Johnston, Ian. “On Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude.” Johnstonia. May 1999.27 March 2007 <http://www.mala.bc.ca/~johnstoi/introser/marquez.HTM>.

This article was about five diffent topics. Since I am doing my paper on magical realism I chose to look at the section that consisted of magical realism. The author claims that the "comedic" side of the book is interesting and it leaves the reader wanting more. Johnston gives various examples of how the story is comedic. Johnston claims that the town of Macondo is not real at all, it is all magical. He claims that we receive no mental picture of it. Lastly the magical realism keeps us "on edge." I truly agree with Johnston on this, as the reader, I was always "expecting the unexpected."

Simpkins, Scott. “Magical Strategies: The Supplement of Realism.” Twentieth CenturyLiterature. 34.2(1988): 140-154.JSTOR. St. Xavier U. Chicago, IL. 27 March 2007<http://links.jstor.org/>

This author talks basically of the times when magical realism took place. In other words it gives specifics. He also claims that what seems real to us is abnormal to the inhabitants of Macondo and vice versa. He alsom compares the magical realism to that of other great works, ones I've never read.

Hart, Stephen M. "Magical Realism in the Americas: Politicised Ghosts in One Hundred Years of Solitude , The House of the Spirits , and Beloved."Vol.9.2 (2003): 115-123
Academic Search Premier. Loyola U Lib. Chicago, IL. 29 March 2007

This author focuses not only on the town of Macondo, but of the actual magical acts. Hart states that what we would consider abnormal in this world, as Hart refers to it, "First World" is normal to them. What we se as normal is abnormal to them. The author of this article goes to Marquez's history to explain his motives for the magical realism. He goes even further, by explaining why Marquez used that magical realism. Hart, overall, compares One Hundred Years of Solitude with two other books.

The Necessity of the Literary Tradition: Gabriel García Márquez's "One-Hundred Years of Solitude" (in International English)
James C. Jupp
The English Journal, Vol. 89, No. 3, Our History, Ourselves. (Jan., 2000), pp. 113-115.
Stable URL: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0013-8274%28200001%2989%3A3%3C113%3ATNOTLT%3E2.0.CO%3B2-A

The author review the specifics of magicla realism. It says that it is more as a fantasy thatn realism. The author goes in depth in that side of the sprectrum. He feels that the magical realism was very necessary to the plot of the story he claims that the magicla realism brought out who the charcters really were. Lastly it kept the reader entertained.

Play and Playfulness in García Márquez' "One Hundred Years of Solitude"
Enrique A. Giordano
Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature, Vol. 42, No. 4. (1988), pp. 217-229.
Stable URL: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0361-1299%281988%2942%3A4%3C217%3APAPIGM%3E2.0.CO%3B2-Y

This author claims it to be funny and "playful" as the title of the article suggests. It goes a little more in depth than the others.

ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR THE SOURCES I DIDN'T EVEN USE

Brooks, Gary. Literature Board Games. 1997.A to Z Teacher Stuff. March 29, 2007< http://www.atozteacherstuff.com/pages/487.shtml>

We really didn't use this website at all. It did not help us in ANY form or manner. We thought of our own plans. We did not need a website. Well this plan consisted of making a board game. After reading the book, the students have to remember the adventures of the protagonists. This will help students remember important themes and scenes of the book. We thought of a similar idea. In the sense that we also thought of a game. Let us remind you that we did not need this website, we thought of it on our own, but we conclude that this could have been a good idea as well.

The Project.2007. Founding Principles. March 29,2007 <http://www.favoritepoem.org/theproject/index.html>

This website provided us with absolutely nothing. We just used this website because it was required. We did not think of doing a poem at all, it did not even cross our mind, but here it is. Imaginary Use: We incorporated the thoughts of this website along with ours, it was an awesome website!! A poem WOULD HAVE been a good idea, but we went along with our own ideas. We were creative and thought of such things as a mobile or powerpoint.

THIRD LESSON PLAN THINGY

Lesson Plan
ActivityDate: March 28th, 2007
Lesson: One HUndred Years Of Solitude
Duration: 1 Class Period
Purpose: To Review Book Materials Needed and Knowledge
Objective: To review book and to gain insight
Procedures: Get into groups of four When answer is known 1 person must raise hand If answers correct team will receive points, if wrong, question is up 4 grabs, but team will lose points if wrong
Assessment: Winners will receive candy

TECHNOLOGY LESSON PLAN(I'M WORKING WITH AURORA)

Thursday, March 29, 2007
AssignmentDate: March 29, 2007
Lesson: One Hundred Years Of Solitude
Duration: Three Class Periods
Purpose: To have the students identify the different time periods of technology
Student's Will...
Go through the book and search for the technology of the book
Analyze what era the technology is from
Create a powerpoint based on their findings
Materials Needed:
"One Hundred Years Of Solitude" book
powerpoint
Objectives:
Students will discover the different time periods of technology
Procedure:
Review Book to search for any technology
Write findings down and search for the era when technolgy was invented
Create a powerpoint separating your findings into different time periods/eras
Assessment:
Each slide is worth 4 points

HANDS-ON ACTIVITY/LESSON PLAN

Date: March 25, 2007
Lesson: One Hundred Years of Solitude
Duration: 3 days to complete assignment
Purpose: To teach students how to point out important scenes and relate them to an important theme in the story.

