Name: Writing Poems about History

Assignment: Show me what you have learned about the Challenges to Slavery and Succession by writing a poem about slavery. You will use the Diamante template below to help you. You can use your notes to help you.

Task 1: Pick two topics from the list below to write about. Pick something you feel confident you know a lot about.

• Harper’s Ferry Raid

• John Brown

• Dred Scott

• The Douglas-Lincoln Debates

• The South Seceding

• Attack on Fort Sumter

Task 2: Examine the structure of a Diamente Poem by reading the information below.

A diamante poem (also known as a diamond poem) is a seven-line poem that forms the shape of a diamond. Instead of sentences, diamante poems are made with individual nouns, adjectives and verbs, and can either describe two similar topics or two opposite topics. Diamante poems do not have to rhyme.

Below is the correct layout for a diamante poem:

Noun

adjective, adjective

verb, verb, verb

noun, noun, noun, noun

verb, verb, verb

adjective, adjective

Noun

A Noun is a person, place, thing or idea. Example: Abe Lincoln

An Adjective describes or modi¬fies a noun. Example: Tall, Brave

A Verb is an action or state of being. Write an example of a verb. Examples: Leading, governing.

Here is an example of a completed Diamente Poem:

Lincoln

Brave, Tall

Leading, Governing, Fighting

Freedom, Slavery, Honor, Emancipation

Arguing, law-making, freeing

Honorable, Righteous

President

Task 3: Now it’s your turn. Pick any two topics from the above list and write two poems. Use the format above. Hint: Using -ing words helps on the verb lines.

Type your two poems below and then save your work and submit it to your teacher to be graded. HELP ME

the two major parties acting together and cooperating when making decisions is bipartisan

paul willis (born 1950) is a british social scientist known for his work in sociology and cultural studies. paul willis' work is widely read in the fields of sociology, anthropology, and education, his work emphasizing consumer culture, socialization, music, and popular culture. he was born in wolverhampton[1] and received his education at the university of cambridge and at the university of birmingham. he worked at centre for contemporary cultural studies and subsequently at the university of wolverhampton. he was a professor of social/cultural ethnography at keele university. in the autumn of 2010, he left keele university and is now a professor at princeton university.

paul willis’s work has focused mainly, but not exclusively, on the ethnographic study of lived cultural forms in a wide variety of contexts. from highly structured to weakly structured ones, willis examines how practices of `informal cultural production` to produce and construct cultural worlds `from below`.[2]

trained in literary criticism at cambridge,[2] paul willis received his phd in 1972 from the centre for contemporary cultural studies at birmingham university where he remained as senior research fellow until 1981. he gave a paper at the 9th symposium of the natiohnal deviancy conference in january 1972 entitled 'a motor-bike subculture

during the 1980`s willis served as youth policy adviser to wolverhampton borough council in the english midlands. there he produced the youth review (published by the council and ashgate) which formed the basis for youth policy and for the formation of the democratically elected youth council, both still functioning. during the 1990s he served first as head of the division of media, communications and cultural studies, and then as a member of the professoriate at the university of wolverhampton. in 2000 willis co-founded the sage journal, ethnography. in 2003 willis was hired as a head professor of social and cultural ethnography at keele university.