Pennsylvania Voices Book X
Writing Based On History: Techniques to develop independent writers through history involve strategies to reach the writers via conversations that lead to writing process abilities
By Maryann Pasda DiEdwardo
“Be the change you want to see in the world.” Ghandi
My strengths come from the greater glory of God, faith that is unwavering, and devotion to the fine arts.
For my family
Contents
About Writing
Essays
Techniques to develop independent writers through history involve
strategies to reach the writers via conversations that lead to writing
process abilities
Historiography
Sample Chapter from The Fourth R
Glossary
About the Author
About Writing
To write, we engage memories of readings, life experiences and imagination. Accordingly, these three patterns compose voice on the written page. Writing comes to us early in life as we experience the need to communicate. Beyond the early experiences in schooling, we continue to write. Unknown to most, writing is a habit that takes the form of digital email or the shopping list. But, writing is an essential like skill needed for human dignity.
Voice creates thesis. Use third person with a combination of elements to write a strong argumentative position based thesis: three elements of language such as diction, voice, syntax, paired with an active verb to show analysis, an element of literary skill such as fiction, drama, poetry, and add a primary source or author. For instance, Shakespeare utilizes voice, diction and syntax in the monologues of Hamlet to create characterization
Ultimately, painting and writing are personal journeys determined by the mind, spirit, emotional ability to try to find voices and to hear the inner voices and listen. Therefore, creators listen to their own voices first. The letter is the most vital part of our writing process as we communicate important data. Letters are prose or straight forward language with sentences and compositions in plain English. We touch upon different types of prose in our writing segment of the healing process since the words that generate the most healing are usually those that come from our inner core that we think through in plain English or in our native language. All writers whether they are youngsters of the age of two or the elderly have vital voices in their selected language. Therefore, we believe that the school system should be practical and teach multi linguistically. The thought process shall be respected and cherished as the paramount feature of the human mind. All learning and healing starts with the dignity of the mind and the language most understandable. Writing, an art, is a necessary endeavor natural for the growth of human intelligence. The artistic creative part of each individual must be nurtured as a natural course of education. Art can be taught to the young child as is reading and mathematics. Ideally, art should be sighted as just as vital a subject for develop of life skills.
Essays
Essays have central theses. Design main theses in the introductions usually as the last sentences, topic sentences in developmental paragraphs with concluding statements in all paragraphs and details to support as well as concluding statement paragraphs.
Sentence Outline Example:
Troy Outline
I. Introduction. Thesis Statement: Over the centuries, people’s fascination with Homer’s Troy has spurred them to action, from conquest to poetry, from myth to science.
II. A summary of the Iliad. Topic Sentence: At first glance, one may wonder how the story of Troy could have fascinated so many people, but it is easier to see when one has gained a true appreciation of this great literary work.
III. The fascination with Homer’s Troy. Topic Sentence: The infatuation with Troy has gripped many people, both famous and ordinary, from ancient to modern times.
IV. Heinrich Shleimann’s investigations. Topic Sentence: Heinrich Schleimann’s nearly insane obsession with Troy led him to take drastic measures: digging it up.
V. Later archeological discoveries. Topic Sentence: The archeologists after Schleimann used more organized scientific (and less damaging) methods to preserve and learn more about Troy.
VI. Conclusion. Topic Sentence: Troy has managed to survive nearly every ordeal, from earthquakes and fire to Schleimann’s reckless excavations, and still manages to enthrall people today.
Introduction
Troy. Trojan War. These words have tickled the ears and imaginations of many for millennia. People who have never even seen Troy have fallen in love with the ancient city; its captivating nature is so great. This is the city that Homer wrote about in his famous epic, The Iliad. This is the city that so fascinated Heinrich Schliemann, the man who began the first archeological excavations of Troy. This small city, that lies upon the northwest corner of Turkey, has been the inspiration of artists, writers, rulers, military commanders, et cetera. Yet, this city has also caused great controversy. Many have wondered, was there really a Trojan War? And even, before it was proven true, was there really a Troy? Perhaps it is this very controversy that has caused Troy to be so captivating. Those who believe in Troy and the Trojan War cannot only believe passively; they must fight for their love against those who would try to disprove it. They must have a passion for Troy. Over the centuries, people’s fascination with Homer’s Troy has spurred them to action, from conquest to poetry, from myth to science.
Sample Essay Draft One
The Elements of Composition in the Art of Pocahontas
Maryann Pasda DiEdwardo Ed.D.
The elements of composition in the art of Pocahontas include line, form, space, color or tone and texture as well as symbolic imagery and style. Visibly different, from varied periods of history, two particular pieces from Dr.Edward Gallagher’s online gallery of Pocahontas art reveal how elements of composition change our views of the young woman. Interestingly, an engraving entitled Pocahontas by Simon van de Passe (1616) {Illustration #1 in the digital gallery collection of 155 Pocahontas illustrations selected by Dr. Edward Gallagher) and an oil painting by Howard Chandler Christy (#148 in the same digital gallery collection) also entitled Pocahontas (1911) provide contrasting views of the famous young Powhatan woman known as Pocahontas through the artists’ unique applications of the elements of composition.
