Using evidence from Adrienne Rich’s work, discuss what the tapestry that Aunt Jennifer reveals about the main character. What is significant about the scene that Aunt Jennifer is portraying in her drapery? Who or what do the various creatures in her artwork represent?
Using evidence from the text, discuss what the speaker’s attitude is towards the creature Elizabeth Bishop’s “The Fish.” Why does this individual feel this way about the fish? What is the deeper meaning behind the various images of the creature put forth in this poem?
The Fish
Elizabeth Bishop – 1911-1979
I caught a tremendous fish
and held him beside the boat
half out of water, with my hook
fast in a corner of his mouth.
He didn’t fight.
He hadn’t fought at all.
He hung a grunting weight,
battered and venerable
and homely. Here and there
his brown skin hung in strips
like ancient wallpaper,
and its pattern of darker brown
was like wallpaper:
shapes like full-blown roses
stained and lost through age.
He was speckled with barnacles,
fine rosettes of lime,
and infested
with tiny white sea-lice,
and underneath two or three
rags of green weed hung down.
While his gills were breathing in
the terrible oxygen
—the frightening gills,
fresh and crisp with blood,
that can cut so badly—
I thought of the coarse white flesh
packed in like feathers,
the big bones and the little bones,
the dramatic reds and blacks
of his shiny entrails,
and the pink swim-bladder
like a big peony.
I looked into his eyes
which were far larger than mine
but shallower, and yellowed,
the irises backed and packed
with tarnished tinfoil
seen through the lenses
of old scratched isinglass.
They shifted a little, but not
to return my stare.
—It was more like the tipping
of an object toward the light.
I admired his sullen face,
the mechanism of his jaw,
and then I saw
that from his lower lip
—if you could call it a lip—
grim, wet, and weaponlike,
hung five old pieces of fish-line,
or four and a wire leader
with the swivel still attached,
with all their five big hooks
grown firmly in his mouth.
A green line, frayed at the end
where he broke it, two heavier lines,
and a fine black thread
still crimped from the strain and snap
when it broke and he got away.
Like medals with their ribbons
frayed and wavering,
a five-haired beard of wisdom
trailing from his aching jaw.
I stared and stared
and victory filled up
the little rented boat,
from the pool of bilge
where oil had spread a rainbow
around the rusted engine
to the bailer rusted orange,
the sun-cracked thwarts,
the oarlocks on their strings,
the gunnels—until everything
was rainbow, rainbow, rainbow!
And I let the fish go.
This assignment is asking you to consider the nature of internal and external crime so you will need to define these terms, and explain why you are doing so, in the early stages of the essay. You will need to evaluate the ways and means of preventing loss, of which there are a range of methods and stages, and choose a specific focus to make the task manageable. It may be that you discuss a specific type of crime, for example fraud (which can be perpetrated by employees as well as the general public), but again ensure you provide a clear definition of this and justification to why. Again some consideration of how preventative methods have been arrived at is necessary. It is important that you discuss practical measures but you may want to extend your scope to partnership agencies such as the criminal justice system that may play a role. As always you must support your discussion and critical analysis with reference to academic literature.
Write one love letter and one rejection letter
In a complete essay, provide an iconographical analysis for the painting, Jean de Dintevile and Georges de Selve “The Ambassadors”. How does this still life communicate a moral message?
Prompt: Sometimes, determining the reliability of a source is easy. Below is a real person’s reaction to the safety message about Pokemon Go. Its on a website called “Literally Unbelievable.”
“Safety FTW: The Pokemon in Pokemon Go Will Now Scream When A Player is Within A Mile Of A Registered Sex Offender.” See the person’s response below the image of Charmander.
This is amusing and its easy to see that Pokemon Go does not link itself to a sex offender registry. But, sometimes its more challenging to determine the readability of a source.
So how do we know when a source is reliable? Share your thoughts with class. What do YOU think makes a source “reliable?” What do you look for when deciding?
Then, consider the CRAP
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test. (Yes, its a real thing). Is the CRAP test a good way to distinguish reliable sources from unreliable ones? Share your opinion with class.
