Today, we continued writing the poems in our writing notebooks or on our Google doc. On Google doc, I wrote the poem for summer under the theme of childhood. I was stuck since I couldn’t really think of analogies that could describe childhood. As I was gathering my photos, I found inspiration from a picture of a […]
Category: Language and Literature
Starting Off // 1st progress update
For the past week, we worked on writing the poems in our writing notebooks. Claire and I wrote the poems in her writing notebooks and we revised them directly. After writing the poems in the notebook, we typed it out on a Google doc. […]
Human Trafficking – Stop the Slavery!
I believe that “human trafficking” isn’t an unfamiliar phrase for all of us. However, as it seems to be such a serious issue, do we really know about it? Human trafficking is an issue that is way more severe than we could possibly imagine. Around the world, there are approximately 20.9 million victims suffering from […]
Where Do I Belong?
For the summative assessment of this unit, we are supposed to write two TIEAs, one based on the author’s choice, and the other based on the illustrator’s choice. We were in small groups of 3 or 4, and we discussed about a graphic novel. The book for our group was called Marzi: a memoir. Below […]
A Little Glimpse Of Poetry // 15 Minutes of Fame
Highwayman Annotation TIEA In the poem “Highwayman”, Alfred Noyes described the thoughts and actions of the characters with imagery to imply the change in mood in order to further bring affection to the readers. When King George’e men first showed up in the inn, Noyes described, “For Bess could see, through the casement, the road that he […]
Figurative Languages in Songs
For this assignment, we formed groups of three or four and explored figurative languages in songs. There are 8 required figurative languages, which are simile, personification, alliteration, metaphor, hyperbole, repetition, onomatopoeia, and imagery. After we identified the figurative language in song, we explained and tried to interpret the purpose of the figurative language and the reason why the artists decided to use it. […]
Poetry Imitation
Imitation poetry is another type of poetry. For this small project, we annotated five different genres of poems and imitated their styles to further create our own poems. For the first two ones, If I Were In Charge Of The World and Where I’m From, we were also required to create two photo stories. After writing […]
Poetry Remix
Poetry is not only a genre but also a form of art. By using existing works, we created our own poems by remixing them. Here, I created four types of poems: idiom poem, song title poem, slogan poem, and black-out poems. For the first three poems, I looked up for idioms, song titles, and slogans […]
Bias in Media
Part 1: Commercial Annotations Music Video “Locked Away” Annotations TV Show Glee – Season 2 Episode 1: Audition – Annotations Part 2: This video shows how biases and stereotypes can alter people’s judgments and thoughts towards the society and the people around them. We interviewed several eighth-grade students to see how gender bias and racism […]