Simon van de Passe uses line to create form in an oval space with only black and white in his engraving. A skilled draftsman, Simon employs portrait art technique as style in the design of the face of the young woman. A stiff woman sits in the center of an oval as the only image. In Pocahontas Her Life and Legend, William M. S. Rasmussen and Robert S. Tilton explain that “Simon van de Passe depicted ‘Matoaka als Rebecka’ in a 1616 engraving and so provided the only likeness contrived during her lifetime, though this portrayal may be unrepresentational because it gives us the daughter of ‘Powhatan Emperour of Attanoughkomouck’ as the Virginia Company, her sponsor, and the artist wanted her to be seen” (Rasmussen and Tilton 10). A static image centers the pictorial plane with no emotion or background. She seems to be unaware of her surrounding. Historically, the most interesting feature of the work may be the recorded fact that Simon van de Passe’s engraved portrait is the only known portrait of Pocahontas rendered from life (Nova. Pocahontas Revealed). A recent NOVA film notes that the inscription describes her as the daughter of a mighty emperor, and the ostrich feather in her hand is a symbol of royalty (Nova. Pocahontas Revealed). Smithsonian Institution remarks that “This engraved portrait of Pocahontas, created from life during her time in England, is the oldest work in the National Portrait Gallery’s collection. Pocahontas, who took the Christian name Rebecca, sailed to England with husband John Rolfe in 1616” (Smithsonian). Clearly, for the artist Simon van de Passe, the elements of composition reveal a historically accurate approach in his engraving to show a particular view of Pocahontas.
In juxtaposition to the lack of emotion or passion of Pocahontas found in the Simon van de Passe engraving of 1616, we visit the beautiful yet emotional Pocahontas of Howard Chandler Christy (illustration #148 in the online collection) who depicts Pocahontas through a six foot oil painting with much more exuberance. Through vibrant color, line and form become a duality that exist in the landscape as stylistic features of a symbolic imagery filled space. “His ‘Christy Girl’ took the fashionable look and independent character of the Gibson Girl” and replaced some of the dignity of the latter with an increase in youthful sensuousness” (Rasmussen and Tilton 45). “She is clearly resisting” her English suitor (Rasmussen and Tilton 46). The left side of the painting shows nature with color contrasts surrounding an open armed young figure while the right side of the painting depicts darker and tighter compositional geometric patterns hovering around the male figure who kneels while holding her stiff hand. Style is the controlling element of composition for Christy as all the other techniques coincide to create a wonderful melody of art and message. Pocahontas, nature, and the dark male figure, join in a world of artistic and stylistic beauty.
The elements of line of the first piece, Pocahontas by Simon van de Passe (1616) {Illustration #1 in the digital gallery collection of 155 Pocahontas illustrations selected by Dr. Edward Gallagher) directly contrast the elements of color and style of the oil painting by Howard Chandler Christy (#148 in the same digital gallery collection) also entitled Pocahontas (1911). Invention becomes style for Christy as he took the character of Pocahontas and created a new American icon through imagery and style. Christy’s image portrays the first historical stage toward an apotheosis of an “American Girl.” (The Invention of the Western Film 78).
Works Cited
Pamphlet of Exhibition
Rasmussen, William M.S. and Tilton, Robert S. Pocahontas, Her Life and Legend.
Richmond: Virginia Historical Society, 1994.
Articles
Rasmussen, William. American Art Review. 1994. December. Online. Available. Access Date May 14 2008. http://www.askart.com/AskART/artists/search/Search_Grid.aspx?searchtype=PERIODICALS&artist=23477
Books
Simmon, Scott. The Invention of the Western Film, A Cultural History of the Genre’s First Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. http://books.google.com/books?id=EN64jzq4Q3AC&pg=PA78&lpg=PA78&dq=pocahontas+chandler+christy&source=web&ots=ztlE7pIUoD&sig=j3sva9IILZIFOIIZ8uFlGedxnE0&hl=en
Web Sites
Nova. Pocahontas Revealed. This Web site was produced for PBS Online by
WGBH.Web site © 1996-2007 WGBH Educational Foundation. Online Available.
Access Date May 14, 2008. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/pocahontas/
Smithsonian Source. Resources for Teaching American History. “Primary Sources”.
“Pocahontas Engraving”. Smithsonian Center for Education and Museum Studies.
Online. Available. Access Date May 14, 2008. http://www.smithsoniansource.org/display/primarysource/viewdetails.aspx?PrimarySourceId=1199
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