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Sunday, May 19, 2013
Online Review
Follow the directions on your paper. You are to keep track of your scores on each of the activities. This will be collected each day. Click here for score sheet .
#1. http://www.quia.com/quiz/449371.html
#2. http://www.shsu.edu/~txcae/Powerpoints/prepostest/authorpovpostest.html
#3. http://www.quia.com/quiz/259834.html
#4. http://www.tv411.org/reading/understanding-what-you-read/strategies-better-reading
#5. http://www.tv411.org/reading/understanding-what-you-read/scanning-specifics
#6. http://freerice.com/#/english-vocabulary/1370
#7. http://www.vocabulary.co.il/antonyms/high-school/pick-the-antonym-college-prep-words/
#1. http://www.quia.com/quiz/449371.html
#2. http://www.shsu.edu/~txcae/Powerpoints/prepostest/authorpovpostest.html
#3. http://www.quia.com/quiz/259834.html
#4. http://www.tv411.org/reading/understanding-what-you-read/strategies-better-reading
#5. http://www.tv411.org/reading/understanding-what-you-read/scanning-specifics
#6. http://freerice.com/#/english-vocabulary/1370
#7. http://www.vocabulary.co.il/antonyms/high-school/pick-the-antonym-college-prep-words/
Friday, April 19, 2013
Week of April 22nd
Narrative Poetry ... Sage Francis "The Best of Times"
Student song choices
Odes "Ode to my Socks" and "Ode to the Answers in the Back of the Math Book"
Current Event Poem: Choose a current event article
POSTERS and VIDEO NOTES
Alliteration
Personification
Allusion
Hyperbole
Student song choices
Odes "Ode to my Socks" and "Ode to the Answers in the Back of the Math Book"
Current Event Poem: Choose a current event article
POSTERS and VIDEO NOTES
Alliteration
Personification
Allusion
Hyperbole
Sunday, April 14, 2013
Poetry Flocabulary
Flocabulary - Allusion
Allusion Examples in Rap
I’m full strength like a Cyclops‘s eye drops,
I got support like high-tops.
- Ugly Duckling, Left Behind.
I got support like high-tops.
- Ugly Duckling, Left Behind.
“The side lines is lined with casualties
Who sip the life casually, then gradually become worse
Don’t bite the apple, Eve” -Jay-Z
Who sip the life casually, then gradually become worse
Don’t bite the apple, Eve” -Jay-Z
“Now who’s the boss? Not Tony Danza.” -Malik B of the Roots
“Coming from the deep black like the Loch Ness,
now bring apocalypse like the Heart of Darkness.” - Talib Kweli
now bring apocalypse like the Heart of Darkness.” - Talib Kweli
“My rep grows like the nose of Pinocchio,
Just because I’ve mastered the art of braggadocio.” -Akrobatik
Just because I’ve mastered the art of braggadocio.” -Akrobatik
“This is the point of no return and nobody can stop it
Malcolm Little when he knelt before Elijah Muhammad
The comet that killed the dinosaurs, changing the earth” -Immortal Technique
Malcolm Little when he knelt before Elijah Muhammad
The comet that killed the dinosaurs, changing the earth” -Immortal Technique
“Tonedeff’s slays giants,
as if my legal name’s David.” -Tonedeff
as if my legal name’s David.” -Tonedeff
“But now we’re facing more poverty,
It’s the most we’ve seen since 1993.
We need to turn this thing around: Michael Vick,
But a recession could be headed for a double dip.” – Flocabulary’s September 16, 2011 Week in Rap
It’s the most we’ve seen since 1993.
We need to turn this thing around: Michael Vick,
But a recession could be headed for a double dip.” – Flocabulary’s September 16, 2011 Week in Rap
Hip-Hop Personification Examples
“The new moon rose high in the crown of the metropolis, shining! Like ‘who on top of this?’” -Mos Def
“I woke up energized,
My clock speaking,
Closet door open,
My clothes looking at me,
Fresh kicks sleeping” -Median
My clock speaking,
Closet door open,
My clothes looking at me,
Fresh kicks sleeping” -Median
“Love is blind” -Eve
“Hip-hop is dead.
Hip-hop just died this morning,
And She’s dead.” -Nas
Hip-hop just died this morning,
And She’s dead.” -Nas
Hip-Hop Alliteration Examples
“Furious, phat, fabulous, fantastic/
flurries of funk felt feeding the fanatics”" -Blackalicious
flurries of funk felt feeding the fanatics”" -Blackalicious
“The crime pays little but the consequence is costly” -Jay Electronica
“I’m a twenty ton terror on top of Tokyo towers with two titanium tentacles” -NoCanDo
Tuesday, April 9, 2013
Tuesday, April 2, 2013
Monday, April 1, 2013
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Mirror by Sylvia Plath
I am silver and exact. I have no preconceptions. 1
Whatever I see I swallow immediately 2
Just as it is, unmisted by love or dislike. 3
I am not cruel, only truthful- 4
The eye of the little god, four cornered. 5
Most of the time I meditate on the opposite wall. 6
It is pink, with speckles. I have looked at it so long 7
I think it is a part of my heart. But it flickers. 8
Faces and darkness separate us over and over. 9
Now I am a lake. A woman bends over me, 10
Searching my reaches for what she really is. 11
Then she turns to those liars, the candles or the moon. 12
I see her back, and reflect it faithfully. 13
She rewards me with tears and an agitation of hands. 14
I am important to her. She comes and goes. 15
Each morning it is her face that replaces the darkness. 16
In me she has drowned a young girl, and in me an old woman 17
Rises toward her day after day, like a terrible fish. 18
Identify the literary elements in lines 10, 18?
Who is the speaker in this poem?
