The following are topics for your next writing assignment using 50 words from the vocabulary list 5-10:
U.S. Troops still in Iraq
Becoming a U.S. citizen
Anything Math B related: How to find Congruent sides and angles
Immigration in U.S.
HIV/Aids
Or you can select your own societal or global
Sunday, September 30, 2007
Saturday, September 22, 2007
Hip-Hop Lyrics
Not Interested by Gracie feat. ChaChi & Lil’ J-Dizzle
Lyrics By: Chasity Perez, Amanda Zambrana & Joseph Zambrano
[ChaChi]
Beautiful Gracie wore skinny blue jeans
By ever boy, she was so laudable.
J-Dizzle asked her on a date.
But she was unavailable.
"I have a boyfriend", she said.
“And his name is Ted.”
Don’t even try it
I’m on it
I know guys like you
don’t hang wit chicks like me
[Gracie]
O Gluttonous Boy, Please Leave Me Alone
You Best Move To The Capital Of Sierra Leone
Ted gives me longevity
You’re best off working your magic in Panama City
And Dont Go Fabricating Stories About Me
I'll Have you wishing You Took Your Vitamin C's
[Lil’ J-Dizzle]
Gracie I'll Have You Feeling Hypnotic
Don’t Make Me Feel Idiotic.
You'll Be The Culpable One If My Heart Breaks
I'll buy you All Kind Of flavored Milk Shakes.
Come over honey and let's intermingle
You Have Me Here Writing this silly little jingle
Chorus: J-Dizzle
Gracie, you got me Manifestin’
And I’m writin’ candid letters
Because of this my homies lecture
Gracie,
I want her to be my wifey.
These are the words of my lifey
[Gracie]
I Wont capitulate to you
So Get a Clue
It'll be Beneficial if we don’t talk no mo
There’s a wide gamut of girls you know
Infuriate them
I don’t care who
What, why or when
Just do it!
Chorus: Gracie
I don’t want you Dizzle
I don’t need you Dizzle
I’m not tryna be malevolent
I really wanna act benevolent
But you need to bounce
Get outta my face and just Fizzle
[Lil’ J-Dizzle]
Baby girl just hear me out
Please don’t shut me out
These girls around here are like a facsimile
Of many chicks I seen quite possibly
You could be the one
My love is like the sun
I could definitely be ya boo
Don’t think I’m tryna sound pretentious to you
I need you ma
I really need you ma
[Gracie]
Okay, I get it Lil’ J
You like me a lot
What do you want me to do?
You’re not very hot
Sike! I’m just kidding
You’re cute.
I already know this
If I turn you down
I’ll feel ignominious
So, I guess I’ll give us a try
Leave Teddy for you
And if it doesn’t work out
Well then it doesn’t work out
And that’s that
[ChaChi]
lil Gracey yearning Dizzle
walked up to Ted to break up
debased, belittled was feeling Ted
effased heart and very miserable
A while passed
Gracey and Dizzle was goin benign
Sentiments for Ted was all gone
guessing lectures from homeboy
was a good time
[J- Dizzle]
Vital for Gracey's poignant
cuz now she's wifey for lifey
n my tru bo0
[ChaChi]
SUPERMAN THAT HOE!
Lyrics By: Chasity Perez, Amanda Zambrana & Joseph Zambrano
[ChaChi]
Beautiful Gracie wore skinny blue jeans
By ever boy, she was so laudable.
J-Dizzle asked her on a date.
But she was unavailable.
"I have a boyfriend", she said.
“And his name is Ted.”
Don’t even try it
I’m on it
I know guys like you
don’t hang wit chicks like me
[Gracie]
O Gluttonous Boy, Please Leave Me Alone
You Best Move To The Capital Of Sierra Leone
Ted gives me longevity
You’re best off working your magic in Panama City
And Dont Go Fabricating Stories About Me
I'll Have you wishing You Took Your Vitamin C's
[Lil’ J-Dizzle]
Gracie I'll Have You Feeling Hypnotic
Don’t Make Me Feel Idiotic.
You'll Be The Culpable One If My Heart Breaks
I'll buy you All Kind Of flavored Milk Shakes.
Come over honey and let's intermingle
You Have Me Here Writing this silly little jingle
Chorus: J-Dizzle
Gracie, you got me Manifestin’
And I’m writin’ candid letters
Because of this my homies lecture
Gracie,
I want her to be my wifey.
These are the words of my lifey
[Gracie]
I Wont capitulate to you
So Get a Clue
It'll be Beneficial if we don’t talk no mo
There’s a wide gamut of girls you know
Infuriate them
I don’t care who
What, why or when
Just do it!
Chorus: Gracie
I don’t want you Dizzle
I don’t need you Dizzle
I’m not tryna be malevolent
I really wanna act benevolent
But you need to bounce
Get outta my face and just Fizzle
[Lil’ J-Dizzle]
Baby girl just hear me out
Please don’t shut me out
These girls around here are like a facsimile
Of many chicks I seen quite possibly
You could be the one
My love is like the sun
I could definitely be ya boo
Don’t think I’m tryna sound pretentious to you
I need you ma
I really need you ma
[Gracie]
Okay, I get it Lil’ J
You like me a lot
What do you want me to do?
You’re not very hot
Sike! I’m just kidding
You’re cute.
I already know this
If I turn you down
I’ll feel ignominious
So, I guess I’ll give us a try
Leave Teddy for you
And if it doesn’t work out
Well then it doesn’t work out
And that’s that
[ChaChi]
lil Gracey yearning Dizzle
walked up to Ted to break up
debased, belittled was feeling Ted
effased heart and very miserable
A while passed
Gracey and Dizzle was goin benign
Sentiments for Ted was all gone
guessing lectures from homeboy
was a good time
[J- Dizzle]
Vital for Gracey's poignant
cuz now she's wifey for lifey
n my tru bo0
[ChaChi]
SUPERMAN THAT HOE!
