Grade 11: Unit 4, Small-Group Learning

Many wild creatures travel unerringly through the dark. And animals regularly respond to what we, even at our most attentive, cannot discern.

These histories create a temporal dimension in what is otherwise only a spatial landscape.

These histories create a temporal dimension in what is otherwise only a spatial landscape.

In Realism, a scene is depicted exactly as it appears.

Palette: range of colors used in a particular work

Perspective indicates the vantage point from which a scene is viewed.

My grandmother worried about my forward ways a great deal.

She had known slavery and to her my brazenness was unthinkable.

Hog Butcher for the World,
Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat,
Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight Handler;
Stormy, husky, brawling,
City of the Big Shoulders

And they tell me you are brutal and my reply is: On the faces of
women and children I have seen the marks of wanton hunger.

Come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud
to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning.

Foreground and background are usually determined by perspective, or a photographer's vantage point.

Despite apparent differences in dimensions, foreground and background are often equally important in a photograph.

Here are the tiers once filled with sleepers,

and their low laughter measured harmony or strife.

The house I left as a child now seems

a shell of sobs. Each year I dream it sinister
and dig in my heels to keep out the intruder
banging at the back door.

In the exercise yard
we sat huddled in our prison jackets,
on our haunches against the fence,
and the wind carried our words
over the fences,
while the vigilant guard on the tower
held his cap at the sudden gust.

My grandmother had a reverence for the sun, a holy regard that now is all but gone out of mankind.

As a child she had been to the Sun Dances; she had taken part in those annual rites, and by them she had learned the restoration of her people in the presence of Tai-me.