Today we listened to Marcus Shelby Orchestra's SOUL of the Movement, Meditations on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
The freewrite is from Totems--Sheroes & Sheroes, Anti- & Otherwise. Read pp. 247-248. Choose a poem and analyze 1-3 salient arguments and give supporting evidence.
Operation Small Ax video--Talk about it. We watched it last week
Se Essay, Book Report revisions, etc.
The Angry Black White Boy--the play, finish and discuss the characters, themes, arguments. Start reading the novel which is on-line.
For homework visit Adam Mansbach's website http://www.adammansbach.com/ and read his essay about hip hop fiction.
Check the SE dates for essay due dates.
Sample Portfolios
Today I posted sample portfolios on several desk top computers this morning.
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Bishwojit sharma
English 1B
Professor Wanda Sabir
23 Nov 2010
Viewing Mona Lisa
The poem named 'Viewing Mona Lisa' is written by Angela Martin.He has written this poem after Mona Lisa was once stolen and missing for two years. Here, the poet explains that he stole the Mona Lisa and locked her in a room. He also agrees that he is completely in love with her and wanna be with her all the time. He likes the way she look at him and the way she is smiling.But he wonders if she loves him or not. In this poem, author has tried to describe the beauty of Mona Lisa. Through out his entire peom, he seems crazy for Mona Lisa. This poem is a great example of describing heroes, sheroes, anti and others in our society. One fact about the Mona Lisa is that more poeple visited to see the blank space where she was kept after she got stolen and lost for two years.
Mauricio Cavero Alprecht
English 1B
Professor Wanda Sabir
23 November 2010
Helen
Although Helen is a Greek muse and it is known as a symbol of sexual beauty, Hilda Doolittle attacks the traditional imagery of Helen and implies that such perspectives have silenced Helen’s own voice.
We can see that in the Poem as Helen starts losing all of her inner life throughout the stanzas. In the first stanza we see Helen that it is standing with her “still eyes in the white face” (258). The second stanza we can observe another life suggestion in Helen’s smile. The third stanza brings the death of Helen when Doolittle writes that “white ash amid funereal cypresses” (258). White depicts the color of death and the final destiny of Helen.
The attacks that Doolittle portrays on the traditional imagery of Helen in her poem at every beginning of her stanzas. “All Greece hates,””All Greece reviles” and “Greece sees unmoved.” Commonly we would think that Greece would think otherwise but in Doolittle’s poem they are feel with hate and transformation.
Peter Blue Cloud
I write this in honor of the first peoples of this land, the Indigenous people of African and native ancestry, an ancestry most of us now share on the eve of a great terrible massacre, November 25, Thanksgiving Day. What I found funny about Peter Blue Cloud’s Coyote Makes the First People is how after he swallowed the lake and to compensate the fishes for losing their habitat, he decided to make them the first people, the head fish replied: “Oh, no you don’t. . . . If it’s all the same with you, could you just put us back where we were? And could you please take away these stupid legs?”
Coyote was in a fix, nothing wants to be people: “So what do I do huh, can you tell me?” he stated as he looked at his reflection in the restored lake. He stayed in that position so long he passed a turd and from that fashioned the first people.
Is the moral here, people are full of shit because that is what they are made of? I guess we can’t expect any better unless we can rise above our lowly origins (smile).
This creation story is not far from that of man fashioned from clay. No matter how we look at it, scientifically or biblically people are the late comers to the planet and have a long way to go on the evolution chart. Isn’t that funny when we think we are so all that, when nothing with any sense wants to be us.
I wonder if I should try another life form, like a fish or rock or tree or flower of Coyote (smile).
Bishwojit sharma
English 1B
Professor Wanda Sabir
23 Nov 2010
Viewing Mona Lisa
The poem named 'Viewing Mona Lisa' is written by Angela Martin.He has written this poem after Mona Lisa was once stolen and missing for two years.
The poet explains that he stole the Mona Lisa and locked her in a room. He also agrees that he is completely in love with her and wanna be with her all the time. He likes the way she look at him and the way she is smiling.But he wonders if she loves him or not.
In this poem, author has tried to describe the beauty of Mona Lisa. Through out his entire peom, he seems crazy for Mona Lisa. This poem is a great example of describing heroes, sheroes, anti and others in our society. One fact about the Mona Lisa is that more poeple visited to see the blank space where she was kept after she got stolen and lost for two years.
Ricardo Pedro
English 1B
Professor Sabir
23 November 2010
Coyote Spiritualism
Coyotes are known as symbols of spiritual guidance and wisdom. The poem “Coyote Makes the First People” by Peter Blue Cloud provides no exception to this general rule. The story goes as follows: a coyote is looking at his reflection in a lake. The lake represents spiritual awareness and knowledge. He is above it and by reflecting on himself before falling in. His narcissism gets in the way of his spiritual development and therefore regresses for a moment.
This is wholly symbolic of what is means to be human. It is believed that we inhabit our bodies in order to develop spiritually and take responsibility for our past actions or misdeeds. However, it seems we all lose our way and get lost in ourselves. We develop identities and egos and lose the original intention of focusing on our spiritual development.
In the last part of the story, the coyote first attempts to create humans out of this dilemma he created. However, this did not work. His reflection then tells him to create people out of his excrement instead. This is how it is explained that we came about. This is symbolic of how it is believed that we come of nothing, of waste even. In addition, it shows us that we have a long way to go in terms of development. Since the coyote represents humans, it seems that we do not begin to grow spiritually until we have reached rock bottom and feel like excrement.
Shonta Jones
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1B
24 November 2010
In the poem Filling the Gap by Lawson Inada she talks about gaps and how people go through life passing things by, and that when people close to us die sometimes we just keep living and never dwell on the death (mourn). That we go through life and see the same people over and over and now they are getting old, frail and dying, there health was good yesterday and now they are dying today. The poems also talks about how can we do not notice when someone dies, that we are too busy or did we just don’t care. The poem shows us the world today, because by the end it shows us that we need to cherish what we have and love our family, kids and spouses every day that we should look forward to the talks we have with one another and enjoy one another company before we have no time left to say anything to them. Cherish life and never take it for granted, let those you love know you love them and don’t wait, sit around to tell someone something and then look up one day and they are gone, feel in the gaps of your day and your life and just TALK.
Shonta Jones
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1B
24 November 2010
Filling teh Gap
In the poem Filling the Gap by Lawson Inada she talks about gaps and how people go through life passing things by, and that when people close to us die sometimes we just keep living and never dwell on the death (mourn). That we go through life and see the same people over and over and now they are getting old, frail and dying, there health was good yesterday and now they are dying today. The poems also talks about how can we do not notice when someone dies, that we are too busy or did we just don’t care. The poem shows us the world today, because by the end it shows us that we need to cherish what we have and love our family, kids and spouses every day that we should look forward to the talks we have with one another and enjoy one another company before we have no time left to say anything to them. Cherish life and never take it for granted, let those you love know you love them and don’t wait, sit around to tell someone something and then look up one day and they are gone, feel in the gaps of your day and your life and just TALK.
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