Work on "Passion" essays or Magic Realism stories. Hand in work at end of period.
If you are finished with this project, begin reading David Sedaris or Christopher Moore. Visit their websites (Christopher Moore's has games and lots of fun!)
Here are the links:
www.chrismoore.com/
www.npr.org/programs/specials/lists/sedaris/
Thursday, December 17, 2009
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Magical Realism
There have been some videos that show Magical Realism really well. Can you see any similarities?
Simply Irresistable
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNhbjTllZR4
Chocolat
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLAuf4-a0I4
Big Fish
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-d-kjzBmz6I
Today we are going to conclude Like Water for Chocolate.
Simply Irresistable
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNhbjTllZR4
Chocolat
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLAuf4-a0I4
Big Fish
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-d-kjzBmz6I
Today we are going to conclude Like Water for Chocolate.
Thursday, December 10, 2009
Finish Like Water for Chocolate
We will finish watching the movie on Friday.
Finish Reading Like Water for Chocolate. We will conclude the book with a final discussion on Tuesday.
Finish Reading Like Water for Chocolate. We will conclude the book with a final discussion on Tuesday.
Thursday, December 3, 2009
Mexican Traditions WallWisher
I looked through what you came up with in class to put on the wallwisher and I thought that you had some really interesting and relevant information!! You should take a look at some of the info your classmates found.
Nice job!!!
Thank you for participating on such activities! It is certainly noted. :-)
Ms. Moraites
Nice job!!!
Thank you for participating on such activities! It is certainly noted. :-)
Ms. Moraites
Passion Essay
In a well-developed personal informal essay of 3-5 pages, consider what are your passions. You can draw on anecdotal experience, readings, famous quotes from others, music lyrics, etc.
Consider this quote from Like Water for Chocolate as your "starting point" or inspiration:
"Each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by ourselves; just as in the experiment, we need oxygen and a candle to help. In this case, the oxygen, for example, would come from the breath of the person you love; the candle could be any kind of food, music, caress, word, or sound that engenders the explosion that lights one of the matches.” (115)
Consider this quote from Like Water for Chocolate as your "starting point" or inspiration:
"Each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by ourselves; just as in the experiment, we need oxygen and a candle to help. In this case, the oxygen, for example, would come from the breath of the person you love; the candle could be any kind of food, music, caress, word, or sound that engenders the explosion that lights one of the matches.” (115)
More about Like Water for Chocolate
Like Water for Chocolate's full title is: Like Water for Chocolate: A novel in monthly installments with recipes, romances and home remedies.
The phrase "like water for chocolate" comes from the Spanish "como agua para chocolate". This phrase is a common expression in some Spanish speaking countries and was the inspiration for Laura Esquivel's novel title (the name has a double-meaning). In some Latin American countries, such as Mexico, hot chocolate is made not with milk, but with water instead. Water is boiled and chunks of milk chocolate are dropped in to melt thus creating the hot chocolate. The saying "like water for chocolate," alludes to this fact and also to the common use of the expression as a metaphor for describing a state of passion or -sometimes- sexual arousal. In some parts of Latin America, the saying is also equivalent to being "boiling mad" in anger.[8]
This is the story of Tita (Lumi Cavazos), a young woman growing up during the Mexican Revolution. Tita lives with her mother and two sisters, Rosaura and Gertrudis, on a
large ranch; her father died shortly after her birth. As the youngest daughter of the family, Tita, by long-standing tradition, can never marry; it is her responsibility to care for her mother into old age. Tita is raised in the kitchen, learning to cook and take care of household responsibilities from early childhood, and she is aware of the family tradition. She falls in love anyway, with a young man named Pedro (Marco Leonardi). When Pedro asks for Tita's hand in marriage and is refused, he agrees to marry Rosaura instead -- so he can be near Tita, the true love of his life. Tita pours heartbreak and anger into her cooking, and her feelings are magically transferred to the rest of her family.
