Deep Survival
By Laurence Gonzales
12 ways to keep you alive
Perceive, believe
Stay calm
Celebrate your
Count your
successes
blessings
Believe that you
will succeed
Surrender
Think/Analyze/plan
Play
Do whatever is
necessary
Take correct,
decisive action
See the beauty
Never give up
The Bass, the River, and the
Sheila mant
Short story by W.DWetherell
Setting
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Summer
New England Town
River
Narrator: 14 yrs. old at the story’s beginning, loved
fishing for largemouth bass, has a crush on Sheila Mant,
spends his time trying to get up enough courage to ask
Sheila for a date
• Sheila Mant: 17 yrs. old, family is renting the cottage
next to his family’s, doesn’t know the narrator exists,
talks constantly of older college boys, upper class
Plot
EXPOSITION
– Describes the setting and narrator’s obsession with Sheila
(Introduces the internal conflict)
– Describes Sheila and her suitors
– Asks Sheila to a dance
– Takes his canoe and fishing rod
RISING ACTION
Narrator desperately tries to conceal the rod with the big bass
as Sheila chatters away, having absolutely no idea what is
going on
CLIMAX
The narrator cuts the line
FALLING ACTION
Sheila rides home with a college boy
Resolution
Older, reflective narrator says it was a hard choice and a mistake
he has never repeated.
CONFLICT
• Internal
– Narrator struggles
with his courage to
ask Sheila to the
dance
– He struggles
between his desire
to catch the bass
and his desire for
Sheila
• External
– Narrator’s physical
struggle with the
bass
– Narrator’s verbal
struggle to keep
Sheila ignorant of
the bass
What if everyone were the same?
By Kurt Vonnegut JR.
Harrison Bergeron
AVERAGE
CHARACTER
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Harrison Bergeron
George Bergeron
Hazel Bergeron
Diana Moon Glampers
CONFLICT
HARRISON
V.S
U.S SOCIETY
1. Everyday Use
Pages 44~59
• What makes something Valuable?
•  an old watch from your father may be precious to you,
but to others, it may be considered as junk
• This “value” is mentioned because in the story, there are
conflicts between the mother and two daughters
depending on what kind of values they have.
In the story…
• Characters: Mom(narrorator), Dee(Wangero), Maggie
• Setting: Burnt house, moved to a new house, Dee comes home
with a man named Hakim-a-barber
• Main conflict:
Dee takes things she likes from the house and when she asks for
quilts from grandma, mother refuses b/c she promised to give them
to Maggie.
Seeing this fight, Maggie says that Dee could have it. She always
gives in to her sister.
But! Mom takes the quilts and throws them into Maggie’s laps and
Dee just goes out furiously.
• Resolution:
Mom and Maggie smile and spend the rest of the time just
enjoying.
Reading for
information
Alice Walker
on Quilting
2. Searching For
Summer
Pages 60~73
• What do you take for granted?
 Air, Water
• This is mentioned b/c in the story, it is a world where
there is almost no sunlight. This means that we are
taking the sunlight for granted. But since sunlight is so
scarce, it is very important for these people
In the story…
• Characters: Lily, Tom, their relatives, Mr. Noakes, Mrs. Hatching,
William(blind son)
• Setting/Background: a world where sunlight is very scarce, Lily
and Tom get married and they leave for a honeymoon and look for
sunlight.
• Plot: On their way, their scooter goes wrong, so they stop. They
meet Mr. Noakes, who is the owner of the pub. He makes fun of
them because they said they were looking for sun. Lily finds out that
an old lady left her bag, and they decide to return it to her. ~~
• Resolution: Tom and Lily decides to leave Mrs. Hatching’s cottage
safe and unknown, and they leave from that town.
THE END.
The Johnstown Flood
• Charaters: Gertrude, James Quinn, Aunt Abbie,
Libby Hipp, Maxwell McArchren, and the
children.
• Setting: Johnstown, 1889
• Mood: Urgent → imminent → despair →relieved
→ disappointed
The Johnstown Flood
• Plot
-The Quinn family starts to run for their lives after seeing the wave coming.
-Aunt Abbie and Libby Hipp went back into the house because Gertrude did
not wanted to put her feet in dirty water.
-The three ladies waited in the highest floor of the house praying for god to
save them.
-The big house get swallowed by the wave and only Gertrude gets out of
the house.
-Trembling from the fear, she met a group of people dangling on the long
roof, but only one man jumped to save her and reached her while the
rest of the people met a whirlpool.
-They met a rescue team, and Gertrude’s companion threw her to them.
-A lot of people came to see her, but no one was her family, so she was
sent to live with the Metz family.
Nine-year –old Amber Colvin Rides Out a
Killer Flood in Ohio
The race to save Apollo 13
• Characters:
• Setting: April of 1970, in the space
• Mood: imminent, anxious
The race to save Apollo 13
• Setting:
-After the astronauts go out in the space, they face a
technical problem and decide to cancel the land on the
Moon
-Electricity, Oxygen, Water, and heat almost runs out, so
the the spaceship combines with the lunar module-life
raft.
-The Apollo 13 rotates to start off to the way back to the
earth, and the rocket burns out the back side of the
moon.
-They made a successful failure.