Saturday, September 10, 2016

Friday &Monday; September 9 & September 12, 2016


Syllabus: parent signatures: Full credit for this assignment if you get it in to me in the first two weeks. I did get those back from 70% of the class.
Literary terms for the day: Allusion, alliteration (Dragnet), rhyme, sonnet
       These words are from your Coming to America packet. We will cover these words throughout the year. The list is divided into words you should already know and words you may not have been taught. The word "alliteration" is illustrated in the following video from the Johnny Carson Show from 1968,





Discussion of the poem “The New Colossus”: We re-watched the video from the previous class. We discussed the entire poem. Students brought information in to add to the discussion. This information could have been regarding the poem itself, the Statue of Liberty, or the Colossus.

The tone of the poem was discussed. Students talked about whether the poem was true at the time it was written, and also if it is true today.



Neil Diamond America

What is the tone of the Neil Diamond song. This song came from the movie "The Jazz Singer." This was a remake of the very first talkie movie ever made, in 1929.




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