unit.1-Early.American.Literature!

ELAALRL3 The student deepens understanding of literary works by relating them to their contemporary context or historical background, as well as to works from other time periods.

1. This standard basically tells us that we're going to try to look deeper into literary works by relating them to our past, present,and future historical background & contemporary context;Including other time periods.

2. "We sang the songs that carried in their melodies all the sounds of nature -- the running waters, the sighing of winds, and the calls of the animals. Teach these to your children that they may come to love nature as we love it."

-Grand Council Fire of American Indians

3. If you don't understand what it's saying, it's just talking about how the Indians sang these certain songs together. These songs were about water, the whistling winds, and the calls of the animals around them. These songs made the Indians love nature more and more everytime they sang these songs. & the purpose of this quote is to encourage us to teach our children those same songs so that they could be brought up just as they were.

Georqia.Performance.Standards

ELAALRL1 The student demonstrates comprehension by identifying evidence (i.e., examples of diction, imagery, point of view, figurative language, symbolism, plot events and main ideas) in a variety of texts representative of different genres (i.e., poetry, prose [short story, novel, essay, editorial, biography], and drama) and using this evidence as the basis for interpretation.

I think this standard simply tells us that we're going to learn more about different literary terms & devices. Instead of using elementary terms, we use these more complicated/complex devices. & this could also expand our vocabulary...