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In class writing

1. We were ready for the response. It's a simple conversation between mother and son. The son shows that he's tired of studying and then mom comes and teaches him something about life. This is what we thought about the scene for the poem. The mom is talking about something serious to her teenager son. 2. The mom's lesson is what we highlight for the poem. The main idea of this poem is to communicate with the son. So the information and the way the mom talk is important. 

Mother to the son

I think the purpose of why the writer writes this poem is very simple, so when I first read it I could be sure that the poem was written to teach children something about life. As the poem says, there will be no crystal stairs in life. This means that no one will set everything up for you, and there will be no shortcuts. All your achievements need to be achieved step by step. On the way, as the poem says, there will be a lot of tacks and splinters. These are the difficulties you encounter in your efforts, but you cannot retreat or stop. Because your life goes on you have to move on. This is indeed a point I like about this poem because what the author mentioned is very realistic. It's like what my parents would teach me at home. So I am very able to understand the author, including the feelings of the author who wants to read this poem. I also like the way the author wrote this poem. As a poem that teaches others, he told the reader directly what he wanted to tell. This makes it un...

Poem notes

This Is Just To Say BY WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox and which you were probably saving for breakfast Forgive me they were delicious so sweet and so cold When I first read the poem, I felt this is a very short and concise poem. The poem as a whole strikes me as saying something about the author's daily life so there are no metaphors or personification. And this poem lacks rhythm compared to the others. Through the content of the poem, I think the author is confessing something, and the plum in the poem is an allusion to something that the author regrets in reality. I really like the writer use this simple way to write the poem. Everything is close to our life helps us to have the same feeling with the writer. Also, this type of poem is very readable, because every time you reread it, it is possible to discover something hidden by the author. 1.       Why the author uses plum? 2.     ...
1. The sun is like a golden coin. 2. London is the heart of Britain. 3. The flower smiled at me. 4. It rains cats and rats. 5.

Monologue(first acting)

https://youtu.be/i4nA-SlZ6J8 I think my idea of smoke the cigarette is great because I think this character should be a melancholy person, so he might smoke when he was thinking he's life should be better. I think I need to work more on my emotion and actor's lines, I didn't recite this perfectly. And my emotion through this is too flat. I think others expression of emotion is what made their performance strong. And we should work more on the emotion express because this is what makes our performance more

Final draft reflection

1. I think I did well on my final draft. Mainly because this is a good song with meaningful lyrics, so is easy to write an analysis about that. 2. It depends on the paper that other people writes opinions for me. I put more analyze for the quotation and add the topic sentence for each paragraph. 3. The difficult is to write a thesis about the lyrics. The lyrics are quite confused for the first time, but when I find out it is related on 1984 everything becomes easy. 4. My strengths are to find the materials that can help me and I really interested to write an analysis of one of my favorite songs. My weakness is I'm confused about the words I can use, my vocabulary is not enough. 5. I will put more examples from the book 1984 to connected with this song. 6. 1) Thesis is specific Ideas are original and not just stating the obvious Quotes are used as evidence in the body paragraph 2) Free of grammatical errors Body paragraph have ending sentence Interesting to read.

Life of howling finial draft

Life of howling The song named " howlin'404" and it shows that when you find out you live in a world that makes you different from all other people, you need to howl and find out the people who are the same as you. Although the sequences might be like an error code 404, don't be afraid. Look at the title of the song seems to imply this repeated tired life, and talk about those mistakes that he made in his life. The word howling and error code 404 create the name of this poem. The error code 404 is the page when the server cannot provide information or the server cannot respond. And the hard life makes him stuck in a loop. The whole poem reveals a state of depression for the author. From here it also shows the author can't control his own state.  The story of this song shows the author's idea of dystopian. From the writer's (singer's) Instagram, he told the reader(listener) that the background of this poem depends on a novel named 1984. The nov...

Life of howling 2nd draft

Life of howling The song named howlin'404 and it shows that when you find out you live in a world that makes you different from all other people, you need to howl and find out the people who are the same as you. Although the sequences might be like an error code 404, don't be afraid. Look at the title of the song seems to imply this repeated tired life, and talk about those mistakes that he made in his life. The word howling and error code 404 create the name of this poem. The error code 404 is the page when the server cannot provide information or the server cannot respond. And the hard life makes him stuck in a loop. The whole poem reveals a state of depression for the author. From here it also shows the author can't control his own state.  The story of this song shows author idea of dystopian. From the writer's (singer's) Instagram, he told the reader(listener) that the background of this poem depends on a novel named 1984. The novel establishes a dystopi...

Life of howling

Life of howling This song shows that when you find out you live in a world that makes you different from all other people, you need to howl and find out the people who are the same as you. Although the sequences might be like an error code like 404, don't be afraid.  The word howling and error code 404 create the name of this poem. Look at the title of the song seems to imply this repeated tired life, and talk about those mistakes that he made in his life. And this makes him stuck in a loop. The whole poem reveals a state of depression for the author. From here it also shows the author can't control his own state.  From the writer's (singer's) Instagram, he told the reader(listener) that the background of this poem depends on a novel named 1984. The novel establishes a dystopian world. And the author has expressed that the story of the song is about the future of the world 100 years after 1984. He also described what the world would look like to him. In 1984, th...

Link of the poem performance

https://youtu.be/rehS6bVtCBs

Song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgxSYEFcePY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XZ-6U_R-h0 [Verse 1: DEAN] If you frightened easily, turn off the radio now. Rain is falling on bad timing Know it's nothing, just knocking I can't help it cuz it's over, hello? I can't help but say it's over (So screwed up) [Chorus: DEAN] Yeah, it's true, true I'm stuck in the loop Might sound strange, yeah Tho it's true to be stuck in the system Time rewinds, you looked at me baby Yeah, it's true, true I'm stuck in the loop Losing control, I can't get over In the void, I can't be sober [Refrain: DEAN] You're killing me softly, whoo, whoo, whoo You're killing me softly, whoo, whoo [Verse 2: DEAN] See broken promises And I know this is what you put me through Unwelcome guest Brings me back to guilts again with no word (So screwed up) [Chorus: DEAN] Yeah, it's true, true I'm stuck in the loop Might sound strange, yeah Tho it's true to be s...

Acting reflection

The hard part for me is the recite and add some hand motion during the acting. And the easy part is to work with others. I think the background music and your movement will make the performance interesting to watch.  And in our play, the music really helped a lot, because it made our play vividly.