- List three facts that you have learned from the film.
- How does this film help you understand the emotional/psychological escape of Mickey and the physical escape of Lizzie Sobek?t
Watch the film, Swing Kids, and complete the following questions.
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Watch the MysteryQuest documentary, Rise of the Fourth Reich, and complete the following tasks below:
Click on the image above and review the website. Complete the following tasks and submit using the form 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 Complete the following questions and submit using the form below:
But she still touches the air and prays. It's only hope.
…rushed over to her chair, got down on one knee, and was ready to untie her. In the movies, this always seems to take mere seconds, doesn’t it? Like someone had tied up the person the same way you might tie a shoelace. But in real life, that wasn’t the case. It wasn’t the case at all.
Cigarette butts littered the floor—I thought about poor Candy’s arm and shivered—but that wasn’t what made me pull up in shock.
Phony. All so phony. How had I fallen for her act?
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:
The following is a BOOK TRAILER for Harlan Coben's novel, Shelter. Watch the trailer and think about the following questions:
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. The image used for the cover has an interesting story. Read about it below or from its original source. Julian Koschwitz uses a typewriter linked to data from the Committee to Protect Journalists to generate stories about those who have fallen doing their jobs. The images used for the News Report writing assignment have an interesting back-story. Click here to read the Toronto Star article or on the website to read more about the "real" story. 1. Watch the YouTube clip on how to create Blackout poetry. 2. Create your own Blackout Poem from a current news story that interests you. 3. Use Google News and search for a story or topic that interests you. 4. Copy and paste the entire article into a word document. Use the HIGHLIGHT TOOL (black) to blackout the article. 5. Use the tutorial information as a guide to black out the article that you have chosen. 6. Try and maintain the ESSENTIAL information - main ideas and details - in the article (DON'T BLACKOUT THE IMPORTANT DETAILS). 7. "POETIZE" the words and sentences. Rearrange the words and sentences into a poem. Click on the image below for an example. Read the poem to your classmates. 8. Save both the "blackouted" article and "poetized" version and send a copy to [email protected]. [ evaluation: literature studies and oral]
you can identify the main ideas and details 1 2 3 4 you can arrange the text into poetic form 1 2 3 4 you can read the poem with enthusiasm and clarity 1 1.5 1.75 2 / 10 |
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