http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Harry-Potter-and-the-Deathly-Hallows/J-K-Rowling/e/9780545010221/?tabname=custreview

http://laffydaffy.wordpress.com/2008/05/11/odysseus/#comment-9

http://laffydaffy.wordpress.com/2008/05/07/the-rich-man-or-the-cook/#comment-10

http://jen1228.wordpress.com/2008/05/09/poem-far/#comment-8

By Francine Pucillo 

Hands of every color
Reach across the world
Joining with each other
Defining love unfurled

Finding peace in helping
With tenderness and care
Hearts and souls all reaching
In silence love is there

Universal language
We each can understand
Hearts that touch so softly
Will fall upon each land

I hope one day this happens
I pray that this be so
With love and gentle kindness
World’s crown is soft rainbow.

SOAPSTONE

S- The subject is about how the world should be a better place

O-

A- The audience is everyone who do not care about the earth

P- The purpose of this poem is because the poet believes in a better world

S- The speaker is the poet

TONE- loving and caring

Poetic Devices- The poem is divided into six quatrains. The first line, “At times my heart imagines”, is a personification. It is giving a heart the ability to imagine. The last line is a metaphor. It compares the world with a rainbow. The rhyme scheme is ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ KLKL.

            Have you ever looked back and compared who you were then with whom you are now? In “The Marigold”, Lizabeth looks back at the memory that turned her into a woman.  Lizabeth, being an immature, creative leader, lead her to crush Miss Lottie’s marigolds – the only thing beautiful in their town. In the end, she learns a life lesson and plants marigolds.

          In the memory, Lizabeth is immature. When her brother, Joey, accused Lizabeth of being scared, she cursed and spat on the floor saying, “Y’all children get the stones, I’ll show you how to use ‘em”. It shows immaturity because she cares about what other people think of her. Seeing Miss Lottie in so much rage, went to Lizabeth’s head. She ran up to Miss Lottie and chanted: “Old witch, fell in a ditch, picked up a penny, and thought she was rich.” Her being immature, lead to her hurting Miss Lottie emotionally. Her immaturity caused her to be blinded and not see that what shat she was doing was wrong. After destroying Miss Lottie’s Marigold’s, she understood why she grew them in the first place. That was when Lizabeth “became a woman.”

          All the kids following Lizabeth makes her a leader. Lizabeth threw the first pebble at Miss Lottie’s marigolds. Shortly after Lizabeth started the chant: “Old witch, fell in a ditch, picked up a penny and thought she was rich”, everyone else “swarmed around Miss Lottie like Bees”. If Lizabeth wasn’t a leader, the other kids wouldn’t have been tagging along in the teasement of Miss Lottie. All the pranks make Lizabeth Creative. The older Lizabeth said “We children made a game of thinking of ways to disturb John Burke and then to elude his violent retribution.” They have nothing to do all day and make up games to have fun. A game the kids think is always fun, unfortunately, involves emotionally hurting Miss Lottie. If Lizabeth wasn’t creative, the kid’s games wouldn’t have been as harsh as it was.

Lizabeth is immature, creative, and a leader. Her personality lead to Miss Lottie’s marigolds to be forever destroyed. Learning her lesson, she planted Marigolds herself. She is no longer immature, but a “woman”.

The Greek God I am most interested in is Persephone. She is the daughter of Zeus and Demeter and the goddess of harvest.Persephone was so beautiful that Hades kidnapped her and made her live with him forever. That upset Demeter so much, that she wouldn’t let anything grow. Zeus knew this wasn’t good. He sent Hermes to tell Hades to let Persephone go. Hades let Persephone go, but gave her a pomegranate before she left. When she ate it, it made her stay in the underworld with Hades for a third of every year. In that time, Demeter won’t make anything grow. That is where we got winter.

I found this information at http://www.pantheon.org/       

I found the picture at www.proserpine.com

Hey! It’s Heidi Mae! I’m in Mrs. Matzke’s englis class. This new Weblog was an assignment by my english teacher.