Make-up journal entry for end of Tail of the Bluebird

Kayo has changed over the course of Tail of the Bluebird. We have seen him go from a very empirically driven scientist to a scientist who accepts both the physical and the intangible. This goes against 1) what Kayo would have thought at first when he took the case, and 2) what we as the readers would have anticipated happening. What drives him to this point? Is there a specific turning point in the novel that triggers his interest in the intangible, or yet to slightly abandon true scientific explanation. As I wrote in my personal essay, "As my athletic career crumbled, I filled the time that I would have spent at sports practice playing guitar in my room. The notes fell into place. Instead of asking for a new pair of soccer cleats for my birthday, I asked for a microphone. Instead of going back to the same sports camp I had been going to for six years, I went to jazz camp. As a result, music now defines me. " For me, there was a defining moment. For Kayo there was not. I am intrigued by this, and will definitely explore this further.

Presentation Rubric

Content (50 Points)
        -Provides good insight into the poet/countries style
        -Provides background history of the poet/country
        -Stays on topic

Fluency of speech (10 Points)
        -Speaks clearly
        -No excessive "umms" or "likes"
        -Should not distract from the content

Recitation (30 Points)
         -Clear purposeful delivery
         -Focused and engaging

Engages audience
         -Make the presentation interesting while not taking away from the content
       

Analysis of Jean-Baptiste Tati-Loutard

Throughout these poems, Jean-Baptiste Tati-Loutard plays on the juxtaposition of nature and death. Specific examples of this can be found in "News of My Mother" and "Submarine Tomb". This can be best summed up in the line "And for their funerals we will dry up the sea." Funerals being the representation of death and the sea being the representation of nature. In addition Jean-Baptiste Tati-Loutard discusses different points of perspective by his constant mention of things dealing with above, and below. He continues to discuss trees, suns and stars in lines such as, "before the baobab took aim at a flight of birds" and "I am now very high upon the tree of the seasons"(News of My Mother). He references 'beneath' in his poem "Submarine Tombs" and in lines such as "May the hide of the earth split beneath my feet"("Death and Rebirth") and "beneath the feet of pachyderm tyrants"(Secret Destiny).

Poetic Terms

Metaphor
Simile
Alliteration - repetition of a sound
        Consonance (consonant)
        Assonance (vowel)
Onomatopoeia
Enjambment
Line breaks
Hyperbole
Meter
Rhythm/Beat
Imagery
Line
Stanza
Poetry Forms
Haiku
Epic
Sonnet
Limerick
Villanelle
Sestina
Terzarima
Personification
Humor
Satire
Irony
Parody
Voice
Tone
Mood
Poet/speaker
Rhyme
Repetition
Symbolism
Connotation
Denotation
Ultimate (referring to lines and stanzas)
Penultimate
Foreshadow
Juxtaposition
Oxymoron
Form vs. content
Grammar
Capitalization
Punctuation

Short story brainstorm 2

26 picked at his dry hands until he reached raw skin. His hands were always dry: cracking on his knuckles, and peeling by his nails. It was always worst in summer.The sight of blood soaking into his skin made him flinch. He still was not used to it. It was his first night back. The door was menacing. It peaked through the barricades and cast a vengeful stare at him. The coffee on his desk was still hot. As 26 took a sip, the cheap plastic numbed his hand. For the most part the pain was starting to disappear. There was a radio on the far left corner of his desk that had not moved since he'd been gone. He turned it on and stopped at the channel playing Christmas music. He loved Christmas music. Even in the summer.

Short story brainstorm

Paul liked to buy his daughter costumes at least a month in advance. He was a neurotic single financier with eight white non-iron Brooks Brothers shirts; one for each day of the week and one devoted entirely to holidays . His life ran like clockwork, and he intended to keep it that way. It was September 30 and he intended to purchase his daughter a halloween costume. She was going to be an angel.

Cynthia's lunch was packed for her every day at school. She would have her ham and cheese sandwich and her apple and her carton of milk. Her father varied the vegetables each day on a three day rotation between carrots, celery and cucumbers. She was seven and wanted to be a bunny for halloween.

Hanson was a small wiry man who lived in the back-room of his costume shop. His shop smelled of old rubber. He was comforted by the sounds of Christmas music year round. He listened to one song each month, in order to fully absorb the twelve track Christmas mixed-tape that he had received as a child. September was devoted to "....

Introduce costume shop guy:

Bring them all together:

wife = mystery....

Conflicting Values

Phase Two of Ama Ata Aidoo's Anowa conveys an increasing tension between Anowa and Kofi Ako. In Phase One, the couple reminded me a little of the classic Romeo and Juliet love story. They love each other but due to familial tension they cannot marry let alone be together. Now, in Phase Two, Anowa and Kofi Ako are together but are not able to get along. Anowa is not able to have children, not because of a problem with her womb, but because she is essentially too stressed. Anowa insists that Kofi Ako marry another woman, "as she could help us"(84). Kofi Ako refuses stating that Anowa is the only one he loves and that will not change. To eliminate the stress, Kofi Ako suggests that they hire slaves. Anowa is strongly against this idea as it goes against her morals. Anowa is strongly grounded in her morals, which contributes to her fierce independence. I am not yet sure where this tension will lead. I do not think that Kofi Ako will remarry, and I know that Anowa will not allow slaves. It seems as though they have reached somewhat of a stalemate. I feel as though something big will happen in the next phase that will end this impasse once and for all.