Muir Graphic Organizer A PDF

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This is for module 6 of the Hon English in the Florida Virtual School Program....

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Muir Graphic Organizer A What does Muir accomplish in the paragraph?

Paragraph 1:

Quotations: Select phrases Muir uses to describe nature in the paragraph.

Muir is thrilled to be exploring in nature. The words "rejoicing, reveling, and glorying" are words that show his enjoyment of nature and how much he appreciates it.

Naturalists observe nature and study how natural elements connect. Muir formally lists the trees he encounters and then describes himself interacting with the natural environment, "Rejoicing in their bound wealth and strength and beauty…"

Muir’s words, “great tamarac and arborvitae swamps”, indicates that the swamp is most likely dangerous and gloomy.

The paragraph tells how Muir uses his words to describe the swamp he is traveling through and how he sees it as a naturalist.

Muir describes the flower as “spiritual” “The flower was and with the “utmost white and made the purity”. This tells us impression of the that his feelings utmost purity” towards this specific flower are very “the most spiritual of strong, because he all the flower people” had searched for it for so long. After he “beautiful Calypso…” finally found it, he cried.

Muir is so happy to find the flower and feels so strongly about how pure and beautiful it is that he cries. This shows how much dedication he has out in to find this plant and how passionate he is about it. He trekked through hard

"rejoicing in their bound wealth and strength and beauty"

Muir lists the species he encountered on "reveling in their his trip to study flowers" plants in their natural region. "glorying in the fresh cool beauty and charm"

Paragraph 2:

“The rarest and most beautiful of the flowering plants”

Muir tells the story of his first big excursion “great tamarac and and describes the arbor-vitae swamps” flower he is looking for. “broad heaps of fallen trees” Paragraph 3: Muir finds the flower he has searched for, Calypso, and describes where he found it and how happy he was to find it.

How do his words How does the show his relationship paragraph illustrate with nature? naturalism?

conditions just to find a flower, like a true dedicated naturalist. Paragraph 4: Muir expresses his thoughts for the flower, and he also reminisces on his time at university and someone he knew. Paragraph 5: Muir tells how sat beside the flower for a long time, until he was hungry and very tired, and how he then trekked back threw the swamp and found a house with someone in it. That person then described how awful the swamp is. Paragraph 6: Muir describes how his trip back was and how he would get bread from the farmers he came across on his journey. He also describes how he was now so close with nature that he welcomed “storms, thunderclouds and winds”.

“frail and lovely a plant” (I could not find any other ones)

“maple woods on a hill” “muckle, cauld, dreary bog” “that awfu’ swamp”

“a long wild fertile mile” “free as the winds” “widely scattered clearings”

His words in this paragraph show how amazed he is by this flower and how in awe he is of it.

Muir is in awe of how much power this flower holds over him even though it is so “frail and lovely”. This gets us, and him thinking of the philosophy of plants.

Again, he is describing how musty and gloomy the swamp was that he had trekked through. This again shows his dedication to the flower because he worked so hard to find it.

This flower that he has searched so long to find, and gone through so much just for a flower, shows that to him, it is not just a flower. It is everything, it is pure, it is beautiful, it is THE flower.

At this point, Muir has been in the outdoors so long, that he begins to embrace and welcome everything about it, the bad weather, the plants, and anything about it, and treat it as a friend.

Muir has been in nature so long, that he starts to personify it, give it a personality and welcome it as a friend....