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Today's Agenda ~

* Regular seating
* Review grammar worksheets from yesterday:

1. passed / past --> I walked past Dr. Walker. I passed Dr. Walker in the hall.
2. moral / morale --> The cupcakes were an excellent boost for the team's morale. The moral of the story was to be careful who to trust.
3. stationary / stationery --> The teacher used pretty stationery to send home progress reports. A fire hydrant is stationary; it cannot be moved.
4. lead / led / lead --> The drum major will lead the band. The teacher led the class to the auditorium. The lead in my pencil broke.

* Discuss chapter 5 and chapter 6 of Frederick Douglass. NEED THE STUDY GUIDE? CLICK HERE!
* Poetry: "All" by Bei Dao -- connect to literary devices

• repetition / anaphora
• paradox / antithesis / hyperbole
• figurative language
• mood / tone
• speaker / unreliable narrator (?)
• couplet
• stanza
• free verse poetry
• connotation / denotation
• imagery

* Vocabulary review, lessons 3-4: emissary has to do with a person on a mission. herald is a messenger.
* Announcements: no textbooks tomorrow; bring Frederick Douglass books tomorrow; quiz over grammar concepts (commonly confused words) and chapters 5-9 on FRIDAY; rough drafts returned on Friday
* Progress reports need to be signed and returned by this Friday
* Read / start discussing chapter 7 in Frederick Douglass.

* Standards met today: 10.3.3, 10.3.4, 10.3.5, 10.3.6, 10.3.7, 10.3.12, 10.3.13,

"Also All" by Shu Ting

“Also All (in answer to Bei Dao’s ‘All’)” by Shu Ting [trans. Donald Finkel and Jinsheng Yi] (literature text, p. 219)

Not all trees are felled by storms.
Not every seed finds barren soil.
Not all the wings of dream are broken,
nor is all affection doomed
to wither in a desolate heart.

No, not all is as you say.

Not all flames consume themselves,
shedding no light on other lives.
Not all stars announce the night
and never dawn. Not every song
will drift past every ear and heart.

No, not all is as you say.

Not every cry for help is silenced,
Nor every loss beyond recall.
Not every chasm spells disaster.
Not only the weak will be brought to their knees,
Nor every soul be trodden under.

It won’t all end in tears and blood.
Today is heavy with tomorrow –
the future was planted yesterday.
Hope is a burden all of us shoulder
though we might stumble under the load.

"All" by Bei Dao

“All” by Bei Dao [trans. Donald Finkel and Xueliang Chen] (literature text, p. 218)

All is fated,
all cloudy,

all an endless beginning,
all a search for what vanishes,

all joys grave,
all griefs tearless,

every speech a repetition,
every meeting a first encounter,

all love buried in the heart,
all history prisoned in a dream,

all hope hedged with doubt,
all faith drowned in lamentation.

Every explosion heralds an instant of stillness,
every death reverberates forever.