Look right under here for today's work.
Follow the button below to find videos that will answer the questions on your Edgar Allan Poe biographical notes page. Make sure you are watching the correct video for the correct heading. You do not need to write in complete sentences unless you ask me if you need to write in complete sentences :) This work is due at the end of class or it is homework.
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Theme Study
YOU NEED EARBUDS/HEADPHONES!!
We are getting ready to read a short novel called "Jonathan Livingston Seagull." Part of the work we will be doing is identifying theme and the ways in which the author presents his themes to the reader. First, you will need a brief introduction to theme and what it is! You will do the following work with a partner. If, for whatever reason, you and your partner cannot work well together, you will be asked to complete the work on your own. Your partner can ONLY be the first person to the left or right of you. If you get stuck without a partner, let me know :)
Mini lesson on theme with a partner.
Learning target for today: You should be able to answer the following questions with evidence from the video and examples if applicable.
What is a fiction author's topic?
What is a fiction author's theme?
How are they different?
Theme video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9s8vqztKUk (You will watch this with a partner. You may also watch more than once...pssst.....this is a good idea :).
At the end: Get a white board from the computer desk. Do your work on here. Be sure both of your names are on it!! Using the poem below, explain both the topic(s) (claim #1) and the theme(s) (claim #2). Use evidence from the text and explain your reasons for using that evidence to support your claims. Remember, read a poem at least twice!! Look up any vocabulary words you do not know!!
If— BY RUDYARD KIPLING
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;
If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools:
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!
We are getting ready to read a short novel called "Jonathan Livingston Seagull." Part of the work we will be doing is identifying theme and the ways in which the author presents his themes to the reader. First, you will need a brief introduction to theme and what it is! You will do the following work with a partner. If, for whatever reason, you and your partner cannot work well together, you will be asked to complete the work on your own. Your partner can ONLY be the first person to the left or right of you. If you get stuck without a partner, let me know :)
Mini lesson on theme with a partner.
Learning target for today: You should be able to answer the following questions with evidence from the video and examples if applicable.
What is a fiction author's topic?
What is a fiction author's theme?
How are they different?
Theme video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9s8vqztKUk (You will watch this with a partner. You may also watch more than once...pssst.....this is a good idea :).
At the end: Get a white board from the computer desk. Do your work on here. Be sure both of your names are on it!! Using the poem below, explain both the topic(s) (claim #1) and the theme(s) (claim #2). Use evidence from the text and explain your reasons for using that evidence to support your claims. Remember, read a poem at least twice!! Look up any vocabulary words you do not know!!
If— BY RUDYARD KIPLING
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;
If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools:
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!