Watch the film, Swing Kids, and complete the following questions.

Watch the MysteryQuest documentary, Rise of the Fourth Reich, and complete the following tasks below:

Listen to the song and read the lyrics below.

MARIA
by: rage against the machine

Tha sun ablaze as Maria's foot
Touches tha surface of sand
On northern land
As human contraband
Some rico from Jalisco
Passed her name to tha boss
She stuffed ten to a truckbed
She clutches her cross
Here comes tha exhaust
And it rips through her lungs
She's off fast to tha pasture
Like cattle she'll cross
Degree 106
Sweat and vomit are thrown
And she prays and suffocates
Upon tha memories of home
Of Yanqui guns for blood debts on tha loans
Of smoldering fields rape rubble and bones
Of graves hidden trapped up in visions of war
Of nothing no one nobody no more
These are her mountains and skies and
She radiates
Through history's rivers of blood
She regenerates
And like tha sun disappears only to reappear
She's eternally here
Her time is near
Never conquered but here

To tear away at tha mask

And now she got a quota
Tha needle and thread crucifixion
Sold and shipped across tha new line
of Mason Dixon
Rippin' through denim
Tha point an inch from her vein
Tha foreman approach
His steps now pound in her brain
His presence it terrifies
And eclipses her days
No minutes to rest
No moment to pray
And with a whisper
He whips her
Her soul chained to his will
"My job is to kill if you forget to take your pill"
Her arms jerks
Tha sisters gather round her and scream
As if in a dream
Eyes on tha crimson stream
Numb as her wrists spit shots of blood to tha floor
I am nothing, no one, nobody, no more

These are her mountains and skies and
she radiates
And through history's rivers of blood
she regenerates
And like tha sun disappears only to reappear
Maria she's eternally here
Her time is near
Never conquered but here

To tear away at tha mask
To tear away at tha mask
To tear away at tha mask

No minutes to rest
No moment to pray
No minutes to rest
No moment to pray
No minutes to rest
It eclipses her day
Just a moment to pray

ugh!

To tear away at tha mask
Away at tha mask
To tear away at tha mask
To tear away at tha mask

1. What is the story of the song?
   
2. Has the novel reminded you about about any other song - whether that be tone or content - you may have heard? What one?
   
3. Can you insert the name Ashley (from the novel Shelter) into the title? Why?
   
4. What line or passage from the song is the most interesting / powerful / important? Why?
5. Use the line or passage from above - or any one from the song - and write a NARRATIVE (storyish) paragraph. See below for an example:

And she prays and suffocates on the memories of home. She touches her cross, but it isn't there. It's a phantom memory. It's an  involuntary reaction. The cross was ripped from neck her when she got here and thrown into this windowless room with five mattresses and five other souls suffocating on memories of home.

But she still touches the air and prays.  It's only hope.

• Describe the image. What do you see?
• What is the "story" in the image? What is the title?

• What image do you see when you read this passage?
• What real-life - news or  personal -  issue or event does this passage remind you of?

• Describe the image. What do you see?
• What is the "story" in the image? What is the title?

• What image do you see when you read this passage?
• What real-life - news or  personal -  issue or event does this passage remind you of?

• Describe the image. What do you see?
• What is the "story" in the image? What is the title?

• What image do you see when you read this passage?
• What real-life - news or  personal -  issue or event does this passage remind you of?

• Describe the image. What do you see?
• What is the "story" in the image? What is the title?

• What image do you see when you read this passage?
• What real-life - news or  personal -  issue or event does this passage remind you of?

The above images are FIGURATIVELY - not so obviously - connected to the novel, Shelter. The passages are "snippets" of content that will hopefully "hook" you.

Based on the four images and four passages, what do you think the novel Shelter will be about?


Comment in the SHOUTBOX and RESPOND at least once. 

The following is a BOOK TRAILER for Harlan Coben's novel, Shelter. Watch the trailer and think about the following questions:

• what is the novel going to be about?
• does the trailer make you want to read the novel? why?

The following is a BOOK TRAILER for Harlan Coben's novel, Shelter. Watch the trailer and think about the following questions:

• what is the novel going to be about?
• does the trailer make you want to read the novel? why?

What is the more effective BOOK TRAILER? Why?
Based on the BOOK TRAILERS, what do you think the novel will be about?
Do the "ideas" revealed through the images make you excited to read the novel, Shelter?


Comment in the SHOUTBOX and RESPOND at least once.