Monday, 15 September 2025

Sept 15, 2025

 Hello! Here's what we're up to today:

  • Checking in
  • Recapping Friday
  • Literary terms
    • Thematic Statement
    • Allusion
  • How to analyse a song
    • The importance of ambiguity in literature
    • Listen to it once, and offer an honest first reaction
    • Spend time reading through it to find words and sentences that might need further explanation
    • Listen to it a second time, and see what you notice
      • Literary terms
      • Questions
    • Listen to it a third time, and offer some analysis
      • Engage with it
        • Offer an opinion
        • What does it remind you of in your life or in the world?
        • What other text does it remind you of?
      • Write a thematic statement to try to capture what it might be saying
  • "Freedom" by Beyonce (Featuring Kendrick Lamar)
    • Background
      • Marriage of Jay Z and Beyonce
      • Infidelity and Solange
      • Lemonade Project - interweaving legacies of slavery with modern relationships
      • Grammy's reception
    • Lyrics
    • Song
    • Performance from "Homecoming"
  • Activity on "Freedom"
    • Identify symbols
    • Create a thematic statement
  • How might this work in your next assignment?
  • Freewrite

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