Block Day 3/17-18 ~ Bring me a higher love oh oh!

MEMORIZATION

(Quiz on Tuesday 3/22)

"If" by Rudyard Kipling
If you can keep your head when all about you
  Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
  But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
  Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
  And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:

POETRY

• Finish posters and take notes.
• New Terms:
• Tone: The attitude the writer or speaker takes toward the subject, audience, or herself.  You will look more directly at the syntax to find this.
• Mood: The total feeling or atmosphere communicated by a scene, selection, or complete work of art.  Ask, how does this make me feel?
• Syntax: The way a writer chooses to order the words in a sentence for effect. For example, why does Yoda always switch around his sentences? Ex/"Go, you will!" Is it for a more dramatic effect? Is it a more direct way of speaking? Is he trying to bring up the idea before expounding on it? Syntax can have an effect on the meaning of the words. 

• Consider "Higher Love"

• First view an old classic here.
• Now for a modern spin here. 
• Journal 19: Higher Love
• A: What is the tone of the words themselves before you listen to the song? How can you use syntax to figure out the meaning? See lyrics below:
• B: How does the music convey a totally different atmosphere in the old vs. the new version? How would you describe the atmosphere of each? 
• C: After looking at the lyrics, which recording to you see as most fitting for the meaning of the song? 

• 

  Steve Winwood (older artist)

  

  James Vincent McMorrow (cover artist)

  Think about it, there must be higher love
  Down in the heart or hidden in the stars above
  Without it, life is a wasted time
  Look inside your heart, I'll look inside mine
  Things look so bad everywhere
  In this whole world, what is fair?
  We walk blind and we try to see
  Falling behind in what could be
  Bring me a higher love
  Bring me a higher love
  Bring me a higher love
  Where's that higher love I keep thinking of?
  Worlds are turning and we're just hanging on
  Facing our fear and standing out there alone
  A yearning, and it's real to me
  There must be someone who's feeling for me
  Things look so bad everywhere
  In this whole world, what is fair?
  We walk blind and we try to see
  Falling behind in what could be
  Bring me a higher love
  Bring me a higher love
  Bring me… Full lyrics on Google Play

HW: Please finish J19 and upload your novel choice and author to the correct tab on this document.

• What am I going to have to do with my novel? Look at the assignment here. 
• Here is the reading list.