Encouragement BY: BARBIE BECKER AND LILLY FUENTES

"Waka Waka (This Time For Africa)"  Oooeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeehh You're a good soldier Choosing your battles Pick yourself up And dust yourself off Get back in the saddle You're on the front line Everyone's watching You know it's serious We are getting closer This isn't over The pressure is on You feel it But you got it all Believe it When you fall get up, oh oh If you fall get up, eh eh Tsamina mina zangalewa Cuz this is Africa Tsamina mina, eh eh Waka waka, eh eh Tsamina mina zangalewa This time for Africa Listen to your God This is our motto Your time to shine Don't wait in line Y vamos por todo People are raising Their expectations Go on and feed them This is your moment No hesitations Today's your day I feel it You paved the way Believe it  If you get down get up, oh oh When you get down get up, eh eh Tsamina mina zangalewa This time for Africa Tsamina mina, eh eh Waka waka, eh eh Tsamina mina zangalewa Anawa a a Tsamina mina, eh eh Waka waka, eh eh Tsamina mina zangalewa This time for Africa [Zolani sings] Ame la mejole biggi biggi mubbo wa ET to Zet Asi tsu zala makyuni biggi biggi mubbo from East to West Asi waga waga ma eh eh waga waga ma eh eh Tendency suna tsibuye cuz this is africa... [Voice:] Tsamina mina, Anawa a a Tsamina mina Tsamina mina, Anawa a a Tsamina mina, eh eh Waka waka, eh eh Tsamina mina zangalewa Anawa a a Tsamina mina, eh eh Waka waka, eh eh Tsamina mina zangalewa This time for Africa [2x] Django eh eh [2x] Tsamina mina zangalewa Anawa a a [2x] This time for Africa [2x] We're all Africa Paraphrase: Believe in yourself, and even when you make a mistake just get back up. We all want you to exceed and the time to do that is now! Connotation: The first two stanzas of the song are an extended metaphor on solders in battle. “people are raising their expectations go ahead and feed them” Is personification to further elaborate the authors ideas. Theme: The theme of this poem is to encourage, to inspire, and to help others know that people believe in them, even when they don't believe in themselves. Title 1: A call to action Title 2: Encouraging those to do their best Attitude: The speaker lets off an encouraging and hopeful tone, she's trying to rally up her listeners into believing in themselves. The last couple stanzas show that the singer believes in who she's singing to, and so do many others. Shifts: The shifts occur every time there is a chorus. The first segment before the chorus talks about battles, while the second segment is more of a call to action rather than the extended metaphor. Both these shifts show transitions on how to encourage people, first from explaining their situation to them telling them how well that can do while they are in it. Poetic devices: Extended metaphors are present in the beginning of the song. The poem style is Euphony, but the stanzas do not fit in a pattern. An Apostrophe is present, “ listen to your god” seen in example. By: Shakira

Oooeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeehh You're a good soldier Choosing your battles Pick yourself up And dust yourself off Get back in the saddle You're on the front line Everyone's watching You know it's serious We are getting closer This isn't over The pressure is on You feel it But you got it all Believe it When you fall get up, oh oh If you fall get up, eh eh Tsamina mina zangalewa Cuz this is Africa Tsamina mina, eh eh Waka waka, eh eh Tsamina mina zangalewa This time for Africa Listen to your God This is our motto Your time to shine Don't wait in line Y vamos por todo People are raising Their expectations Go on and feed them This is your moment No hesitations Today's your day I feel it You paved the way Believe it If you get down get up, oh oh When you get down get up, eh eh Tsamina mina zangalewa This time for Africa Tsamina mina, eh eh Waka waka, eh eh Tsamina mina zangalewa Anawa a a Tsamina mina, eh eh Waka waka, eh eh Tsamina mina zangalewa This time for Africa [Zolani sings] Ame la mejole biggi biggi mubbo wa ET to Zet Asi tsu zala makyuni biggi biggi mubbo from East to West Asi waga waga ma eh eh waga waga ma eh eh Tendency suna tsibuye cuz this is africa... [Voice:] Tsamina mina, Anawa a a Tsamina mina Tsamina mina, Anawa a a Tsamina mina, eh eh Waka waka, eh eh Tsamina mina zangalewa Anawa a a Tsamina mina, eh eh Waka waka, eh eh Tsamina mina zangalewa This time for Africa [2x] Django eh eh [2x] Tsamina mina zangalewa Anawa a a [2x] This time for Africa [2x] We're all Africa

