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Did you know that George Orwell was actually born Eric Author Blair? George Orwell is his pseudonym. Born in Bengal India in 1903, he did not have much of a relationship with his father due to his mother moving him to England in his first year of life. Orwell's father stayed behind in India and rarely visited Orwell and his mother in England. Although a sickly child who often suffered from the flu and bronchitis, he was a very talented writer at an early age. He was four when he composed his first poem. He enjoyed reading such authors are Rudyard Kipling and H.G. Wells. He attended boarding school in England and "won scholarships to Wellington College and Eton College to continue his studies" (Bio). Biography describes Orwell's Animal Farm as "an anti-Soviet satire in a pastoral setting featuring two pigs as its main protagonists" (Bio). Animal Farm (1945) was Orwell's first major hit and was followed in 1949 by 1984. His later book is also a political text Works Cited "George Orwell." Bio. A&E Television Networks, 2015. Web. 27 June 2015.
http://www.teachertube.com/video/what-if-shakespeare-1527
S: This video looks at Shakespeare's Sonnet 71 and gives a line by line rephrase/translation of how the poem would read if it were to be written by Shakespeare today using today's vernacular. O: I think the author of this video did a wonderful job of modernizing this text. The brilliance and rather accurate translation begins immediately in line one of the poem. The original line reads, "No longer mourn for me when I am dead). The translation is stated, "Don't trip when I'm gone." Q: Being that modern vernacular changes quite frequently and spreads like wildfire with the use of technology and the internet, I wonder when this was created and how it can be updated even further. http://www.teachertube.com/video/poetry-types-117602 S: This video is an informative text about several poetry forms. It gives the title of a form followed by the specifics of the form and several examples. Some of the forms discussed was the acrostic, haiku, cinquain, and diamonte. O: The slideshow was very thorough in the poetic forms that it chose to discuss. I especially thought it was helpful that they showed examples as not everyone can learn and model a poetic style just from hearing the styles poetic requirements. I did, however, find it hard to read the directions for the acrostic and the diamonte because the font was not big enough, or perhaps they could not enlarge it enough to fit the quantity of text on the page. Additionally, two of the examples for the diamente were too small to read, so those examples did not help me to further understand the poems structure. Q: Knowing that there are far more poetic styles than can fit in a two minute slide show, I wonder what made this author choose these poetic styles in particular. Additionally, I think I would like to put together a tutorial video on some of my most favorite poetic styles and perhaps model how I shape and edit a poem. In an article from Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, “Retailers Adapting to Their Teen Shoppers’ Habits,” the main idea is stated as “Now they are trying to make over how and where they sell clothes.” A statement within the article with which I agree is, “’Experience’ is likely to be a popular word going forward.” I do not agree with the definition of the term ‘”omni-channel’” because I do not think that it will bring a seamless “combining [of] online and offline stores.” I find it interesting that “94 percent of sales” in our country are completed in retail locations. After reading the article, I have a question. In response to the article stating that retailers “are taking the problem seriously,” I wonder what the “problem” is since retailers report that sales are up. Click here to view article. Work Cited Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. NewsELA. 2014. Web. 21 August 2014. Below is the MANIC format PREZI. |