Wednesday

Today we are going to continue to read "Blues Ain't No Mockin' Bird".

Things to look for 
1) Allusions
2) Metaphors
3) Similes
4) Descriptions of Granddaddy Cain
5) Descriptions of Granny Cain
6) Symbols
7) Examples of dialect

Remember you will be either comparing/contrasting Granddaddy Cain with Pa Sexton.

Definition of Blues:
noun

1.

melancholic music of black American folk origin, typically in a twelve-bar sequence. It developed in the rural southern US toward the end of the 19th century, finding a wider audience in the 1940s as blacks migrated to the cities. This urban blues gave rise to rhythm and blues and rock and roll.

 

 

 

New Vocabulary

Pedantry
Odious
Luxuriant
Dictum
Cacophony
Proclivity
Proboscis
Stratum
Mausoleum
Marionette
Phoenix