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English, Hispanic, Italian, German, French,

African or Greek Lifestyles

Form groups of 3-5 members.  No more or no less!!!  Compile as much information as you can about ONE particular lifestyle or culture!!!  Use 1 of each resource to gather all of the information that you can possibly collect!!!! (magazine article, newspaper article, interview, website, and encyclopedias)

Contents of presentation

• Famous Literature

• Works of art

• Fashion/clothes

• Music

• Foods, beverages and treats

• Customs/Traditions/Holidays/Pastimes

• Religion

• Geography/topography

• Government

• Currency

• Popular Products

• Flag (Sketch/Draw/Picture)

**Requirements**

* Present Orally in front of the class

* Must be 3-5 pages typed

* Must have a Bibliography/works cited page (Where you got the information and credit given to the sources)

* Must have visual aides (overhead, pamphlets, posters boards, drawing, models, handouts)

You are to bring in and present:

• Food samples

• Music samples

• Pictures of clothes/fashion

• Maps

• Etc.

Read Robert Frost's "Mending Wall"

Mending Wall

Something there is that doesn't love a wall,
That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it,
And spills the upper boulders in the sun,
And makes gaps even two can pass abreast.
The work of hunters is another thing:
I have come after them and made repair
Where they have left not one stone on a stone,
But they would have the rabbit out of hiding,
To please the yelping dogs. The gaps I mean,
No one has seen them made or heard them made,
But at spring mending-time we find them there.
I let my neighbor know beyond the hill;
And on a day we meet to walk the line
And set the wall between us once again.
We keep the wall between us as we go.
To each the boulders that have fallen to each.
And some are loaves and some so nearly balls
We have to use a spell to make them balance:
'Stay where you are until our backs are turned!'
We wear our fingers rough with handling them.
Oh, just another kind of out-door game,
One on a side. It comes to little more:
There where it is we do not need the wall:
He is all pine and I am apple orchard.
My apple trees will never get across
And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him.
He only says, 'Good fences make good neighbors'.
Spring is the mischief in me, and I wonder
If I could put a notion in his head:
'Why do they make good neighbors? Isn't it
Where there are cows?
But here there are no cows.
Before I built a wall I'd ask to know
What I was walling in or walling out,
And to whom I was like to give offence.
Something there is that doesn't love a wall,
That wants it down.' I could say 'Elves' to him,
But it's not elves exactly, and I'd rather
He said it for himself. I see him there
Bringing a stone grasped firmly by the top
In each hand, like an old-stone savage armed.
He moves in darkness as it seems to me~
Not of woods only and the shade of trees.
He will not go behind his father's saying,
And he likes having thought of it so well
He says again, "Good fences make good neighbors."

Analyze the poem and write a 1 paragraph interpretation.  Then respond to "Making Meanings" on page 529; 1-6.......please restate the question within your answers.

Read Langston Hughes' "Mother to Son"

* Create a "T" Graph........Think of some hardships in life and compare them to something (metaphor)

* Complete "Step" Graphic Organizer

* Create an original 20 line poem dealing with "Hardships"

Read William Shakespeare's "Shall I Comare Thee to a Sumer's Day"

William Shakespeare - Sonnet #18

Shall I compare thee to a Summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And Summer's lease hath all too short a date: Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And oft' is his gold complexion dimm'd; And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd: But thy eternal Summer shall not fade Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest; Nor shall Death brag thou wanderest in his shade, 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.

* After Reading:

   -Interpret Each Line

   -Determine Rhyme Sheme

   -Questions on pg. 562; 1-10

Comparison and Contrast Essay

I. Attention Getter

   a. What does it mean to survive?

   b. Statistic about the court system, fact about the jury selection process

   c. What is the purpose of writing this paper?  What will you prove in this paper? (thesis statement)

II. Similarities

   a.

   b.

   c.

   d.

   e.

III. Differences

   a.

   b.

   c.

   d.

   e.

IV. Things that you like about the story/movie and what they should have included in the story/movie

   a.

   b.

   c.

   d.

   e.

V.  What they should have included in the story/movie

   a. 

   b.

   c.

   d.

   e.

VI. Conclusion

a.       What you learned from the selections

b.      Why is the jury room discussion so important?

c.       What will happen if we don’t take the right steps in life?

d.      Quote