Today we are going to finish the short story outlines on "Blues Ain't No Mockin' Bird", outline essay on Pa Sexton and Granddaddy Cain and take a quiz. First you need to take notes on colons and write sentences with Luxuriant and Dictum
Things to look for
1) Allusions
2) Metaphors
3) Similes
4) Descriptions of Granddaddy Cain
5) Descriptions of Granny Cain
6) Symbols
7) Examples of dialect
Remember you will be either comparing Granddaddy Cain with Pa Sexton.
Definition of Blues:
noun
1.
melancholic music of black
American folk origin, typically in a twelve-bar sequence. It developed
in the rural southern US toward the end of the 19th century, finding a
wider audience in the 1940s as blacks migrated to the cities. This urban
blues gave rise to rhythm and blues and rock and roll.
New Vocabulary
Odious
Luxuriant
Dictum
Cacophony
Proclivity
Proboscis
Stratum
Mausoleum
Marionette
Phoenix
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