Lil Wayne – Mirror Lyrics
With everything happening today
You don’t know whether you’re coming or going
But you think that you’re on your way
Life lined up on the mirror
don’t blow it
Look at me when I’m talkin to you
You looking at me but I’m lookin through you I see the blood in your eyes
I see the love in disguise
I see the pain here in your pride
I see you’re not satisfied
And I don’t see nobody else
I see myself I’m looking at the Mirror on the wall,
here we are again
Through my rise and fall
You’ve been my only fan
You told me that they can understand the man I am
So why are we here talkin’ to each other again
Oh, I see the truth in your lies
I see nobody by your side but I’m with you when you re all alone
And you correct me when I’m lookin wrong
I see that guilt beneath the shame I see your soul through your window pain
I see the scars that remain I see you Wayne, I’m lookin at the..
Mirror on the wall, here we are again
Through my rise and fall
You’ve been my only fan
You told me that they can understand the man I am
So why are we here talkin’ to each other again
Lookin at me now I can see my past
Dang I look just like my dad
Light it up, that’s smoke at mirrors
I even look good in the broken mirror
I see my momma smile that’s a blessin I see the change,
I see the message and no message could been any clearer
So I’m stared with the man in the… Mirror on the wall, here we are again
Through my rise and fall
You’ve been my only fan
You told me that they can understand the man I am
So why are we here talkin’ to each other again uh…Mirror on the wall, here we are again
Through my rise and fall
You’ve been my only fan
You told me that they can understand the man I am
So why are we here talkin’ to each other again (so why are we talkin to each other again)
Mirror on the wall.
What does Lil Wayne mean when he states “You've been my only fan?”
To whom is he referring? “I see your soul through your window pain” is an example of?
The tone of Sylvia Plath's poem is ____________________
The tone of Lil Wayne's poem is ____________________
List 3 metaphors from Plath's poem
What is the point of view in Wayne's song?
Now, write your own Mirror poem. You can write from the point of view of what the mirror sees or what you see in the mirror. Date____________________ Include 6 of the following poetic devices: Personification repetition Metaphor symbolism Simile alliteration Onomatopoeia assonance consonance end rhyme
I am silver and exact. I have no preconceptions. 1
Whatever I see I swallow immediately 2
Just as it is, unmisted by love or dislike. 3
I am not cruel, only truthful- 4
The eye of the little god, four cornered. 5
Most of the time I meditate on the opposite wall. 6
It is pink, with speckles. I have looked at it so long 7
I think it is a part of my heart. But it flickers. 8
Faces and darkness separate us over and over. 9
Now I am a lake. A woman bends over me, 10
Searching my reaches for what she really is. 11
Then she turns to those liars, the candles or the moon. 12
I see her back, and reflect it faithfully. 13
She rewards me with tears and an agitation of hands. 14
I am important to her. She comes and goes. 15
Each morning it is her face that replaces the darkness. 16
In me she has drowned a young girl, and in me an old woman 17
Rises toward her day after day, like a terrible fish. 18
Identify the literary elements in lines 10, 18?
Who is the speaker in this poem?
Lil Wayne – Mirror Lyrics
With everything happening today
You don’t know whether you’re coming or going
But you think that you’re on your way
Life lined up on the mirror
don’t blow it
Look at me when I’m talkin to you
You looking at me but I’m lookin through you I see the blood in your eyes
I see the love in disguise
I see the pain here in your pride
I see you’re not satisfied
And I don’t see nobody else
I see myself I’m looking at the Mirror on the wall,
here we are again
Through my rise and fall
You’ve been my only fan
You told me that they can understand the man I am
So why are we here talkin’ to each other again
Oh, I see the truth in your lies
I see nobody by your side but I’m with you when you re all alone
And you correct me when I’m lookin wrong
I see that guilt beneath the shame I see your soul through your window pain
I see the scars that remain I see you Wayne, I’m lookin at the..
Mirror on the wall, here we are again
Through my rise and fall
You’ve been my only fan
You told me that they can understand the man I am
So why are we here talkin’ to each other again
Lookin at me now I can see my past
Dang I look just like my dad
Light it up, that’s smoke at mirrors
I even look good in the broken mirror
I see my momma smile that’s a blessin I see the change,
I see the message and no message could been any clearer
So I’m stared with the man in the… Mirror on the wall, here we are again
Through my rise and fall
You’ve been my only fan
You told me that they can understand the man I am
So why are we here talkin’ to each other again uh…Mirror on the wall, here we are again
Through my rise and fall
You’ve been my only fan
You told me that they can understand the man I am
So why are we here talkin’ to each other again (so why are we talkin to each other again)
Mirror on the wall.
What does Lil Wayne mean when he states “You've been my only fan?”
To whom is he referring? “I see your soul through your window pain” is an example of?
The tone of Sylvia Plath's poem is ____________________
The tone of Lil Wayne's poem is ____________________
List 3 metaphors from Plath's poem
What is the point of view in Wayne's song?
Now, write your own Mirror poem. You can write from the point of view of what the mirror sees or what you see in the mirror. Date____________________ Include 6 of the following poetic devices: Personification repetition Metaphor symbolism Simile alliteration Onomatopoeia assonance consonance end rhyme
Monday, March 18, 2013
Figurative Language
Figurative Language Game
Simile and Metaphor Video
Personification Spoken Word Poem
Hyperbole and Understatement
Personification, Hyperbole, Alliteration and Onomatopoeia
Simile and Metaphor Video
Personification Spoken Word Poem
Hyperbole and Understatement
Personification, Hyperbole, Alliteration and Onomatopoeia
Wednesday, March 13, 2013
Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Monday, March 4, 2013
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
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