Strange Fruit By Billie Holiday

Strange Fruit Billie Holiday

Being Compared to a fruit ↓

Southern trees bear strange fruit,
Blood of Slaves↓
Blood on the leaves and blood at the root,
Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze,
Blacks who were hung↑
Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees.

A young man of Fashion ↓
Pastoral scene of the gallant south,
The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth,
How the Slaves looked like when they were hung ↑
Scent of magnolias, sweet and fresh,
Then the sudden smell of burning flesh.

Here is fruit for the crows to pluck,
Crow Eating the Leftovers ↑
For the rain to gather, for the wind to suck,
For the sun to rot, for the trees to drop,
Here is a strange and bitter crop.


Purple= Rhyming
Lavender=Annotation
Red= What is Being Annotated

This Picture Relates to our topic Slavery because it showing that slavery should be abolished in africa.
Partners: Steffy Zambrano & Jackson Quach
Links/Sources : Slavery Picture

Classwork; March 26

Do Now: Read an excerpt from Chief Joseph’s speech. Interpret the following quotes:
“The Earth is the mother of all people and all people should have equal rights upon it."
(Chief Joseph).

How is the art of rhetoric evident in Chief Joseph’s speech?
The art of Rhetoric is evident in Chief Joseph's Speech because he talks about how his people were in the land first and how every man should be created equal.
Who is he addressing in this speech?
He is addressing it to the government because they aren't paying attention to what his saying about how they want to take his land.
Who is he indicting and why? Identify any heroic characteristics?
The Heroic Characterisic in this speech is that they didn't give up there land for fur skins, or anything that what given to them.
Why is this speech Protest Literature?

March 12 - 13; ClassWork

Do Now: How can you connect man and nature from your researched folklores? Share with class.
Native Americans can be connected to man and nature because they depended on nature to live. And also they got their names from animals.

Recall: from your Global studies class what is imperialism. Now recall the documentary we viewed last week together with your notes and identify any system of imperialism as it pertains to Native Americans.
Silent reading from Excerpt from Trafzar’s “Cheyenne’s Revenge” and make annotations in your books. Identify characters, point of view, conflicts, setting, and historical references.

Point Of View: 3rd Person
Setting: Sand Creek in Colorado
Characters: Lone Wolf, Tall Bear, Chief Black Kettle

March 10 - 11 ; Classwork

Day II:
Cooperative Learning: group students who have similar folktales.
Students will use a Venn Diagram to compare their folktales with their peers, and use Sense Chart for their own folktales.

Sense Imagery

March 7; Classwork

Do Now: What is a myth? Do you know of any?
What is a Folklore? Can you recall a Folklore?

A myth is a sacred story concerning the origins of the world or how the world and the creatures in it came to be in their present form. The active beings in myths are generally gods and heroes.

A Folklore is Folklore is the body of expressive culture, including tales, music, dance, legends, oral history, proverbs, jokes, popular beliefs, customs, and so forth within a particular population comprising the traditions (including oral traditions) of that culture, subculture, or group.

What do you think is creation mythology?
Creation Myth- story or explanation that describes the beginnings of humanity, earth, life, and the universe usually as a deliberate act of "creation" by a supreme being.


Sources : Myth ;; Folklore ;; Creation Myth

March 6;ClassWork

Do Now: Watch a 22mins film on the history of Native Americans.
Students will take notes while watching the documentary on Native Americans.

What is an oral tradition in your family or amongst your friends?

An Oral Tradition in my family is that ever Christmas Eve during dinner my grandmother and uncles tell us stories about there childhood and all the things they did when they were young. Because when my grandmother was young her mother told stories at the dinner table. And now me and my brothers tell stories about most of the crazy things we did when we were younger

I Am What I Am

I am What I am
My mothers first born
My fathers pride and joy
I fought this cold War all alone
Until a Pink blanky Came Along
Behind the curls was a little Brave Solider

Together we conquered the sandbox
and all the little twirps that came along
But nothing prepared us for the Storm of THING 1 & THING 2
Like love sucking Monsters they craved for attention
Little Did we know we'd be left out in the cold
They'd Be armored with Soccer Balls and Legos
Kicking and Building all around the house

Our Telephones and Uber Coolness
Because with one frown we'd be yelling out mercy
Once the balls stopped rolling
And the phones stopped ringing
We Not Only Became a family
We Became the '