Commentary Query Essay
Opinion Essay: Which of the sonnets do you think expresses the strongest commitment to a lover relationship” Write a 3 paragraph essay explaining your opinion with supporting from the Sonnets.
Shakespeare ’s most important topic was always love and when reading his sonnets love is the one topic that always shows. Now love has its ups and downs and Shakespeare was not in denial of that, therefore writes about the good and bad parts of love. "Sonnet 18" expresses the strongest commitment to a lover relationship because of the way he writes about his other half. He doesn’t use silly teenage words to tell this person he loves her, rather he uses enriching lines that would make one imagine that the person who this was composed for would melt. From the beginning of the poem, he starts off by comparing her to a summer’s day which sets the mood of this sonnet, giving you happy thoughts of the part of the year you most look forward to. “You are more lovely and more temperate” (Sonnet 18, Line 2). This second line of the sonnet keeps complimenting her and giving her more reason to be on cloud nine.
As the sonnet progresses, the speaker goes into realization and starts speaking of how good things come to an end (the good thing being her beauty).
“And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade”
(18: Lines 7 8 9).
By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade”
(18: Lines 7 8 9).
However he quickly goes into how her youth and beauty will always be eternal to him and whatever she loses with age he will always look at her the same way he has always looked at her. The speaker writes that nature won't take her beauty away. Once you accept that there will be change within a person and you accept it rather than try to change it, a strong commitment within the two people is formed.
Not only does the speaker promise his lady’s beauty to remain unchanged within him, but he now promises her it will be immortal.
Not only does the speaker promise his lady’s beauty to remain unchanged within him, but he now promises her it will be immortal.
“When in eternal lines to time thou growest:
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this and this gives life to thee”
(18: 12. 13.14).
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this and this gives life to thee”
(18: 12. 13.14).
Here he tells her that with his few words, he will immortalize her beauty and everyone shall know about her. Now every person desires youth and beauty for eternity, however that cannot be accomplished, so the speaker does the next best thing: Immortalizes her in a sonnet. He not only declares his love for her but gives her what every woman wants, eternal youth and beauty. This is by far the strongest commitment to a lover because of the promises it holds and the happiness it brings to the other person.
Character Sketch
Character Sketch: take any of the sonnets and get an image from (online, magazine, personal pictures etc. please cite your sources i.e. url, name of magazine etc.) that you think represents one of a character in one of the poems and write a paragraph on why this image captures the character in your selected poem.
Megan Fox is not the woman Shakespeare describes in "Sonnet 130" but the woman he compares her to. Throughout the sonnet he judges his mistress and picks out on all her flaws and compares her to what is perfect during that era. In today’s world, Megan Fox is the poster girl for perfection. She has charm, talent, the looks, the body, and everything else a woman would want to be. If Shakespeare’s sonnet was written today, his mistress would be compared to the likes of Megan Fox. Her image is everything Shakespeare describes: red lips, snow white skin, etc... However, at the end of the sonnet he realizes he doesn’t need her to be perfect in order to love her. And as many women daydream about being like Megan Fox, they must settle with the way they are, just like Shakespeare did.
Megan Fox is not the woman Shakespeare describes in "Sonnet 130" but the woman he compares her to. Throughout the sonnet he judges his mistress and picks out on all her flaws and compares her to what is perfect during that era. In today’s world, Megan Fox is the poster girl for perfection. She has charm, talent, the looks, the body, and everything else a woman would want to be. If Shakespeare’s sonnet was written today, his mistress would be compared to the likes of Megan Fox. Her image is everything Shakespeare describes: red lips, snow white skin, etc... However, at the end of the sonnet he realizes he doesn’t need her to be perfect in order to love her. And as many women daydream about being like Megan Fox, they must settle with the way they are, just like Shakespeare did.
Thursday, September 20, 2007
Sonnet
Your homework assignment over the weekend is to write your own sonnet: 14 Lines, 3 four lines stanzas, iambic pentameter 10 syllables per line, correct rhyme scheme (abab…), must have a title, and finally it must be in today’s language/lingo.
O' Britney Where Art Thou
O' Britney Spears how you keep on declining [A]
Bedazzled bras don't go with two time moms [B]
Look for a job in Utah Newscasting [A]
Or put your sad life on silly sitcoms[B]
Your art of lyp synching was beyond time [C]
Grammys no longer in your horizon [D]
Instead your job selling Indian lime[C]
Will outsell your records on Amazon[D]
As Christina rolls around in money [E]
And as Rihanna makes us go -ella[F]
Keep thinking about the Easter bunny[E]
And how you were once Cinderella[F]
And so as you head to your next hat shop [G]
I say farewell to the Ex- Queen of Pop [G]
O' Britney Where Art Thou
O' Britney Spears how you keep on declining [A]
Bedazzled bras don't go with two time moms [B]
Look for a job in Utah Newscasting [A]
Or put your sad life on silly sitcoms[B]
Your art of lyp synching was beyond time [C]
Grammys no longer in your horizon [D]
Instead your job selling Indian lime[C]
Will outsell your records on Amazon[D]
As Christina rolls around in money [E]
And as Rihanna makes us go -ella[F]
Keep thinking about the Easter bunny[E]
And how you were once Cinderella[F]
And so as you head to your next hat shop [G]
I say farewell to the Ex- Queen of Pop [G]
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