back on a successful track. ! This story is only a small part of the events that would take place in Europe against Jews for years to come. Some books we loved and even reread many times, and others - well lets just say did not even finish. His face was fierce, small and pointed as a lizard's; he would have made a good arrowhead. They respond to Louvs appeal to pathos by feeling a deep, personal pain that their childhood pastimes are as antiquated as a nineteenth-century Conestoga wagon. By causing readers to feel antiquated, to relate to him, and to question their legacy, Louv stirs them to teach their children the same appreciation for nature they grew up with, if only to preserve their heritage. Using this dichotomy he further illustrates the severance of and between the hunter and the hunted. Combining a positive characteristic and its antithesis in a single sentence He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself, and cuts his throat if his theology isnt straightallows Twain to reveal inconsistencies within mankinds spotless, The movie I choose was Dances with Wolves. Their lack of care is what lead them to be so ruthless many times throughout the novel. Explain how the images. Then even death, where you're going no matter how you live, cannot you part. A lithe form slinked through the pristine snow, her paws going numb from the constant unbridling unsuccessful search of prey. 4 Twenty minutes from my house, through the woods by the quarry and across the highway, is Hollins Pond, a remarkable piece of shallowness, where I like to go at sunset and sit on a tree trunk. Its kind of ironic. Whether it means giving a speech in front of an audience or dancing on a stage, no one likes it. Ask the class to answer a small set of text-dependent guided questions and perform targeted tasks about the passage, with answers in the form of notes, annotations to the text, or more formal responses as appropriate. 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Conscious experience is a widespread phenomenon. In "Living like Weasels", author Annie Dillard uses rhetorical devices to convey that life would be better lived solely in a physical capacity, governed by "necessity", executed by instinct. What does she mean by "careless" in that sentence, and how is that reflected in the rest of the paragraph? [Reading intervening paragraphs.] Both essays urge readers to reflect on their experiences with nature and learn from what Mother Nature is showing them. We must consider whether any method will permit us to extrapolate to the inner life of the bat from our own case
Our own experience provides the basic material for our imagination, whose range is therefore limited. of the human and man-made in paragraphs 5 and 6. (MS7) She explains that a weasels living is one desire: instinct, a weasels tenacity to lock onto its prey and to not let go. 3. 4 Twenty minutes from my house, through the woods by the quarry and across the highway, is Hollins Pond, a remarkable piece of shallowness, where I like to go at sunset and sit on a tree trunk. Dillard endures great thought on this quick encounter, reflecting upon every possible meaning about the weasels sudden flee, but maybe her life would be simpler and less thought provoking if she were to act instinctively, and flee from things she didnt fully comprehend. I agree that Dillard earns for a simpler life. Expanding on readers pasts, Louv references the rapid technological changes that his readers went through during the globalization movement, changes that separated them from nature in the blink of an eye. Readers are invested in their parts and Louv uses their attraction to their childhood memories and dissatisfaction with the rapid. (Q5) What features of Hollins Pond does Dillard mention? 2. The far end is an alternating series of fields and woods, fields and woods, threaded everywhere with motorcycle tracksin whose bare clay wild turtles lay eggs. The she-cat shivered and paused for a moment to survey they area, her fellow clan-mates halted and watched her with weary appearances, each thin and poignant. two barbed wire fences. ! ! " Who knows what he thinks? Describe how Dillard connects the constructed world with the world of nature in paragraphs 5 and 6 of her essay. Rosser, a 19-year-old graduate of Central York High School says Central helped her along her college journey, the teachers at Central really cared for her and help her grow as a student and a person. Who knows what he thinks? We can live any way we want. She feared without the bold approach of grim situations and ridiculous characters, her audience would miss her true messages which she felt vitally needed to be understood. Nowlan portrays the idea that adversity is part of our lives, and this adversity shapes us as individuals. 6). When she sees the weasel Dillard says, "I've been in that weasel's brain for sixty seconds." His journal is tracks in clay, a spray of feathers, mouse blood and bone: uncollected, unconnected, loose leaf, and blown. This novel depicts a post-apocalyptic world where the United States has fallen into tremendous poverty. Day One: Instructional Exemplar for Dillards Living Like Weasels
