We checked in with the teacher about parent signatures on the course overview.
All five classes had written what they thought the American Dream meant. We looked at all five and found what they shared in common. Some groups added to their descriptions.
We looked at five pictures of the Colossus of Rhodes. In their buddy groups, students discussed what characteristics they noticed about each picture, and then they discussed what that characteristic would symbolize. This was then shared in large group.
We pulled out our assignments for today. We discussed the words they looked up last night. Wrote four words on the side: allusion, alliteration, rhyme scheme, and sonnet.
Allusion: reference to a something well known.
alliteration: use of the same initial consonant sounds at the beginning of two or more words relatively close together.
rhyme scheme: pattern of end rhyme in a poem or song. Example: abba abba cdcdcd; or abab cdcd efef gg.
If you want more review for rhyme scheme, watch the following video.
If you want to understand what a sonnet is, here is a quick review:
We went through the poem and discussed. Wrote definitions for the four terms listed above,and looked how those words were appropriate to this poem. To have fun with alliteration, we watched Johnny Carson:
To offer a counter to this patriotic view of America, we watched the opening scene from "Newsroom". Please excuse the three uses inappropriate language. See the video at the link below:
https://youtu.be/1zqOYBabXmA
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