The Giver is a book by Lois Lowry that takes place in a utopian society. All of the citizens in the community are taught precisely how to act, and everything and everyone is the same. As one of the Final Products for my Dream On: Imaginative Narratives project, I had to write and preform a speech about three […]
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Poetry SLAM – Original Poems
As a part of my Poetry SLAM project, I had to compose six original poems that fit into certain outlines. I wrote a self-portrait poem, a sonnet, a haiku, sestina, a villanelle, and an “Inside this”. Throughout this project, I learned more about my personal writing and noticed some patterns in the themes and word choice […]
Poetry SLAM Analysis – “Mother to Son”
As a part of a recent project, I had to choose a published poem to analyze in a paragraph. We needed to include how word choice and structure affected the tone and theme of the poem. I chose to analyze the poem “Mother to Son” by Langston Hughes, which is about a mother telling her […]