Speak Week Two

Agenda Extended Metaphor Memoir- 0’s go in today 20 minute Reading Time- Annotate!!!! Tree, questions, vocab, judgments Illustration Gallery Walk Caption Cards Artist’s Statement Submission Question Review Quiz Time What is Objectification?

Speaking and listening Mark (d) Each one that we do has a significant impact on your grade. You will come in at lunch ready to talk to me in person about the setting of your book and the influence that it has on the characters. (When, Where, Influence) Tuesday @ lunch: Victoria B, Fabio, Johnny, Jessica, Noritaka, Liran Wednesday @ lunch: Liam, Jordan, Jayden, Ian O, Jessilyn, Mark, Beth

Speaking and listening Mark (A) Each one that we do has a significant impact on your grade. You will come in at lunch ready to talk to me in person about the setting of your book and the influence that it has on the characters. (When, Where, Influence) Wednesday @ lunch: Hikmat, Claudia, Chan, Mackenzie F, Luke, Alyssa, Ryan Thursday @ lunch: Ben, Conor, Taylor, Kailee, Rachel, Elizabeth

Who has a tree??

Those who have a tree.. For those of you who have a tree you will sticky tack them to the cupboard doors or the windows and place a caption card next to it. Everyone will then take turns to walk around and consider the choices that everyone made with their tree illustrations.

Caption cards Marking 5 = careful attention to a wide range of details from the novel. - Color and appearance are based on her art lessons, season, experiences, surroundings. 3 = choices about colour and appearance may lack direct connection to Melinda’s experience. - Adequate range of details gathered from the process of annotation Each caption card must have 2 commenters. Name: Arborist: Quote: Artistic Choices: Connection to Melinda: /5

Artist’s Statement What artistic choices did you make? Once you have received two different reviewers then you will take your illustration and caption card down from the wall. You will then turn the card over and write an Artist’s Statement. What artistic choices did you make? What meaning did you want to communicate? Was there anything that was mentioned by the reviewers that you had not considered?

Into the Folder On the Reading side of your folder you will paperclip your: Tree illustration Reading response Annotation Caption card

Question Review

Quiz Time You will Need: A Pen A piece of loose leaf (number it 1-10) Separate your desks Protect your answers If there is talking then I take your sheet and you get a 0 There is only one right answer! All questions are for Marking Period ONE

Take your time answering because you cannot change your answer after it is on the page.

Put your mark at the bottom of the page If there are any correction or scratches out then I will mark the question wrong.

Headvoice

Alien, Alien, Alien, Alien, Alien, Alien, Alien

Marking period two

Marking period two “The first thing to go is the mirror. It is screwed to the wall,so I cover it with a poster of Maya Angelou that the librarian gave me. She said Ms. Angelou is one of the greatest American writers. The poster was coming down because the school board banned one of her books. She must be a great writer if the school board is afraid of her. …I figure Maya would like it if I read in here, so I bring a few books from home. Mostly I watch the scary movies playing on the inside of my eyelids. It is getting harder to talk.” (50)

Allusion- Maya Angelou Allusion is a literary term that referring to anytime a writer references a real thing outside of the text. Name dropping/ referencing When Melinda finds a discarded poster of Maya Angelou in the school and chooses to put it up in her janitor’s closet this is an allusion to Maya Angelou. She could have just said A poster, but there is a reason why it is Maya Angelou.

Maya Angelou April 4, 1928 – May 28, 2014 Was an American author, poet, dancer, actress, and singer Her best known work is I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings It is a memoir of the first 17 years of her life. She was active in the Civil Rights movement, and worked with Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X.

Maya and Melinda Angelou’s sometimes-absentee mother, Vivian Baxter, had a steel will and several careers of her own. She was an inadvertent player in an early, formative trauma in Angelou’s life. When Angelou was 8 and briefly living with Baxter in St. Louis, her mother’s boyfriend raped Angelou. The man was arrested, convicted and released; soon after, he was found beaten to death. Believing she had caused the killing because she had told of the rape, Angelou refused to speak for several years; only her beloved older brother, Bailey, could coax her to talk.

society’s view of the black woman is such a threat to her well-being that she will die daily unless she determines how she sees herself. http://www.visionaryproject.org/angeloumaya/#2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIYG9zIUDF0

Caged Bird Is it Natural? No! A free bird leaps on the back of the wind and floats downstream till the current ends and dips his wing in the orange sun rays and dares to claim the sky. But a bird that stalks down his narrow cage can seldom see through his bars of rage his wings are clipped and his feet are tied so he opens his throat to sing. The caged bird sings with a fearful trill of things unknown but longed for still and his tune is heard on the distant hill for the caged bird sings of freedom. Is it Natural? No!

Who is it. Why does he have no name Who is it? Why does he have no name? How could he have done this to Melinda?

Objectification To present or regard as an object: "Because we have objectified animals, we are able to treat them impersonally" (Barry Lopez). To transform a complex, living thing into an object (simplifying them and stripping them of individuality. Results in a lack of Empathy

When we diminish ourselves we are more likely to diminish others and not recognize value and potential.

The teachers and school do this too… By perceiving the students as a herd of animals what does this take away from the students? Individuality Freedom Personality Voice/ Expression

What is Melinda turning herself into? Does she see herself as human? How does she see the people around her? Map out her perceptions of the clans and/ or individuals.

Collage of stereotypes Melinda (in the middle of the collage) The Jocks The Cheerleaders The Teachers Marthas Melinda’s Parents

Author’s Craft Laurie Halse Anderson chose to have Melinda use these stereotypes herself

In the media we are bombarded with stereotypes and objectification It’s a danger to our self-worth if we become desensitized to it and reinforce that it is simply normal to see these images everyday.

Reading an ad… What are these ads trying to sell us? Why do they think that this will work? Is it shocking that some people would not see a problem with a chant like the one at SMU when this is what we are surrounded by?