We've done a lot of work lately with multiple choice passages. What do you feel has helped you the most? What do you feel like you still need work on? What can we do in class to better prepare you for that portion of the AP exam (outside of just doing more practice)? Explain.
Respond to this post with the names of your poems - include the poet's name as well.
Discuss the experience of writing as a group instead of an individual. What were the challenges you faced? What were the benefits? What did is cause you to do that you may not have done otherwise? Explain. You only need to respond to me, and your response must be at least 100 words.
This is a free-for-all forum. What is your final reaction to A Thousand Splendid Suns? How did it make you feel? What would you have changed? What pleased you? Let the verbal vomit flow!!!!
Just like setting serves a primary function in A Thousand Splendid Suns, may poems use setting as a literary device as well. The following poem by Phillip Larkin centers around setting. In 150 words or more, discuss how Larkin conveys his attitude toward the places he describes. After responding the prompt, read and respond to at least two of your classmates.
Here by Phillip Larkin (1964) Swerving east, from rich industrial shadows And traffic all night north; swerving through fields Too thin and thistled to be called meadows, And now and then a harsh-named halt, that shields Workmen at dawn; swerving to solitude Of skies and scarecrows, haystacks, hares and pheasants, And the widening river's slow presence, The piled gold clouds, the shining gull-marked mud, Gathers to the surprise of a large town: Here domes and statues, spires and cranes cluster Beside grain-scattered streets, barge-crowded water, And residents from raw estates, brought down The dead straight miles by stealing flat-faced trolleys, Push through plate-glass swing doors to their desires - Cheap suits, red kitchen-ware, sharp shoes, iced lollies, Electric mixers, toasters, washers, driers – A cut-price crowd, urban yet simple, dwelling Where only salesmen and relations come Within a terminate and fishy-smelling Pastoral of ships up streets, the slave museum, Tattoo-shops, consulates, grim head-scarfed wives; And out beyond its mortgaged half-built edges Fast-shadowed wheat-fields, running high as hedges, Isolate villages, where removed lives Loneliness clarifies. Here silence stands Like heat. Here leaves unnoticed thicken, Hidden weeds flower, neglected waters quicken, Luminously-peopled air ascends; And past the poppies bluish neutral distance Ends the land suddenly beyond a beach Of shapes and shingle. Here is unfenced existence: Facing the sun, untalkative, out of reach. For this week, you all are in charge of the discussion topics. Keeping in tune with what we have been reading and studying in class, post any question or discussion starter of your choice. Along with posting a question or discussion starter, you must also read and respond to at least 2 of your classmates, but feel free to respond to more.
Discuss your initial reaction to A Thousand Splendid Suns. What has stood out to you? What do you think of the writing so far? What do you think of the story so far? Make a prediction about an important aspect from Part One. Your response must be at least 100 words, and you need to read and respond (in a manner that promotes discussion) to at least 2 of your classmates.
What is your first impressions of poetry? How does it compare with your ideas on poetry before we started this. How do you feel about it going forward? Your response must be at least 100 words, and you only need to respond to me.
Read the following poem "Mother to Son" by Langston Hughes. Answer each of the following questions with a brief explanation for your answer. 1. Who is the Speaker? (Remember to look beyond the poet for possible answers.) 2. What is the Occasion? (The text should dictate this response) 3. Who is the Audience? (Think specifically, then broadly, then globally.) 4. What is the Purpose? (These answers should be parallel to the audience identified) 5. What is the Subject of the poem? 6. What is the Tone? (Should include contrasting, yet complimentary tones) 1. Speaker 2. Occasion 3. Audience 4. Purpose 5. Subject 6. Tone
Mother to Son Well, son, I'll tell you: Life for me ain't been no crystal stair. It's had tacks in it, And splinters, And boards torn up, And places with no carpet on the floor- Bare. But all the time I'se been a-climbing on, And reachin' landin's, And turnin' corners, And sometimes goin' in the dark Where there ain't been no light. So, boy, don't you turn back. Don't you set down on the steps. 'Cause you finds it's kinder hard. Don't you fall now- For I'se still goin', honey, I'se still climbin', And life for me ain't been no crystal stair. |
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