|
Day |
Assignment |
| Monday: Thoughts about your name |
First: Talk to your parents and ask them why
they chose to name
you what they did
Second: Do this for both your first, middle,
and last name |
Wednesday: Now research on the internet
what your first, middle and
last names
really mean. |
Go to the websites listed at the left to help
you with your
search and below:
last-names.net/
zelo.com/firstnames/index.asp |
Friday: Display these findings in an artistic
manner |
Take your first, middle and last names and
taking a 13x18 poster
board
arrange what you have found
about
your name. Make this an
aesthetic
collage with sufficient insight
for your
names |
Monday: Make an in class presentation of
your findings |
Displaying your project on the posterboard,
present it to the class |
| On Final Exam Day |
Turn in a heritage/ego poem developed
from this project following the
criteria
presented below |
HERITAGE/EGO
POEM
You are to write a poem
celebrating your heritage and yourself, the product of that heritage.
The poem must be typed
and the criteria highlighted in different markers to show
what they
are and match a legend on the cover sheet. You have done this
before.
rest is up to you.
The poem must contain the
following:
Your name
An adjective describing your last name
The country of your origin/nationality
Written in First person
Language of origin
Tell your best feature
Something about your personality
Something inherited from an ancestor
Mention one specific ancestor
One experience from your youth that was meaningful
Three items about your life
Future/wishes/hopes
Must make sense and flow together
Maybe difficulties, failures, joys, triumphs
Can discuss ancestors more than an ego poem about you,-your call
These poetic terms must be
shown:
1 allusion
2 similes and/or metaphors
1 personification
Does not have to have a rhyme scheme, but it can rhyme
Can be done in rap form
DUE: Friday, May 13,
2005.
Examples:
I
AM
WHO
I
AM
BECAUSE
Being a (last
name)
I receive not only my name,
But also....
My genes made me
what I am
I never met my
(list ancestor)
My family tree,
Produced me...
Rubric
