To Build A Fire: Bell Question
To Build A Fire: Bell Question
Bell Question
Write a good solid PARAGRAPH (or
MORE) in your LINED NOTEBOOK!
Monday 2/2:
Tuesday 2/3:
Wednesday 2/4:
The main character in this story
seems to take a pretty easygoing
attitude towards his dangerous
situation. It's not until things are
really, really bad that he starts to
panic. Would he have been
better off if he'd panicked
earlier or was he right to
remain calm for so long?
Why?
To Build a Fire
Bell Question
Write a good solid PARAGRAPH (or
MORE) in your LINED NOTEBOOK!
Thursday 2/5:
Friday 2/6:
Monday 2/9
Sketch
Carl Sandburg
The shadows of the ships
Rock on the crest
In the low blue lustre
Of the tardy and the soft inrolling tide.
A long brown bar at the dip of the sky
Puts an arm of sand in the span of salt.
The lucid and endless wrinkles
Draw in, lapse and withdraw.
Wavelets crumble and white spent bubbles
Wash on the floor of the beach.
Rocking on the crest
In the low blue lustre
Are the shadows of the ships.
Tuesday 2/10
Sketch
Carl Sandburg
The shadows of the ships
Rock on the crest
In the low blue lustre
Of the tardy and the soft inrolling tide.
A long brown bar at the dip of the sky
Puts an arm of sand in the span of salt.
The lucid and endless wrinkles
Draw in, lapse and withdraw.
Wavelets crumble and white spent bubbles
Wash on the floor of the beach.
Rocking on the crest
In the low blue lustre
Are the shadows of the ships.
Wednesday 2/11
I Sing the Battle
By Harry Kemp
I SING the song of the great clean guns that belch forth death
at will.
"Ah, but the wailing mothers, the lifeless forms and still!"
I sing the song of the billowing flags, the bugles that cry before.
"Ah, but the skeletons flapping rags, the lips that speak no
more!"
Thursday 2/12
I Sing the Battle
By Harry Kemp
I SING the song of the great clean guns that belch forth death
at will.
"Ah, but the wailing mothers, the lifeless forms and still!"
I sing the song of the billowing flags, the bugles that cry before.
"Ah, but the skeletons flapping rags, the lips that speak no
more!"
Friday 2/13
The Grave
By Robert Blair
Dull Grave!—thou spoil'st the dance of youthful blood,
Strik'st out the dimple from the cheek of mirth,
And every smirking feature from the face;
Branding our laughter with
the name of madness.
Where are the jesters now? the men of health
Complexionally pleasant? Where the droll,
Whose every look and gesture was a joke
To clapping theatres and shouting crowds,
And made even thick-lipp'd musing Melancholy
To gather up her face into a smile
Before she was aware? Ah! sullen now,
And dumb as the green turf that covers them.
POETRY
Bell Question
Monday 2/16
NO SCHOOL
POETRY
Bell Question
Tuesday 2/17
NO SCHOOL
POETRY
Bell Question
Write a good solid PARAGRAPH (or MORE) in
your LINED NOTEBOOK!
Wednesday 2/18
The Grave
By Robert Blair
Dull Grave!—thou spoil'st the dance of youthful
blood,
Strik'st out the dimple from the cheek of mirth,
And every smirking feature from the face;
Branding our laughter with
the name of madness.
Where are the jesters now? the men of health
Complexionally pleasant? Where the droll,
Whose every look and gesture was a joke
To clapping theatres and shouting crowds,
And made even thick-lipp'd musing Melancholy
To gather up her face into a smile
Before she was aware? Ah! sullen now,
And dumb as the green turf that covers them.
POETRY
Bell Question
Thursday 2/19
The Dawn’s Awake
By Otto Leland Bohanan
POETRY
Bell Question
Friday 2/20
The Dawn’s Awake
By Otto Leland Bohanan
The Dawn's awake!
A flash of smoldering flame and fire
Ignites the East. Then, higher, higher,
O'er all the sky so gray, forlorn°,
The torch of gold is borne.
The Harlem Renaissance was a period of time in the early 20th century,
particularly the 1920s, when African American thought and culture was
redefined. African heritage and roots were embraced by the movement’s young
writers, artists and musicians, who found in Harlem a place to express
themselves. The movement altered not only African American culture, but
American culture as a whole.
POETRY
Bell Question
Monday 2/23
Read the following examples of figurative language.
Identify the poetic device being used.
POETRY
Bell Question
Tuesday 2/24
“He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound’s the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.”
1. Copy this excerpt into your journal.
2. Annotate by underlining, circling,
highlighting at least 4 pieces of
figurative language (use variety) AND
labeling it with its proper term.
POETRY
Bell Question
Wednesday 2/25
Read the following examples of figurative language.
Identify the poetic device being used.
Inferences
Bell Question
Friday 2/27
Read this paragraph from a memoir and then answer the
questions that follow.