Reference
Hongo, H. (2016). Pokemon Go Characters Scream Within 1 Miles of Sex Offender. Literally Unbelievable. [https://literallyunbelievable.tumblr.com/].
As has been discussed in class all semester, essays ultimately work to persuade a reader, to prove to the skeptic or ideal reader that the thesis statement is true. This particular project calls for the student to choose a contemporary issue of some controversy or significance, to take a stand on the issue, and to write an essay defending that position. Logic, appeals to authority, appeals to emotion, and refuting the opposition are all approaches that are useful in the art of persuasion.
A writer or speaker, unless she/he is a noted expert in a respective field, must often rely on research (authority) in order to substantiate claims. For this reason, and because it is always helpful to become better acquainted with the college’s library, there will be a research component to this assignment. Students must incorporate at least two outside sources into the paper and document them in MLA format. (This goes for quoting, paraphrasing, and statistics.) Also, no more than one Internet site may be used; therefore, at least one source must be print format (newspapers, magazines, academic journals, or books are acceptable). Finally, essays from the textbook or readings for class do not count as one of the two required sources.
This project should follow the format specifics noted in the course syllabus (3-4 pages, 12 point Times New Roman font, typed, double-spaced, paginated, etc.)
The project topic is relatively open. Students may expand upon the ideas presented in the unit’s readings or develop their own. Think locally and globally here, and be creative. Students may NOT write about the following overdone topics:
* abortion
* gun control
* physician-assisted suicide
* legalization of drugs
* gay marriage
* adjusting the drinking age
* the death penalty
* obesity
* steroids in sports
* texting and driving
* paying student-athletes
* stem cell research
* vaccinations
Instead, seek issues that do not automatically foster cultural consensus or necessarily have easy answers, and learn a bit more about them. In a year that has yielded discourse on politics, guns, race, the media, economics, and class, American society offers no shortage of potential subjects.
Select at least 5 of the sources about media studies, and write a paper that synthesizes the arguments in these texts. Trying to develop a coherent picture of the “gist” of what’s going on, and you are not making your own argument about the topic.
Introductory Discussion Board Post
answer these 3 questions
What do you wish to be called and what are your preferred pronouns?
2. How will this course help you achieve your future goal(s)?
3. If you were a season (spring, summer, fall or winter), which one would you be and why?
Special educators must be able to effectively plan for students at all ages and abilities, using data and anecdotal information. An effective plan takes into consideration a student’s developmental level, age, strengths, needs, learning preferences, culture, and interests. Interventions that are well planned for students and are based on these factors are far more effective than interventions that narrowly focus only on the student’s academic skill deficiencies.
In this assignment, practice developing ELA instruction that is appropriate for the students described in the “Class Profile” by designing a comprehensive ELA unit plan using the “5-Day Unit Plan Template.”
Part 1: Unit Plan
Develop a 5-day unit plan that integrates vocabulary, reading, grammar, writing, listening and speaking, and technology, for the “Class Profile” students, choosing either the resource or self-contained learning environment. In a typical resource or self-contained learning environment the teacher would differentiate for every student. For this assignment, choose three students for whom you will differentiate the instruction. Align your unit to a 6-12 grade level ELA standard from the Arizona or another state academic content standards.
Design the unit plan to include:
National/State Learning Standards: Select standards that address reading, writing, speaking, and listening integration skills.
Multiple Means of Representation: Select strategies that allow opportunities to develop oral and written language for students with disabilities. Incorporate individual abilities, interests, learning environments, and cultural and linguistic factors in the section.
Multiple Means of Engagement: Select strategies to enhance language development and communication skills.
Multiple Means of Expression: Use technically sound formal and informal assessment.
Extension Activity and/or Homework: Incorporate activities that include critical thinking and problem-solving.
In the Differentiation rows of the unit plan template focus on the three students you selected.
Part 2: Rationale
In 250-500 words rationale at the bottom of your unit plan, explain the following:
How literacy skills from your lesson plan will be helpful for students in other content areas.
How communication and language arts strategies prepare students and provide them strategies to be successful academically and personally across multiple settings with a variety of collaborators (e.g., individuals, families, and teams).
Support your findings with a minimum of three scholarly resources.
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