Maya Angelou- Caged bird

Group members: 

Focus: Central Idea and Tone  Critical Questions for Understanding Poet’s Purpose -Caged Bird by Maya Angelou - poem

LI: identify and critique the author’s intention for writing; identify symbols and inferences in writing; 

SC: identify tone; diction; poetic devices; describe impact or intended effect. 

1. Identify the speaker of the poem. 

Malachi:Someone who speaks of freedom.

Hone :A person who is trying to break free 

2. What is the speaker’s tone? 

Malachi:Mostly negative with some positive

3. What vocabulary is used (diction), which reveals the speaker’s tone? 

Pita: seldom, bars of rage, grave of dreams, fearful trill.

4. What is the connotation, implied or true meaning of each word ? 

5. What stanzas are repeated? 

Malachi: the 3rd and 6th paragraph

6. Why are they repeated? 

Pita: they are repeated to see how the bird feels when he’s being locked up and free to go.

7. Identify FOUR symbols from the poem which are used to stand for bigger ideas than their literal meaning? 

Malachi: Grave of dreams: means that your dreams are dead and there is no hope for you.

Malachi: The caged bird sings with a fearful trill of things unknown but longed for still:means that he doesn’t know what it is but he still wants it.    

8. What is the central idea of a poem? 

Pita: The story was about a bird that is trapped in a cage and also a free bird. 

I also think that this was a story about the man who assaulted Maya Angelo. I think that she wrote the poem caged bird because of that man who attacked her.

9. State central idea in one sentence. 

Hone: The central idea of this poem highlights the differences of being free and being trapped by the circumstances of one’s situation  

Last question: Based on what we know about Angelou’s life, what are the possible connections between Angelou’s life and her poem “Caged Bird”? 

Pita: Maya Angelou wrote this caged bird because she got assaulted when she was 8 years old and the man who assaulted her was found and sentenced by the judge. 

Malachi:That Maya Angelou is the caged bird and that man that was pita talking about he only got one day of jail for some reason but he got killed or murder after he was released from jail.When he got killed Maya went mute.

Hone:

Malachi: I wished that the caged bird would be free.

What if... I were a teacher for the day

if I was a teacher for the day I would make my students to be respectful to their parents and to the other teachers. I would also give them homework on the second week of the term, I would also teach them heaps and if they are good then I would take them out for P.E,  and if I was a teacher I would make them go to the office if they swear fight or even if they disrespect me or the teachers.

My Mum's Hands

This week's writing task was a free-verse poem about "my Mum´s Hands".  We 

practised using semi-colons, a range of sentence lengths and using better Vocabulary. Our poems are based on an original poem written by Gary O'Connell. I chose to write about my Mum because she is someone special to me.

 My Mum's Hands

are soft baby hands;

her back, Steady wall;

her legs, Fast twigs.

Her laugh is soft and pale;

her breath, dust like the wind.

Slepping

quietly and steady in my arms,

my mum

is the kindest person in the world. 

the moment I heard songs

 I was at home listening to music on my bed. The music was coming from my earphones. Suddenly it made me go to sleep. I woke up at 3pm and the music was still playing. I like it when that happens. 

About me 2021

Kia Ora. My name is Hone. I am a year 8 at Ruapotaka school and My teacher is Mr Nevalagi.I am Maori and in my family i have 2 step sisters and 1 step brother and I also have 1 older brother 1 baby brother 2 other sisters and a baby on the way.

I enjoy playing on the ps4 with my oldest brother like play combat games and Nba2k21 current gen. My favourite foods are butter chicken and more. I like playing sports and my favourite hobbies are going to the movies and going to the pools.

Americas World Cup

 

Cybersmart Challenge

 Today for our task with Mr Goodwin we had to do this bookmark activity with him and then we had to load it on blogger and put our things on our folder.