AGENDA:
Grammar practice:
The Qualities
Create two "quality" personifications similar to the ones that Ruth Gendler has written. Go to Gendler's website for examples.
Select an emotion and give it the qualities of a human being--personification! How does this emotion act, "feel", live? Who are friends of this emotion? What does this emotion look like physically (if he or she were a person)? Use vivid DESCRIPTION to PERSONIFY this emotion.
Those of you who would like to can also draw a picture of your "character" and we will try to publish a class book of "The Qualities" at the end of the marking period
Create two "quality" personifications similar to the ones that Ruth Gendler has written. Go to Gendler's website for examples.
Select an emotion and give it the qualities of a human being--personification! How does this emotion act, "feel", live? Who are friends of this emotion? What does this emotion look like physically (if he or she were a person)? Use vivid DESCRIPTION to PERSONIFY this emotion.
Those of you who would like to can also draw a picture of your "character" and we will try to publish a class book of "The Qualities" at the end of the marking period
American War: Read to Part II, pg. 86
Post a blog comment to Questions 1-4 from the previous post
1. The conflict and loss will be very human, and very relatable. It will have relevance to the type of messages sent in these stories. They will be empowering quotes that will help us to understand what the person is feeling.
ReplyDelete2. I was very surprised by this map. The changes in geography scared me greatly. The fact that there is a free southern state scared me. The fact that he decided to have mexico take back South-West and other world countries become dominant adds to the image of peril that could come onto the united states.
3. The narrator explains that there was a war between the north and the south over fossil fuels and the southern states seceded from the union. He explained that even after the war, radicals continue to spread crime. He explains the plague and he refers to injustices which he does not exactly name.
4. Her name change helps us realize her sharp ferocity and endurance. Her sister contrasts Sarat's quiet curiosity and ability for patience and focus with a careless, mean, girly girl personality.
#relatable
DeleteIts saying that the world is a dog eat dog world, and everyone is competing for some kind of supremacy. The sources suggest a bleak and no-holds barred story that is an honest way of telling a very serious story.
ReplyDeleteNo I'm not surprised because the coasts are what I would imagine would disappear first. I don't think anything else is responsible for the coastlines change besides the inability of politicians to except scientific fact.
He explains how those events affected that person he remembers. He doesn't explain what significance she had to his life back then.
It shows the kind of person she is, as well as the kind of person she wants to be. It shows that she will be stubborn and loyal, I guess? She is contrasted to her sister because her sister is mean to her, and Sarat is indifferent to her sister and just ignores her.
David and Ev
ReplyDelete1. The novel’s epigraphs are taken from two classic texts, an ancient Arabic book of poems and the Bible. What do the quotes and their sources suggest about the conflict that will follow in the novel?
People who are being oppressed are going to fight back, but both sides of the fight feel like they are being oppressed.
2. Were you surprised by the way the map of the United States has been altered—the states’ borders and the landmasses themselves—in the projections for 2075? What do you think caused those changes; was it solely politics or other forces as well?
EV: Was surprised because didn't expect everything to be gone.
DAVID: Wasn't surprised because was smart and knew the coastlines would be gone.
3. What does the first-person narrator we meet in the prologue explain—and not explain—about how the country has changed, the timeline of the Second American Civil War itself, and the unnamed “she” who has stayed in his memory since his youth?
He said that there was a second American Civil War and there was a plague that killed 110 million people. He also said that he loved the unnamed girl, or that he wished he remembered her better.
4. What is the significance of Sarat’s changing of her own name when she’s a girl? How does that sense of agency and identity develop as she gets older? How does her having a twin sister fit into your understanding of her independence and actions?
Her name change shows her independence as a child. Her sister shows her that the world can be harsh since she is quite mean to her.