In literature, magic realism often combines the external factors of human existence with the internal ones. It is a fusion between scientific physical reality and psychological human reality. It incorporates aspects of human existence such as thoughts, emotions, dreams, cultural mythologies and imagination
http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/likewater/
http://www.salon.com/oct96/interview961104.html
An interview with the author...
SparkNotes
Like Water for Chocolate is a popular novel, published in 1989 by first-time Mexican novelist Laura Esquivel. The novelLaura Esquivel follows the story of a young girl named Tita who longs her entire life for her lover, Pedro, but can never have him because of her domineering mother's traditional belief that the youngest daughter must not marry but take care of her mother until the day she dies. Tita is only able to express her passions and feelings through her cooking, which causes the people who taste it to experience what she feels.The novel was originally published in Spanish as Como agua para chocolate and has been translated into thirty languages; there are over three million copies in print worldwide.
The novel makes heavy use of magical realism. The novel was made into a film in 1993.[4] It earned all 11 Ariel awards of the Mexican Academy of Motion Pictures, including the Ariel Award for Best Picture, and became the highest grossing foreign film ever released in the United States at the time.
Laura Esquivel Biography
Like Water for Chocolate (Criticism): Information and Much More ...
As a site for the crucial link between food and life, .... In Like Water for Chocolate, magic realism becomes an appropriate vehicle for the expression of ...
www.answers.com/topic/like-water-for-chocolate-novel
The phrase "like water for chocolate" comes from the Spanish "como agua para chocolate". This phrase is a common expression in some Spanish speaking countries and was the inspiration for Laura Esquivel's novel title (the name has a double-meaning). In some Latin American countries, such as Mexico, hot chocolate is made not with milk, but with water instead. Water is boiled and chunks of milk chocolate are dropped in to melt thus creating the hot chocolate. The saying "like water for chocolate," alludes to this fact and also to the common use of the expression as a metaphor for describing a state of passion or -sometimes- sexual arousal. In some parts of Latin America, the saying is also equivalent to being "boiling mad" in anger.[8]
This is the story of Tita (Lumi Cavazos), a young woman growing up during the Mexican Revolution. Tita lives with her mother and two sisters, Rosaura and Gertrudis, on a
large ranch; her father died shortly after her birth. As the youngest daughter of the family, Tita, by long-standing tradition, can never marry; it is her responsibility to care for her mother into old age. Tita is raised in the kitchen, learning to cook and take care of household responsibilities from early childhood, and she is aware of the family tradition. She falls in love anyway, with a young man named Pedro (Marco Leonardi). When Pedro asks for Tita's hand in marriage and is refused, he agrees to marry Rosaura instead -- so he can be near Tita, the true love of his life. Tita pours heartbreak and anger into her cooking, and her feelings are magically transferred to the rest of her family.
In literature, magic realism often combines the external factors of human existence with the internal ones. It is a fusion between scientific physical reality and psychological human reality. It incorporates aspects of human existence such as thoughts, emotions, dreams, cultural mythologies and imagination
http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/likewater/
http://www.salon.com/oct96/interview961104.html
An interview with the author...
SparkNotes
Like Water for Chocolate is a popular novel, published in 1989 by first-time Mexican novelist Laura Esquivel. The novelLaura Esquivel follows the story of a young girl named Tita who longs her entire life for her lover, Pedro, but can never have him because of her domineering mother's traditional belief that the youngest daughter must not marry but take care of her mother until the day she dies. Tita is only able to express her passions and feelings through her cooking, which causes the people who taste it to experience what she feels.The novel was originally published in Spanish as Como agua para chocolate and has been translated into thirty languages; there are over three million copies in print worldwide.
The novel makes heavy use of magical realism. The novel was made into a film in 1993.[4] It earned all 11 Ariel awards of the Mexican Academy of Motion Pictures, including the Ariel Award for Best Picture, and became the highest grossing foreign film ever released in the United States at the time.
