March 28, 2017

Jess Esso

Today in class we started off by getting a new website that allows us to use different tools to annotate and read different pieces of material as a class.  It is much like google docs but yet also different at the same time.  This website is called Kami.  first we downloaded it to our google accounts so we can access it from any computer wherever we are so that we always have our classroom material at our disposal.  Then with the second link that Mr. Rivers posted we went to a shared document with the entire class.  Mr. Rivers then proceeded to show us how this cite worked and the different tools that can be used to help us annotate our document as then groups instead of a class.  There are tools that allow you to create text boxes, one that allow us to draw on the document, one that allows us to erase things we don’t want there (even the text itself) we then went on to soapstone the poem we looked at last friday, “let america be america today again” by Langston Hughes  and using Kami, we as a class proceeded to soapstone this document.  Each group got a different device and had to annotate the document based upon which device we received on the card Mr. Rivers gave to us.  After this we came back together as a class and picked out the main literary device we have been using the past couple of weeks such as : parallel structure, anaphora, polysyndeton, rhyme, personification,  all of the devices that we have been working with to help us more fully understand soapstone.