October 24

The Metaphor Essay

Mrs. Hancock Versus Charlotte’s Mom

 

The Metaphor is a story all about a girl named Charlotte who is very good at writing metaphors and gets along really well with her middle school English teacher, named Mrs. Hancock. Her mom felt kind of distant to her and she didn’t like the way her mom treated her so she wrote a metaphor about her and that backfired. The teacher, Mrs. Hancock, always thought her metaphors were the best and Mrs. Hancock liked her the best out of everybody in class. When Charlotte moves on to high school she thinks that she’ll never see Mrs. Hancock ever again, but to her surprise she does. In high school the kids are more rowdy and rambunctious compared to middle school kid so Mrs. Hancock has a hard time controlling them, she doesn’t notice that Charlotte is in her class. Charlotte tried to not be noticed by Mrs. Hancock but eventually she does notice her. When she does notice her she is called into her classroom and is talked to by her, she asks her to help in class and Charlotte just shrugs her off. Mrs. Hancock decides she can’t handle the problems in class and ends up killing herself over the amount of stress. This effects Charlotte in a very sad way. She knew that teacher well and felt like she was almost her mother.

Her actual mother was quite cold and distant. Charlotte tried to get to know her but she kept being distant. She was always busy with work and couldn’t talk to Charlotte. Charlotte’s mother also didn’t like Mrs. Hancock, in fact she thought she was weird. When Charlotte need her mother around the time of Mrs. Hancock’s death she was nowhere to be found for emotional comfort. Charlotte needed someone there and ever since Mrs. Hancock died, she had no one that would help her. Her mom was not as good as Mrs. Hancock was to her and I think that Life would have been better for both Mrs. Hancock and Charlotte if Charlotte didn’t ignore Mrs. Hancock and if Mrs. Hancock didn’t kill herself then things might’ve worked out, but she did and it affected people in ways that no one thought it would. One of Charlotte’s friends made a joke about her killing herself, and she slapped him right across the face. I think that Mrs. Hancock was the better of the two and she didn’t deserve to die.

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October 20

Analyzing Poetry “Space Jam”

Analyzing Poetry Space Jam

1.

·        This song is about basketball, but not just basketball, the most important game of basketball ever. The Space Jam.

·       This poem addresses a mythical phenomenon known as the space jam. It is a basketball game that determines the fate of the world.

2.

·       Michael Jordan the god.

·       The universe.

·       The most important basketball game in the universe.

3.

·       They keep asking if you are ready to play/watch basketball.

·       Wow this pretty abstract if I do say so myself.

·       Nope

·       The diction of this song makes it into the groovy song it is

4.

·       This poem is very ambiguous

·       The two words that set the tone in this song are Space and Jam

·       The tone stays the same. It is still ambiguous.

5.

·       “Come on and slam and welcome to the jam” is probably one of the more integral metrical pattern lines. The line is 9 words long.

·       The stanza is 31 words long

·       The rhyme scheme is “AA BB”

·       He does not employ any other metrical devices

·       Open poem

6.

·       The fact that this song is about basketball is alluded to multiple times.

·       They use some onomatopoeia

·       Yes the poet does.

·       There is some metonymy

·       There is quite a bit of punctuation

·       This title is the absolute BEST title the author could have chosen

7.

·       The writer is not trying to get his experiences across he’s trying to give me my own experience

·       I felt my own experience and it was amazing

·       It indeed does

 

 

 

 

Everybody get up it’s time to slam now

We got a real jam goin’ down

Welcome to the Space Jam

Here’s your chance do your dance at the Space Jam

Alright

Come on and slam and welcome to the jam

Come on and slam if you want to jam

Party people in the house lets go

It’s your boy “Jayski” a’ight so

Pass that thing and watch me flex

Behind my back, you know what’s next

To the jam, all in your face

Wassup, just feel the bass

Drop it, rock it, down the room

Shake it, quake it, space KABOOM

Just work that body, work that body

Make sure you don’t hurt nobody

Get wild and lose your mind

Take this thing into over-time

Hey DJ, TURN IT UP

QCD, goin’ burn it up

C’mon y’all get on the floor

So hey, let’s go a’ight

Everybody get up it’s time to slam now

We got a real jam goin’ down

Welcome to the Space Jam

Here’s your chance do your dance at the Space Jam

Alright

Wave your hands in the air if you feel fine

We’re gonna take it into overtime

Welcome to the Space Jam

Here’s your chance, do your dance at the Space Jam

Alright

C’mon it’s time to get hyped say hoop there it is

C’mon all the fellas say hoop there it is

C’mon one time for the ladies say hoop there it is

Now all the fellas say hoop there it is

C’mon and run, baby run

C’mon, c’mon, do it, run baby run

Yeah, you want a hoop so shoot, baby shoot

C’mon and slam, and welcome to the jam

C’mon and slam, if you want to jam

C’mon and slam, and welcome to the jam

C’mon and slam, if you want to jam

Slam, Bam, Thank you ma’am

Get on the floor and jam

It’s the QCD on the microphone

Girl you got me in the zone

C’mon, c’mon and start the game

Break it down, tell me your name

We the team, I’m the coach

Let’s dance all night from coast to coast

Just slide, from left to right

Just slide, yourself the night

QCD, drop the base

3-point-1 all in your face

Jam on it, let’s have some fun

Jam on it, One on One

You run the hole and I run the “D”

So c’mon baby just jam for me

Everybody get up it’s time to slam now

We got a real jam goin’ down

Welcome to the Space Jam

Here’s your chance do your dance at the Space Jam

Alright

Wave your hands in the air if you feel fine

We’re gonna take it into overtime

Welcome to the Space Jam

Here’s your chance, do your dance at the Space Jam

Alright

Hey ladies

“Yah”

Y’all ready stop

“NO!”

Y’all want to know why

“Why?”

‘Cause it’s a Slam Jam

Fellas

“Yah”

Y’all ready to stop

“No!”

Y’all want to know why?

“Why?”

It’s time to slam now

Everybody get up it’s time to slam now

We got a real jam goin’ down

Welcome to the Space Jam

Here’s your chance do your dance at the Space Jam

Alright

Wave your hands in the air if you feel fine

We’re gonna take it into overtime

Welcome to the Space Jam

Here’s your chance, do your dance at the Space Jam

Alright

C’mon, everybody say, nah nah nah nah nah

C’mon, C’mon let me hear you say, hey ey ey o

C’mon, C’mon everybody, nah nah nah nah nah

Just take the time to say hey ey ey o

Check it out, check it out, y’all ready for this? You know it

Nah, y’all ain’t ready, y’all ready for this? You know it

C’mon check it out, y’all ready to jam? You know it

Nah, I, I don’t think so, y’all ready to jam? You know it

C’mon

 

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September 22

Should Sam Wear a Skirt?

This is a project on the short story Sam the Athlete, we had to say whether we agreed or disagreed with him continuing to wear the skirt.

“Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.” I feel like this line right here sums up the entire story in ten words. Don’t get me wrong Stuart Mclean is a great author but “Sam the Athlete” could have been summed up in just those ten words. Sam is an athlete who is having troubles with sports but sticks to it and joins a co-ed team, he pretends to be a girl until he finds out he doesn’t actually have to. Sam should have continued to wear that skirt, it helped him get to where he is now. The “skirt” wasn’t even a skirt it was a kilt, “And it was Morley who told him the skirt was called a kilt”, a quote directly from the book.

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