The Rose that Grew from Concrete - Tupac Shakur

The Rose that Grew from Concrete

---  Tupac Shakur ---

Did you hear about the rose that grew

from a crack in the concrete?

Proving nature's law is wrong it

learned to walk with out having feet.

Funny it seems, but by keeping its dreams,

it learned to breathe fresh air.

Long live the rose that grew from concrete

when no one else ever cared.

• 1. What is concrete? Explain, using imagery, what it looks, feels, smells, tastes and sounds like. 

-        -  Concrete is something people use to build house and it needs to be strong enough to make the house solid. It doesn’t look nice and it actually looks disgusting. People walk on it, spit on it. It represents something bad or problems.

• 2. What is a rose? Using imagery to explain it. 

-       -   A rose is a pretty and pleasant flower. It represents something nice, beauty, or something that overcome the problems.

• 3. What is the tone of this poem?

-        -  The tone of this poem is strong but soft at the same time. It probably cheers people up. It sounds great and happy.

• 4. What is the message of the poem?

-         - The message is to believe in ourselves. We can do anything if we try and we can make something out of nothing. We can change, from bad to good.

• 5. What figurative language does the poet use?

-          - The poet uses imagination to compare concrete as a bad person; and rose is that person after some changes, that person becomes a better person. 

Homework (Changes-Tupac)

1) What's the tone of the song?
- Aggressive and angry. He tried to tell people to not fight over each other and also don't be racist toward black-Americans.

2) What imagery does Tupac use?
- He used the experience of his life to describe the world around him. He saw his friend died in the game and that really sad. He was forced to do something that he didn't want to. And he prefer a better life.

3) What figurative language does he use?
- He used rhymes, alliteration, onomatopocia, repetion.

4) Text to Self.
- Tupac sent the messages through the song and

5) Text to Text.
- This song has the same content and meaning as the speech of MLK - I have a dream. They both tell us about being racist toward each other is not the right thing to do.

6) Text to World.
- In this world, lots of people still live in poor and they have to do dirty jobs like: stealing and selling drugs because that's the only thing they can do to survive. Tupac has describe the situation very well. The world has to change.

My Favorite Song "Safe & Sound"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5K4PGpXsOAI

Novel Reflection for "Out of my mind"

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             Melody is not like the other people. She cannot do easy thing like normal human can like: talk, walk, but the special thing she has – a miracle: photographic memory. She can remember anything very details. She is so smart, even smarter than the fortune kids who can talk and walk. She went to a normal school and she joins a group of smart kids to compete with other schools and she can show them that not because she has a mental problem doesn’t mean she isn’t intelligence. But when they got to the final round, Melody was left behind because everyone else went eat breakfast together and they got to the airport earlier; the flight was delayed and the group just got into the plane in time. Melody was left… L After that, the team didn’t win. Everything got to the most normal it can be in school – silence. 

Novel Reflection for "Gregor and the curse of the Warmbloods" ♥

Gregor was told to go to the Underworld to complete the "Prophecy of Blood". But his mom didn't let him go alone with his sister so she follows them, if not she won't let them go. At first, she thought it was only a meeting and it's only for a day, but actually... It's not normal like a meeting, her son - Gregor has to risk himself to save all the animals and people life because of the warmblood disease. It killed so many people and now he had to go and find the medicine which is starshades. But when they finally got there - the sVineyard of Eyes, but ants destroy all the starshades and leaving no hope of cure. Later on, Gregor thought about it again and again, he figured out that he can get the medicine from the laboratory, All the problems has been solve... but his mom got the disease so she has to stay down there and take treatments. :D

When my name was Keoko!! ♥

Did i enjoy it? Why or why not?

Oh yeah... I did enjoy it A LOT! I like how the story was set up with a war and all those things about Japanese and Korean. The author is pretty well on choosing Tae-yul and Sun-hee as the main characters and write about their thoughts. I still wonder where is Uncle and how's going on in the North? Would he back after the war end? But anyways, I love the way the author end the story with an open ending, because it makes us more curious and also we could imagine the ending on our own too. The descriptions were fascinating, the characters appealed me into their world full of adventures and secrets life under the Japanese occupation.

I really like this book, I had so much fun reading this ^^ <3

Visualization!! ♥

                                       When My Name was Keoko - chapter 28 - 30... I guess xD

     While I listened along, I imagined bombs and planes and people got shoot in the head; how Tae-yul would appreciate to fly on an airplane. I also visualized how Omoni screams when she heard that Tae-yul has died. Keoko was very sad at that time and seeing her mother depress was so hard to her to even think about neighbor accounting. But when she heard that Japan was freed, I can see her face was light up a little bit and a gentle smile appeared on her face. ^^ ==> like this =D. [ muahahah finally!!! ]. It was interesting to imagine all the scenes in our mind while reading. I enjoyed it a lot :P.