Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Poetry Terms

1. Rhyme- Using the same vowel and consonant sound at the end of two words
2. Repition- Using the same word or phrase more than once
3. Allteration- Using the same consonant at the beginning if words
4. Symbol- Its an object, person, or idea that stands for something beyond itsself
5. Imagery- Words and phrases that appeal to your senses
6. Figurative- Metaphor- The comparison of one thing to the other without using like or as
7. Simile- Comparison between two things using like or as
8. Peraonification- Is a description of something that is non human as if they were human
9. Narriitive- Tells a story
10. Lyric Poem- Expresses the thoughts and feeling of a single speaker

Ballad Poem- Slavery

Imported Africans from Africa
Turned them into slaves like they did in Egypt
Brought them to the U.S.

Made them grow and pick cotton
Sold the cotton
South became the richest the richest place to live

The more land that you have the more slaves you own
Large plantation owners were the wealthiest in the south
After a while the South became the largest place for slave trade

South Carolina suceeded from the union because of the issue of slavery
South Carolina leaving was like losing a peice of the family
The North and South were divided

Abraham Lincoln saved the day like superman
Abraham's speech at Getysburg set the slaves free
Lincoln was assasinated at a theatre by an actor that supported slavery

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Sunday, March 27, 2011

Historical Context

1. The Holocaust begin after the Germans lost in WWII and they blamed their defeat on the Jews. Hitler came into power and he started his reign on the Jewish people.
2. The definition of the Holocaust is the mass murder of Jews and other ethinicity groups. Jews were forced  out their homes and sent to concentration camps.
3. Adolf Hitler was the leader of the Nazi party, he blamed the Jews for their loss of World WarII. Hitler believed that only true germans had the right to live.
4. Nazi soldiers would execute the Jews by the hundreds. They seperated the jews by women and men and the young men were sent to go work. 
5.  Hitler created Ghettos for Jews to live in. When Hitler created the Ghettos it was built to break them physically and mentally.   
6. When Japan attacked us in Pearle Harbor thats how we got involved in World WarII. During the war they killed or wounded 3,500 people and sank 18 ships.
7. The Nazis banned the Jews from serving in the army. Jews werent allowed to teach Germans or from being a accountant or a dentist.
8. Hitler banned the Jews froom owning their owwn buisness. They also ordered Jews over the age of 15 to get a identity card  to be shown to any police officer.
9. Nazis arrested 17,000 Jews living of Polish nationality living in Germany. Jewish students are expelled fron all non-Jewish German schools.
10. Nazis forced Jews to give up all gold and silver items. Polish Jews over the age of ten had to wear yellow stars.
11. Hitler choose the town of Auschwitz to build a new concentration camp. The lodz ghetto kepted 230,000 Jews locked in and sealed off from the rest of the world.
12. 74,000 Jews including chilldren were sent to Auschwitz. They burned the bodies that were killed in Auschwitz.

Thursday, March 24, 2011

Anne Frank- Stage Adaptation

The play begins when Mr. Frank is talking to Miep about how he has to quit his job because the Germans forced him out of his job. He told his family what happened and told them that they had to pack and they were moving into this attic where they would be living with three other people and one family. The three people were the Van Danns and thier son Peter. They meet Mr. Kraler  and he is going to tell them the news thats going on in the world and Miep is going to bring the two families food. As they start to settle in they start to have issues like they think that the mice is stealing thier food. they find out that Mr. Van Dann is stealing thier food when they are sleeping. When they found out who was stealing their food they threatened to kick the Van Danns out of the building. Mrs. Frank was furious when she found out who stealing their food because they we were all starving and Mr. Van Dann was the reason why they were starving. Also a thief breaks into the building that they are hiding in and steals thier cash box and their radio. While the thief was taking thier stuff Peter falls and makes a big noise causing the thief to run away, but later on in the play the thief that ran away is the reason for them getting caught and them getting sent to concentration camps. At the end of the story Mr. Frank is the only person that survived out of all of them and the rest of them were killed in gas chambers or killed by disease.