Summary of Activities
(BEFORE Day One) Teacher introduces the essay with minimal commentary and has students read it for homework
(ON Day One) Teacher or skillful reader then reads the passage out loud to the class as students follow along in the text
Teacher asks the class to complete an introductory journal entry and discuss a set of text-dependent questions
For homework, teacher asks students to complete another journal entry
Text Passage under DiscussionDirections for Teachers/Guiding Questions For Students1 A weasel is wild. 1 See answer lavanyaande Advertisement Although Dillard's many passions influence her life incredibly, it is reading, however, that most molds her childhood worldview. Her last thought, run, makes me believe that Dillard is not completely comfortable with the idea that the Lord is her personal savior. In Shirley Jacksons novel, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, the speaker, Merricat, is an outsider of society on many levels, such as mental health, gender, and that she is an upper class citizen in a poor area. Dillard says, I once spent a full three minutes looking at a bullfrog that was so unexpectedly large I couldn't see it even though a dozen enthusiastic camper were shouting direction finally i ask what color am i looking for and a fellow said green at last i pick out the frog i saw what painters are up against the things wasn't green at all but the color of wet hickory bark(4). h>: 5CJ aJ hS In "Owls," Mary Oliver conveys the complexity of her response to nature through the use of imagery, juxtaposition, and highly complex syntax. 305-310. When she sees a weasel, she looks into the life of that weasel. I was stunned into stillness twisted backward on the tree trunk. The process of journaling brings to the fore the tension that Dillard is exploring in her essaychoosing to live like a weasel (in the moment and unreflective) while writing about that choice (in a highly reflective and self conscious way). Furthermore, the overall argument of this essay is not only eye-opening, but also persuasive considering that it leaves the reader with a life question; what standards am I living by? I was stunned into stillness twisted backward on the tree trunk. Which brings us back to the Wright is able to disregard the average day for humans and take a day to appreciate the true value of nature in its, Arguably his most powerful rhetorical strategy is a joint appeal to ethos and pathos. (Q10) When she sees the weasel Dillard says, I've been in that weasel's brain for sixty seconds. What did she find there? Teachers could also assign the prompt as an in-class essay, but also use the following day for peer-to-peer feedback. Then it took me past that place to somewhere I wasnt human at all, (195). Students should consistently be reminded to include textual evidence in their journals to back up their claims and avoid non-text based speculation (i.e. McKay emphasizes within the first three lines that the conflict at hand is not merely a struggle then, but a fierce hunt in which there is no mercy and only one survivor. Seize it and let it seize you up aloft even, till your eyes burn out and drop; let your musky flesh fall off in shreds, and let your very bones unhinge and scatter, loosened over fields, over fields and woods, lightly, thoughtless, from any height at all, from as high as eagles. For example when Hushpuppy got connected to nature she would hear a heartbeat or her mother talking to her. She wrote during The Modern literary period and through common speech and ordinary settings, OConnor presented comically unrealistic circumstances in hope of somehow portraying her concerns (1-2)., Placing two sharply contrasting paragraphs next to each other exemplifies the personification; after reading the first paragraph, simply didactic in style, the second paragraph bursts with imagery and gives the life to the swamp that the first paragraph failed in displaying. 6 So. Seize it and let it seize you up aloft even, till your eyes burn out and drop; let your musky flesh fall off in shreds, and let your very bones unhinge and scatter, loosened over fields, over fields and woods, lightly, thoughtless, from any height at all, from as high as eagles.1. In your journal, describe how that image contributes to your understanding of her overall message.Day Four: Instructional Exemplar for Dillards Living Like Weasels
Summary of Activities
Teacher asks the class to discuss a set of text-dependent questions and to complete their final journal entry
Teacher leads a discussion on students journal entries
