My Life as a Song

Think of an event that has taken place in your lifetime that tells the story. Jot down your ideas. Now imagine your story as a song. What type of song would that be?

Last year, my mom forced me to teach a child playing the piano in the orphanage. I thought my mom wanted me to become a helpful and responsible person. Then I thought I could deal with it because I have learned playing the piano for almost ten years. During the teaching, I help that child not only play thew piano, but also identify the sound spectrum clearly because if you know how to read the sound spectrum, you can play the piano properly and directly. Several days later, while I was teaching her, she was paying attention to me and she faced at me with a happy face, then I felt cheerful and glad. After this event, I knew that helping people can gain happiness and have some rewards.

Quick Write - The Gift

Try to recall a time when a parent, a teacher or a friend did something special for you that you would like to be able to do for others someday. (Maybe you have already done it.) Write down what you remember about that person's actions and your feelings about them.

One thing I would like to appreciate is that the teacher taught me math when I was in middle school. When I took the math class, I usually confused about why the function is made like that and how to solve this equation. Therefore, because of this suffering thing in my brain, my math test was low and sometimes lower than sixty.  I felt sorrowful and helpless, and then I couldn't find any helpful and kindhearted person to teach me math. However, my mom found a tutor on several days, and he came to my house to teach me every weekend. I thought that it would work. Not only he was good at math, but also he was really kind and willing to help me solve any difficulties about math. When I still didn't know this question, he would teach me nicely again and again, till I understood. After he's appearance, when I took the math test in the class, I got a high grade and lots of one hundred grades. I felt excited and grateful. I needed to thank that tutor who was serious and earnest on me, and I thought this is a great gift that I have never had before.

Quick Write - Hope is the thing with feathers

Think of an emotion or a state of mind. You might choose feelings like grief, joy, anger, dreaminess, selfishness or ambition. Then jot down three metaphors in which you identify your subject as something else.


Grief is a running river because if you see something like losing your family, getting a bad grade, you will feel sorrowful then cry continuously.

Joy is a blossomy condition. When you are happy, you will be glad to see your excited body, not like a withered flower.

Anger is a volcano because when you are angry, you will do something strongly and violently as volcano.

Dreaminess is a wonderland. You can see any special scenery, beautiful view, and interesting insects that what you haven’t seen before, it’s illusional.

Selfishness is a hermetic box. No one can get involved in that person, he/she doesn’t hear any suggestion, and then he/she thinks he/she is all right.

Ambition is future. When you really want to chase a goal that you wish, that means you are not far from the future because you are diligent and ambitious to get your wish, maybe you complete to get your goal in your future.

Quick Write

A long time ago, I was in Paris that near Eiffel Tower, Arc De Triomphe, and any beautiful place. there was comfortable, peaceful, and tranquil, it was an appropriate country to visit. Then the weather was not really hot and not really cold, it was a good time to go there, too. Sometimes I hoped that I wanted to live ther for a long time because of the good place and good weather. One thing I would like to talk about was Eiffel Tower because it was tall and steady. If you looked at it from far place, you can see a big traingle that stand on there. It was interesting and outstanding. If I was free next time, I would go to visit there again.

Let Your Backbone Slide Lyrics - video (rap)

P. 201 - Reader Response

After finishing seeing this page, I know that how to read a poem and what is imagery. If you read a story, listen a song, and watch a movie, you can think about how these images show the main senses. How the author, singer, and actor/actress share their own experience? It's important to the audience understand how they feel at that time.  After realizing the poem's rule, I know that a poem is differ from a story. The authors should know more details to create perfect own poem because if they don't follow the rule, the readers sometimes don't understand what you want to present. That's why this is very important.

Music - Heal The World by Michael Jackson

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After finishing listening this song, I feel peaceful and it is tuneful. I like this song because I can get the meaning from it and it shows that we have to make our world better. For example, if there is a poor country near us, we have to help them, and then give them some food and drink. That's why I think this song is touching and moving, I hope everyone can hear this song, and then let's heal the world.

Imagery

This song, "I Am A Rock", shows that the singer is along and everywhere is slient. After that, I think the singer wants to get excitement because he wants to be a rock and the surroundings are so quiet. However, if he is an island, he wants to build walls that can block friendship outside of there. then includes love that he doesn't want to happen.