Wednesday

 Today we will continue to read "Blues Ain't No Mockin' Bird". When we are finish we will fill out the Short Story Outline and work on the journal entry questions.

First we will review vocabulary for the upcoming quiz.

You will be required to compare Granddaddy Cain and Pa Sexton in an essay soon.

 

FOR JOURNALS:

1) What are some descriptions of Granddaddy Cain?  (List all you can find.  You'll need to compare him to Pa Sexton).

2) What are some descriptions of Camera and Smilin' (is there anything ironic about their names?)

3) List all the allusions you can find.

4) List descriptions of the setting?

5) List examples of dialect.

Definition of Blues:

noun

1.

melancholic music of black American folk origin, typically in a twelve-bar sequence. It developed in the rural southern US toward the end of the 19th century, finding a wider audience in the 1940s as blacks migrated to the cities. This urban blues gave rise to rhythm and blues and rock and roll.