During our Revolutionary Literature unit, we focused on the ideals of a post-Revolution America and how those ideals have evolved over the course of our country's history. We examined documents from the Revolution, including the Declaration of Independence and Crèvecoeur's Letters from an American Farmer, and then we also compared and contrasted "My Shot" from Hamilton and the "My Shot (Remix)" from The Hamilton Mixtape. After Revolutionary Literature, we jumped right in to Romanticism for our first short stories! We also examined a few satirical works, which led up to our final project for the semester. In the style of SNL or The Daily Show, students are creating their own satires about an issue they see in our society today. Looking forward to see what they come up with! I'm also very behind on posting caption contests, so here they are from the past five (oops) weeks. P1 "Postmates?" - Kendrick A. "Spare syrup? Spare syrup, ma’am?" - Gisselle G. P2 “When you see samples at Costco.” - Danny A. "When you’re at Costco and someone offers you your 26th sample." - Allison B. "If nobody sees you eating then the calories don’t exist." - Maddie H. P3 "Psst, our pancakes are so good, they’re illegal. Buy them while you can." - Jonny F. "Temptation Alley" - Josh S. P4 "Man: Finally alone at last sweet cakes. Woman: Excuse me? Man: What? I wasn’t talking to you." - Hannah R. P1 "You guys ready? This next one is going to knock you off your feet." - Nick B. "Float like a butterfly. Play like Beethoven." - Jake E. "Mayweather tonight at the MGM Grand Piano." - Johannes O. P2 "And for my next piece... left uppercut in G major." - Charlie C. "This concert is going to be a real “knockout.”" - Maddie H. "If I hit the keys hard enough, they’ll B flat." - Arend V. P3 "Creed 3: The Musical" - Thomas C. "I’m about to hit you with this E minor." - Christian G. "This is not the kind of beat I wanted." - Jade J. P4 “Yo Adrian! I can play the piano!” - Aleks N. "Ladies and gentlemen...Rocky vs. his own theme songgggggggg!" - Hannah R. P1 “Yo this MTV Cribs come on in.” - Kendrick A. "You’ve heard of mini golf, now get ready for MEGA golf." - Stephen K. "This next property will blow you away!" - Jake L. "It has an amazing AC unit." - David M. P2 "You know, hole 11 is an up-and-coming neighborhood." - Charlie C. "Nice catching up. Wind mill I see you again???" - Kylie K. "Sorry I can’t hear you over this clean energy." Robby P. P3 "Honey, this is not what I meant when I said I wanted to be right on the golf course..." - Colette H. P4 "It’s a bit mini but well take it." - Justin D. “Yes, we’re looking for a home that will blow us away!” Elshaday G. P1 "I think one of us is at the wrong ski resort." - Luis B. Water skier: Hey! This is my turf! Other skier: this was my turf. - Jake E. P2 "Would you by any chance know how to get inland?" - Charlie C. "This might be a bad time..... but..... Can I get your number?" - Chase W. P3 "When you support bae and everything she does." - Colin D. "Global warming really ruined my trip." - Ivy N. P4 “When it’s winter break and it doesn’t snow in Cali.” - Dominic R. P1
"When Donald Trump sees the Constitution." - Emily N. P2 "Hillary Clinton with her emails." - Allison B. "Trump getting rid of his tax returns." - Sebastian M. P3 "And for my next act of office tasks I will staple some documents!" - Kai H. P4 "Where our tax dollars go." - Gavin H.
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