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Hi everyone, welcome to my blog.
This blog is being written for my senior seminar English 495ESM Multigenre Literacy in a Global Context class. I am really looking forward to this class and assignment. I think technology has become a crucial part of our lives and it's wonderful to show that it can be used to make an impact and bring people together.

I love literature and I think technology allows people all around the globe to share their passion and reach an audience on a scale that would, at one point, have seemed impossible. This is a lesson I hope to teach my students when I become a high school teacher. Literature is not about writing a masterpiece, but expressing ones ideas and hopefully reaching someone in the process; with technology, doing that is easier than ever. Even Moodle and other such programs have made it easier for teachers to connect better with their students as well as Moodle forums allowing students to connect with other students. Through experience and with a little creativity, technology can be used to better connect with newer generation students and to teach them in a way that would actually fuel their passion for the subject.

Having never written a blog, this will be a nice way for me to be creative and share the lessons I learn this semester with others.
- Harjot K.

Monday, February 10, 2014

In Class Assignment & Song...

1.       Alliteration and Assonance List
a.       Alliteration
                                                               i.      Loving Life
                                                             ii.      Noticeably Nervous
                                                            iii.      Fumbling Fools
                                                           iv.      Politely Patient
                                                             v.      Suddenly Scared
                                                           vi.      Messy Mind
                                                          vii.      Calculatedly Calm
                                                        viii.      Really Rambunctious
                                                           ix.      Wonderfully Wise
                                                             x.      Courageous Coward
b.      Assonance
                                                               i.      Outrageously Obnoxious
                                                             ii.      Cool Wool
                                                            iii.      Nice Advice
                                                           iv.      Death Threat
                                                             v.      Slow Flow
                                                           vi.      Rare Aware
                                                          vii.      Sweet Treat
                                                        viii.      Care Flair
                                                           ix.      Art Heart
                                                             x.      Slap Trap
2.        Metaphors for Life
a.       Life: Life is a play.
b.      Death: Death is step into eternal darkness.
c.       Graduation: Graduation is like coming to the end of a road and building your own path forward.
d.      Having a Child: Having a child is like giving life to something that becomes your life.
e.      Marriage: Marriage is a waltz.
f.        First Love: Love is like finding the missing puzzle piece.
g.       Having a sibling: A sibling is a partner in crime.
h.      Losing a parent: Being thrust into a big world without a guiding hand.
i.         Your first birthday: Blowing out the candle
j.        Retirement: Enjoying the days of your youth, but with wisdom of experience.
3.       Lyrics and Musicality:
a.       Losing my Religion by R.E.M.
                                                               i.      Oh love
                                                             ii.      It’s mad.
                                                            iii.      It’s mad. Makes a fool, a fool of you and me
                                                           iv.      The things it makes us do.
                                                             v.      Crazy, we may all seem.
                                                           vi.      Oh I can’t believe I fell
                                                          vii.      In such a mess
                                                        viii.      This has become too much
                                                           ix.      I don’t know what I’ve done
                                                             x.      Why’d it happen?
                                                           xi.      Trying to sort out my thoughts
                                                          xii.      Wonder if I can do it.
                                                        xiii.      It’s become too much.


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