Laura Esquivel Biography
Like Water for Chocolate (Criticism): Information and Much More ...
As a site for the crucial link between food and life, .... In Like Water for Chocolate, magic realism becomes an appropriate vehicle for the expression of ...
www.answers.com/topic/like-water-for-chocolate-novel
Mexican Traditions
Setting is an important element to this book. Laura Esquivel writes from what she knows. As she wades through this story about a woman who wants to seek out her passions, it is clear that she infuses her writing from her own background.
For more info on a biography of Laura Esquivel:
http://www.biography.com/articles/Laura-Esquivel-185854
Remember that Like Water for Chocolate is a flashback story. It begins and ends with the a woman telling the story of her great aunt Tita. This present day setting acts as a frame through the story.
The bulk of the story revolve around a young girl, Tita, fighting against the traditions and issues that are relevant during the turn of the twentieth century in Mexico.
So, what are those traditions?
I'd like you to work together to find background information about these five topics:
Food
Fabrics
Family/Women’s Role
Mexican Revlution/Flag
Cultural Rituals – Religion/Tradition
Each of you should find one fact or website or youtube video about each of these topics and your contributions here:
http://wallwisher.com/wall/likewaterforchoc
So, the question is, How does YOUR background influence your writing?
Continue to work on your second person short story. If you are finished, begin to work on either:
1. An essay about your passions
or
2. A story in which you try your hand at magical realism
As you begin to think about your next projects of writing about your passions or creative magical realism stories, your stories will be infused with your background. How can you elaborate on that and make it uniquely you?
Food is an important aspect in Mexican culture. What is important in YOUR background? How can you use that, like Laura Esquivel, to stabilize your and focus your writing?
Ms. Moraites
For more info on a biography of Laura Esquivel:
http://www.biography.com/articles/Laura-Esquivel-185854
Remember that Like Water for Chocolate is a flashback story. It begins and ends with the a woman telling the story of her great aunt Tita. This present day setting acts as a frame through the story.
The bulk of the story revolve around a young girl, Tita, fighting against the traditions and issues that are relevant during the turn of the twentieth century in Mexico.
So, what are those traditions?
I'd like you to work together to find background information about these five topics:
Food
Fabrics
Family/Women’s Role
Mexican Revlution/Flag
Cultural Rituals – Religion/Tradition
Each of you should find one fact or website or youtube video about each of these topics and your contributions here:
http://wallwisher.com/wall/likewaterforchoc
So, the question is, How does YOUR background influence your writing?
Continue to work on your second person short story. If you are finished, begin to work on either:
1. An essay about your passions
or
2. A story in which you try your hand at magical realism
As you begin to think about your next projects of writing about your passions or creative magical realism stories, your stories will be infused with your background. How can you elaborate on that and make it uniquely you?
Food is an important aspect in Mexican culture. What is important in YOUR background? How can you use that, like Laura Esquivel, to stabilize your and focus your writing?
Ms. Moraites
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Like Water for Chocolate
For today, you were to read up through July. We have already talked about what Magical Realism is. If you weren't here last class and didn't get the handout, please come see me to get one.
I'd like you to comment and answer the following question:
Using any other outside texts or films that you have read and Laura Esquivel's Like Water for Chocolate, what do you notice about the genre of Magical Realism? Pull out 2-3 examples that really stuck you from Like Water for Chocolate that represents this type of genre.
PS) No additional reading assignment for Thursday. (You should be read through July.)
FINISH YOUR SECOND PERSON SHORT STORIES!!
Ms. Moraites
I'd like you to comment and answer the following question:
Using any other outside texts or films that you have read and Laura Esquivel's Like Water for Chocolate, what do you notice about the genre of Magical Realism? Pull out 2-3 examples that really stuck you from Like Water for Chocolate that represents this type of genre.
PS) No additional reading assignment for Thursday. (You should be read through July.)
FINISH YOUR SECOND PERSON SHORT STORIES!!
Ms. Moraites
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