Tuesday

Today you have some time to work on short story outlines for  "The Split-Cherry Tree", then we are going to read "Blues Ain't No Mockin' Bird" - and look for imagery, allusions, metaphors, similes, symbols, dialect, and irony.  You need to take notes on the description of Granddaddy Cain

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

Pedantry
Odious
Luxuriant
Dictum
Cacophony
Proclivity
Proboscis
Stratum
Mausoleum
Marionette
Phoenix  

http://musicalperceptions.blogspot.com/2005/11/how-to-sing-blues.html