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English 8
CommonLit
Choose the Michael Jordan story or The Four Dragons. You don't have to do both.
The assignment is in your Google classroom.
Encounters 6
CommonLit
Choose the Michael Jordan story or The Four Dragons. You don't have to do both.
The assignment is in your Google classroom.
Encounters 7
Essay Continued
Last week, you wrote the introduction to your essay.
This week, revise your introduction and then add two to three body paragraphs that support and elaborate on/ explain your thesis.
If you don't remember how to write a body paragraph, study this:
How to Write the Expository Paragraph (TEEC):
- T: Topic Sentence (thesis) - Clearly state your point in the topic sentence.
- E: Examples and Facts - Support your opinion with facts and examples (research).
- E: Explain your fact or examples.
- C: Concluding Sentence - Summarize in a memorable way.
The assignment itself is in your Google classroom.
Encounters 8
Adding Audio
Here's a poem (read by Andy Garcia) written by the great Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, "one of the most influential and widely read 20th-century poets of the Americas."
"Tonight, I Can Write (the saddest lines)" by Pablo Neruda
Write, for example, 'The night is shattered
and the blue stars shiver in the distance.'
The night wind revolves in the sky and sings.
Tonight I can write the saddest lines.
I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.
Through nights like this one I held her in my arms
I kissed her again and again under the endless sky.
She loved me and sometimes I loved her too.
How could one not have loved her great still eyes.
Tonight I can write the saddest lines.
To think that I do not have her. To feel that I have lost her.
To hear the immense night, still more immense without her.
And the verse falls to the soul like dew to the pasture.
What does it matter that my love could not keep her.
The night is shattered and she is not with me.
This is all. In the distance someone is singing. In the distance.
My soul is not satisfied that it has lost her.
My sight searches for her as though to go to her.
My heart looks for her, and she is not with me.
The same night whitening the same trees.
We, of that time, are no longer the same.
I no longer love her, that's certain, but how I loved her.
My voice tried to find the wind to touch her hearing.
Another's. She will be another's. Like my kisses before.
Her voice. Her bright body. Her infinite eyes.
I no longer love her, that's certain, but maybe I love her.
Love is so short, forgetting is so long.
Because through nights like this one I held her in my arms
my soul is not satisfied that it has lost her.
Though this be the last pain that she makes me suffer
and these the last verses that I write for her.
Source: https://www.familyfriendpoems.com/poem/tonight-i-can-write-the-saddest-lines-by-pablo-neruda
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