Text Passage under DiscussionDirections for Teachers/Guiding Questions For Students1 A weasel is wild. He sleeps in his underground den, his tail draped over his nose. Sentence Syntax Task: On occasion students will encounter particularly difficult sentences to decode. and the juxtaposition of humans with "primal" animals within "The Damned Human Race." By taking characteristics generally considered to be superior aspects of humans, such as patriotism, religion and reason, and revealing . One naturalist refused to kill a weasel who was socketed into his hand deeply as a rattlesnake. "Living like Weasels" is a short essay, which describes Dillard's adventures in watching a weasel. Those characteristics can reveal some of the most exotic and inhumane feelings toward a certain object. Introduce journaling and have students complete their first entry: In your journal, write an entry on the first paragraph of Dillards essay describing what makes a weasel wild. Nowlan suggests this idea through the character, Stephen and his struggle to conform to authority or pursue his ideas which suggests that humans often bring about changes to themselves in order to adapt to the environment they live in. The appearance of her voice at this juncture foreshadows how Dillard will move later in the essay from factual descriptions to speculative observations (and finally to admonition). One about the vigorous natural world; the other about human relationships. This sets the stage for the intro. Taking place in a countryside home, W.W. Jacobss short story The Monkeys Paw illustrates the White familys two-day interaction with a seemingly innocent mummified monkey's paw. Change), You are commenting using your Facebook account. These birds were given the task of grabbing meat out of a tube with a choice of two tools, a hooked wire and a straight wire. Dillard portrays her disagreement with such notion by using story telling techniques to enchant and then preach the lessons she herself learns from nature. Reminiscing with readers, painting images of their childhoods, reminds parents of the beautiful, wonderful things they learned and memories they made while observing nature during car rides. Hollins Pond is also called Murray's Pond; it covers two acres of bottomland near Tinker Creek with six inches of water and six thousand lily pads. Unlike the rest of the group, he was highly intelligent and thought logically through the problems they endured. She and a hunting party of three warriors had been sent out to hunt hours ago, and yet still, the terrain seemed barren, devoid of a stable amount of prey to feed their clan. What comparisons does Dillard make to describe the weasel in paragraph 8? The cruel but alluring diction is done to illustrate Dillards fascination with the weasels willingness to cease from existence because of their commitment to its choices and lifestyle. Through her vivid and truly descriptive imagery, one may see emphasize and glorification to the way of life these little creatures live. Sometimes he lives in his den for two days without leaving. Dillard on the other side of the fence had a roast in the oven, lamb, and didnt like it too well done (101). What was the purpose of Dillard coming to Hollins Pond? ! As students move through these questions and reread Dillards Living Like Weasels, be sure to check for and reinforce their understanding of academic vocabulary in the corresponding text (which will be boldfaced the first time it appears in the text). Someone once mentioned "If you cannot change the world, then change your world." This section of the exemplar provides an explanation of the process . Both Anne Dillard and Gordon Grice develop a unique perspective on life based on their observations of nature in their essays Living Like Weasels and The Black Widow. In Living Like Weasels, Dillard meditates on the value and necessity of instinct and tenacity in human life. Wright sees the idea of nature and humans joining as one as a possible feat and he shows this though his written experience with these Indian ponies. In the novel, The Flamingo Rising, Larry Baker clearly shows that Louises identity is created more by the environment than by the individual. Following this, students may be given the opportunity to revisit their essay for homework. Teachers could end the discussion by pointing out that while the weasel doesnt think, it does keep a journal, segueing to that nights homework assignment
Homework: In your journal, write an entry describing the effect of seeing the weasel. Our sensible and above all, brave protagonist, Lauren Olamina, is the heart of the story. I cannot perform it either by imagining additions to my present experience, or by imagining segments gradually subtracted from it, or by imagining some combination of additions, subtractions, and modifications (The Philosophical Review, Vol. Living Like Weasles Annie Dillard Short-story from Annie Dillard's 1982 book, "Teaching a Stone to Talk." The text was written focusing on descriptive imagery and diction. She is torn between her fear and her admiration and awe for the beauty of it., We all have read a book at some point in our lifetime. (Q13) In paragraph 15, Dillard imagines going out of your ever-loving mind and back to your careless senses. What does she mean by careless in that sentence, and how is that reflected in the rest of the paragraph? I like how you point out the connection between Living Like Weasels and On a Hill Far Away. I startled a weasel who startled me, and we exchanged a long glance. A moment spent dwelling too long, is a moment wasted.
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