Poetic Devices in Speech/Songs/Poetry
Text Structure and Text Evidence
Media Clips/Documents
Text Explored
What is Survival?
100
Buddy Holly, The Catcher in the Rye and Afghanistan
What is the song "We Didn't Start the Fire".
100
One is the writer’s attitude and the other is the reader’s feeling
What is Tone and Mood?
100
Jewish families coming out of a forest wondering should they continue to run from the Nazis
What is the clip from the movie Defiance?
100
A diary shared by a little girl in Bosnia.
What is "Zlata's Diary"?
100
What does it take to be a survivor?
Various answers from your interactive notebook.
200
Two or more words within a sentence starting with the same letter
What is alliteration?
200
Compare and Contrast, Chronological, and Problem/Solution
What are examples of Text Structure?
200
Showing how a famous family movie’s tone/mood can change due to music and video clip choices
What is Mary Poppins and Scary Mary?
200
A letter shared by a little Japanese American boy.
What is "A Letter from a Concentration Camp"?
200
What causes some people to take risks and others not?
Various answers, hopefully bringing up B. Ismay.
300
One day, right there in Alabama, little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.
What is the "I Have a Dream" speech by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
300
Semantic Slanting, Sterotype, One-sided argument, Loaded Words
What are examples of bias?
300
Discussed and showed possibilities of two men and other factors for the sinking of the Titanic.
What is the media clip titled "Who is to Blame"?
300
A first officer on the Titanic.
Who is First Officer William Murdock?
300
What are some unexpected outcomes to being a survivor?
Various answers, hopefully mentioning how B. Ismay was looked upon as well as survivors on the Titanic tragedy.
400
Name of the poem read and analyzed looking for alliteration, consonance, rhyme, personification
What is "The Magnificent Titanic"?
400
Three reasons author’s write
What are to persuade, inform, and entertain.
400
Created this to share your Biography research.
What is a Voicethread?
400
The two novels we read excerpts from to learn how tone and mood is used within those novels.
What are the novels "Jaguar" and "Hatchet"?
400
In one minute, who do you think was to blame for the sinking of the Titanic?
Looking for debate facts.
500
You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word: It is victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.
What is the "Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat" speech by Winston Churchill?
500
A type of writing that is written to persuade the reader to think the way of the author
What is bias?
500
Created a One-Pager (excerpt/connection/illustration) from this article.
What is "Titanic: Ship of Dreams"?
500
Taught us how a book was written but never published 14 years before the tragedy because publisher companies thought it was a ridiculous thought.
What is "Titanic: Ship of Dreams"?
500
What book was your 40 book challenge project on and what activity did you do?
Various answers.
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