‘Still I Rise’ by Maya Angelou  You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may tread me in the very dirt But still, like dust, I'll rise. Does my sassiness upset you? Why are you beset with gloom? 'Cause I walk like I've got oil wells Pumping in my living room. Just like moons and like suns, With the certainty of tides, Just like hopes springing high, Still I'll rise. Did you want to see me broken? Bowed head and lowered eyes? Shoulders falling down like teardrops. Weakened by my soulful cries. Does my haughtiness offend you? Don't you take it awful hard 'Cause I laugh like I've got gold mines Diggin' in my own back yard. You may shoot me with your words, You may cut me with your eyes, You may kill me with your hatefulness, But still, like air, I'll rise. Out of the huts of history's shame I rise Up from a past that's rooted in pain I rise I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide, Welling and swelling I bear in the tide. Leaving behind nights of terror and fear I rise Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear I rise Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise I rise I rise. Title: I will be able to overcome. Paraphrase: The narrator describes in the first stanza that no matter what she is put through she will still ride to her full potential. Her life she is filled with power from within. Consumed by courage, being confident, she lets no persons opinion bring her down or change her mind. (stanza 6). She asks “does my haughtiness upset you?” in other words, are people annoyed or bothered by her confidence and strength she has in herself? She will rise over everything, all the pain that her ancestors have suffered through. She will rise. Connotation: confidence was in the tone of the narrators voice. There was a use of repetition of the small phrase “I’ll rise”. Se used an apostrophe throughout the poem, as if talking to a specific person. Many examples of metaphors were present like “cause I walk like I got oil wells pumping in my living room” and personifications like “ you may shoot me with your words” or “you may cut me with your eyes”. Imagery was also used: “from the past that is rooted with pain”. Attitude: there is a tone of inspiring and a strong tone of perseverance Shift: Stanza 1 and 2, the author asks rhetorical questions as if she already knows the answers. Stanza 3 the author starts using nature similes to show how powerful and confident she is I herself. Stanza 5 the author uses a simile expressing how money can cause people to have confidence. Stanza 6 she uses personification on how the way people carry themselves can have an effect on others. With just a look you can make someone feel so small. Now the last stanza using repetition, exemplifies the author believing in herself with no one influences on her. She states how she’s a role model for others and how preforming what you believe in is the most important thing Title: (same as before) Theme: Do/Practice what you believe in. Don’t let others push you down or influence your decisions. “Rise” to your potential. Poetic devices: This poem is an ABCD poem, and also an apostrophe. The third stanza holds and eye rhyme (tide and rise) and multiple occurrences of repitition are used. What is also used more than once is personification too, and example being “shoot me with your words” in stanza 6.

 You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may tread me in the very dirt But still, like dust, I'll rise. Does my sassiness upset you? Why are you beset with gloom? 'Cause I walk like I've got oil wells Pumping in my living room. Just like moons and like suns, With the certainty of tides, Just like hopes springing high, Still I'll rise. Did you want to see me broken? Bowed head and lowered eyes? Shoulders falling down like teardrops. Weakened by my soulful cries. Does my haughtiness offend you? Don't you take it awful hard 'Cause I laugh like I've got gold mines Diggin' in my own back yard.  You may shoot me with your words, You may cut me with your eyes, You may kill me with your hatefulness, But still, like air, I'll rise. Out of the huts of history's shame I rise Up from a past that's rooted in pain I rise I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide, Welling and swelling I bear in the tide. Leaving behind nights of terror and fear I rise Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear I rise Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise I rise I rise.

Breaking Free by Robino  ~Saturated (deep colors that weren’t lightened- original [typical] colors)  ~Oil or acrylic painting  ~One side of dark colors, where the brush style is precise.  ~Not a famous painter  ~Left side brush style is “flow-y”, using long strokes.  Tone is independent and inspiring.

Poem vs painting vs song Compare:  All three of these of our selections display encouragement through metaphors and similes. Also, they all tell the underlying story to not pay attention to what people say about you. All three display the importance of confidence and to stand up for your self and what you believe in. Contrast:  The song gives off the tone of fighting together, as if it was encouraging a team or a group, while the poem and the pictures theme seem more singular and dependent, as if you were fighting a battle all on your own. The song also says that we will win and that we will try our best while the poem and the picture seem to inspire hope and to say no matter what you do, you'll never push or stop me.

“ ” Waka Waka (This Time For Africa) S ONG TIME !