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Thursday, October 29, 2009

Thursday, Sophomore English

Today we started with a quiz on "Human" by The Killers. It had 10 questions:
1. Are we human, or are we dancer?
2. What does the word "inference" mean?
3. Give an example from the text that you would only know from the process of inference:
4.What does the word "context" mean? What is the context of "Human"?
5. What does the word "subtext" mean?
6. Why was the video filmed in Utah?
7. What did the white tiger symbolize?
8. What did the cougar symbolize?
9. What is the tone of "Human"?
10. What is the theme of "Human"?

Then we discussed "Lovers in Japan" and reviewed context, subtext, inference, tone and theme.
We compared it to

Homework: Get your biography (autobiography)


DUE TODAY: A song you found that has a different tone than the theme. Write a paragraph that described it.