Hills Like White Elephants

Learning Goal: Analyze a case in which grasping a point of view requires distinguishing what is directly stated in a text from what is really meant.


Today we will present your HILLS LIKE WHITE ELEPHANTS scripts and subtext - and apply what you learned to the learning goal above.  Then, we will, in groups, read and outline the informative background to the Unit on "Early American Writing 1600 - 1800".

Your outline should look like this:

Early American Writing

I. Historical Context
   A. The Meeting of Two Worlds
        1. Early writers described land and People
        2. Native Americans had well-established communities when Europeans arrived.

Note: The Roman Numbers should come from the title of each sections.  The capital letters from the subsections.  And the numbers from the notes you take under each subsection.

Good Luck!

Also - first vocabulary list:


Colloquial
Dotard
Furrow
Misnomer
Vilification
Atrophy
Misogynist
Vindicate
Attenuate
Drivel
Virulent