Materials Needed:
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Metal coat hangers
Index Cards
Crayons/Markers/Color Pencils
String
Objectives
Students will be able to identify important themes and relate them to scenes.
Students will enhance their writing skills by writing a paragraph on each theme and each scene.
Procedures
Point out seven themes in the story.
Point out seven scenes in the story that relate to the seven themes that were picked.
Draw each scene on an index card and on the backside label the theme the scene represents and write a paragraph explaining how the scene represents that theme.
Hang each index card from the hanger with string.
Assessment
Fourteen points for theme and explanation
Ten points for creativity/neatness


Rubric


Did student relate and explain theme with scene properly?

14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 5 5 4 3 2

1

Did student show creativity/neatness?

10 9 8 7 6 5
4 3 2 1


Total_______/ 24

MEANINGFUL PASSAGE JOURNAL

A meaningful passage in the book is when Aureliano and Amaranta Ursula experience love. They expericence love throughout chapters nineteen and twenty.

" Since the afternoon of their first love, Aureliano and Amaranta Ursula had continued taking advantage of her husband's rare unguarded moments, making love with gagged ardor in chance meetings and almost always interrupted by unexpected returns. But when they saw themselves alone in the house they succumbed to the delirium of lovers who were making up for lost time. It was mad passion, unhinging, which made Fernanda's bones tremble with horror in her grave and which kept them in a state of perpetual excitement...they lost their sense of reality, the notion of time, the rhythm of daily habits...and both of them remained floating in an empty universe where the only everyday and eternal reality was love."

Nothing absolutely nothing could diminish the love they had for each other. Their house was falling apart, but they did not care. They were very poor and very hungry, but that just strengthened their love. The fact that Amaranta Ursula was married did not stop them, they just simply did their mischevious acts behind his back. Lastly, the fact that they knew they were related did not stop them from loving each other in that manner. This is a really meaningful passage because this is the first form of love within the family. I'm not saying it's the correct way to love a family member but it was the first form of love that ws present between two family members. I know that Amaranta really loved her brother Colonel Aureliano Buendia, but he didn't even care for her that much, he didn't even love her. In the case of Aureliano and Amaranta Ursula the love was returned by both parties. Going even further they had the first child that was created out of true love. The baby that they had was the last Buendia and he died the way Melquiades' had predicted. If the baby had not died I guess the Buendias would have kept on living, or Marquez would have had to create a different ending. Perhaps an alternate ending could have been naming the child what Amaranta Ursula had wanted, Rodrigo. So does that mean that true love had to occur to end the miserable solitude of the Buendias? And supposedly Macondo and the solitude of the Buendia's is supposed to be wiped out of memory when Aureliano finishes reading the parchment, is that literally true? If not, won't Aurelino be living in solitude again?

CONNECTION JOURNAL

One of the main themes in One Hundred Years of Solitude is identity and the search for it. We can connect this with another work of literature. Identity is major theme in Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes as well. In Don Quixote, Don Quixote creates his own identity and believes he is truly what he imagines he is. He is so convinced that he is a knight, that he convinces others he is a knight. He applies to what he has read in fictious books to the real world, and that helps him develop his identity. Since he thinks he is a knight he forces himself to play and follow that role.
In One Hundred Years of Solitude each persons' identity is based on the ancestor who has the same name. For example all of the Jose Arcadios have to be strong and tall. While all the Aurelianos have to be passive and engaged in Melquiades' parchements. The family already knew that they had to act the way the other Jose Arcadios and Aurelianos acted, it was expected of them. In other words each character is bound to an identity, they do not have their own. The author illustrates this by giving the characters the same names. Another example can be Amaranta Ursula, the author says that she is small just like Ursula. Amaranta Ursula has that name already and she has to act like Ursula, depriving Amaranta Ursula of her own identity.
The only difference between Don Quixote and One Hundred Years of Solitude is that in Don Quixote, Don Quixote gives himself his title. Whereas in One Hundred Years of Solitude the characters titles are given to them. All in all the connection is pretty solid. Don Quixote and all the characters in One Hundred Years of Solitude have a title they have to fulfill. They fulfill it and by doing that they are deprived of their own natural identity. We never truly find out what each character would have been like if they did not have designated titles.
One Hundred Years of Solitude can also be connected with The Fall of the House of Usher. This may sound a little weird, because The Fall of the House of Usher is a "horror story" and One Hundred Years of Solitude is not. The connection traces back to identity. In The Fall of the House of Usher, Roderick Usher's identity is that of his sister. In a sense their identities are overlapping and the same but they are two different people. They are overlapping because Roderick sleeps right above the vault where Madeline is in and he dies on top of Madeline. The two characters act the same and even look the same, even though one is a male and one is a female. Like in One Hundred Years of Solitude, the characters all act and look like their family members, but of course are different people. Roderick and Madeline have the same identity and the characters in One Hundred Years of Solitude have the same identity of their family members.