Tali's First Blog

 

    Agenda

Take a minute 

Creatober Day 1

Blog corrections

Week 8: Lines 

Reader's Workshop

    Homework

Reading Journal 8.2 The Outsiders Ch. 7

   Beginning of Class

    As everyone sat down for the beginning of class, Ms Nakada began the Take a Minute video and the class  began writing the agenda down. Afterwards, everyone got a paper to begin their first Creatober sketch. Then, Ms Nakada began talking about Creatober and showing us examples of what she is doing for Creatober this year. Next, the class gathered their supplies and began making their own Creatober projects. After about five minutes, the class wrapped up and some came up to share.

Nothing Gold Can Stay

    For our week eight lines, we analyzed the poem Nothing Gold Can Stay, which was also in The Outsiders. 

            "Nature's first green is gold,

            Her hardest hue to hold.

            Her early leaf's a flower;

            But only so an hour.

            Then leaf subsides to leaf.

            So Eden sank to grief,

            So dawn goes down to day.

            Nothing gold can stay."

 

Ms. Nakada explained that the last line of the poem is shorter, and since the lines are all 6 syllables, it creates a rhythm.

We found some alliterations in each line of the poem and Truman observes that this poem is about the change of nature. Marcel notes that this poem is saying that nothing good can stay. Ms Nakada explains that it also talks about youth, which will always eventually fade. The poem also has allusions to the Garden of Eden and about how Eve is cast out of the garden.

    End of Class

The bell rings, cutting is short of our annotations, and Ms Nakada dismisses the class.