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English 9 Poetry Project

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WWF Marine Life Cycle Diagram – Watershed Moment

The Ocean

By: Damian Dodge

The ocean is a place of second chances. 

It is a place where you can be reborn, 

It is a place that leads into the afterlife, 

It is a place of joy and wonder. 

 

The Ocean is a place where you can wash away your previous life 

A place where you can start anew. 

A place where there is hope 

A place where dreams come true

 

The Ocean is a place of new horizons 

A place where you can find peace 

A place where you can explore 

A place where you can discover 

 

The beauty of peace. 

The radiance of the sun. 

The bridge of life. 

And the freedom of life.

 

Damian Dodge’s poem The Ocean is about how the ocean is related to second chances. The poet used many literary devices like metaphors, repetition, hyperbole’s, etc to display the theme of the poem. A quote from the poem that shows this is “A place where you can start anew.” This is true because the poet is using a metaphor to describe how the ocean is a place where you can start anew/ start a new life which is related to second chances in life. This can be true through a behavior change or when you move somewhere else since you are starting in a new area which you know nothing about/ starting another life in an unfamiliar place. Another place where the poem refers to the ocean being related to second chances is when the poet says “it is a place where you can be reborn.” like the first quote I mentioned this one talks about being reborn which is related to getting a second chance in your life since when you are reborn you are thought to be different from your old self. The insight of life from the poem is that many things can be related to each other/ interconnectedness. Since the ocean’s denotative meaning is not related to death but its connotative meaning is related to the ocean since the ocean in many religions is thought to be a bridge into the afterlife. In the end what I personally took away from the poem is that everything can be compared to something like the ocean to second chances.

 

The Bird by Patrick Lane 

The Bird by Patrick Lane is my favorite poem out of the poetry package because of many reasons. Firstly I love the use of a hyperbole in line 5 and 6. “You wanted to cage a bird in your hands and learn to fly.” The reason I like this hyperbole is because it displays human greed since the human in this scenario wants to take something from the bird. This line is also relevant in our world since when we cage birds we get rid of their freedom since when you think of freedom you normally think of the ability to fly since your movement isn’t restrained by gravity. Another thing I liked about this poem is the metaphor at the end of the poem. “A bird is a poem that talks about the end of cages.” The reason I like this part of the poem is because it is very vivid imagery and is also relevant in our world like the first quote. What I got out of this phrase is that poetry is free like a bird since a poem can be anything from closed to free verse poems/ describing indescribable things. Which is similar to the freedom birds have since you can use your words freely with poetry to describe indescribable things while birds aren’t restrained by the power of gravity. In conclusion the Bird by Patrick Lane is my favorite poem out of all the poems we went over because of its relevance to our world.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Whirligig Novel COL Assignment

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This is my COL assignment on the book Whirligig by Paul Fleischman. The theme I explore the most in my post is self identity. Since in Brent’s post I talked about his change especially in the last one where he reflects on his old self and sees how far he has come. My post reflects Brent’s journey since the first 3 go over his obsession about wanting to get popular while his 4th post is still like old Brent since he thinks making the whirligigs are dumb. But on 5 and 6 he isn’t down and he is more happy and accepts that making whirligigs are a part of his identity. This project challenged both my critical and creative thinking since I had to think of creative ways that Stephanie would start talking to Brent. I also had to use the book to look at the characteristics and ideals of the characters so I wouldn’t be writing things out of character. Because for example if I talked about how Pre-Whirligig Stephanie heavily believed in unseen forces that would not be true since even Post-Whirligig Stephanie doesn’t heavily believe in unseen forces she only slightly believes in them.

HCE 9 –English Assignment

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This is my HCE assignment

I was flying in an unknown territory when I decided to rest on a wire. I then heard some other birds to my right, so I turned, and they were holding signs which said Migrants not welcome and keep off our worms. I was confused because I don’t know what I did wrong, they wanted me to leave their turf despite me doing nothing bad so far. It might be because I was smaller than them or more vibrant but still, I thought other birds would be more inclusive towards outsiders. Though one of the birds looked sad, kind of like he was peer pressured to come here I feel sympathy for that bird. I have been peer pressured before to do bad things.

Indigenous Exploration Residential Schools

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This is our podcast about residential schools

 

Indigenous Exploration Self- Reflection

1. My experience creating this assignment was good because I got to learn a lot more about the atrocities that the first nations people had to endure. 

2. Our path in researching the topic was searching up many relevant topics that were related to the residential schools and then we used the info we found to write our script for the podcast. 

3. Some obstacles and items we learnt in recording was people walking by and talking very loudly which caused us to have to edit out their voices and the leaves in the background were very loud and we also had to edit out the noise that the leaves made. 

Option 1: My artifact ties in with what I have learned before because I had to use critical thinking in this assignment when deciding what words and sites I should use when writing the script. My thinking has changed because I now know what the First nations people went through. Parents had to say goodbye to their children who were forcefully taken away from them and children who attended the residential schools were given horrible treatment they weren’t even allowed to speak in their own language, or else they would get punished by an electric chair or other horrible punishments that should never happen to children because the upcoming generation of first nations adults would be more aggressive and possibly become addicted to drugs so they could forget about their previous experiences at the residential schools. In the end this assignment really helped me understand the atrocity’s the first nations people had to endure. 

 

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