A Poem About Your Favorite Color

“Bilingual/Bilingue” is a beautiful poem about the struggles a young girl goes through to learn a new language. Although she loves learning English, her father fears that the language is going to cause her to forget about who she truly is. Rhina P. Espaillat wrote “Bilingual/Bilingue” using English and Spanish along with figurative language to describe a father’s fear of losing his daughter to a language he could not master. The first type of figurative language the poet uses is metaphor.

As we all know, color is the voice for the artist 's sentiment. It makes up the appearance of a picture. Color is the decisive factor in depths of the two-dimensional plane of the artwork, making the viewer feel physically and mentally attracted, or the context of things - the phenomenon the author wants to present. Colors have been around for a long time, but there is not a common definition for colors. And perhaps humans are one of the luckiest creatures that can identify colors. Often, the recipient 's eye knows a myriad of colors and colors that always change based on the relationship between light and perspective. In art, color creates a sense of

Colors are used in literature to describe the different emotions of a character. Colorism is a type of symbolism used in literature. Death uses color symbolism in The Book Thief to describe a character's emotion because he is the narrator. Color symbolism in literature is when the author uses a color to symbolize the character's emotion; it occurs throughout The Book Thief. Red, white, and gray or silver are the colors that are used the most frequently and have the biggest meanings throughout the novel.

Color drives a significant amount of the meaning in this poem, as the idea is used in

I did this activity with 3 children. I first had them sit down while I read the book “Sort it Out” by Barbara Mariconda, after reading the book we talked about the different items that Pack rat came home with, and how his mother told him to sort them out. We discussed what items at home had to go in a particular place, for example, dishes in the kitchen, beds, in the bedrooms, toilets in the bathrooms, to list a few. We followed by talking about the types of shoes we were wearing, and the color of the shoes. How we were all wearing sneakers, and how every one was wearing a different color. I Introduced them to the Jumbo Pegs, and the Pegboards, and I went over the different colors inside the tub. I asked they what their favorite color was, and once we they had all chose their color, I asked them to grab a pegboard, and look through the container for the color they choose, and place them into the pegboard. They all started

In “How it Feels to be Colored Me,” Zora Hurston tells her story as she transformed into a wiser person. She began to see race as an important divinity for identity and something that should not be viewed as an important to the society. When Hurston was 13 years old, she moved to a school in “Jacksonville” a village where the mass majority of the population were white. Thus, Hurston for the first time in her life, endured alienation by a different racial group. Hence, she was raised in a village where the population was Black. So, she had never been in a situation where her skin was problematic to the society. As Hurston tries to assimilate in Jacksonville she states to have “become fast brown” (line 36). Clarifying, her Blackness was clearly being discriminated, and she began to notice her skin color. However, Hurston didn’t see this as a damaging reflection. She believed that everyone was different, and being colored was one of those differences. Therefore, race should be embraced, and celebrated just like a culture; in other words, we are how we are born; live your life to fullest by looking beyond the discriminative notion of our society.

Colors convey feelings and emotions without using words. One of the most universally recognized color is green. The color green expresses emotions and feelings. In The Great Gatsby, the color green represents hopes, social class, and wealth. The green light in this novel is situated at the end of Daisy's dock which Gatsby stares at. It symbolizes Gatsby dream to achieve Daisy, which is unreasonable and that dream is far from his reach, as he says “Involuntarily I glanced seaward and distinguished nothing except a single green light minute and far away that might have been at the end of the dock” (F. Scott Fitzgerald. The Great Gatsby. Scribner Paperback Fiction. New York. 1925 p. 21). Gatsby looking at the green light from the far distance represents his eagerness to

The post-Civil Right era has seen the dismantle of racial categorization based on Biology. The theory that race influences the psychological, cultural and socio-economic aspect of one’s life has predominantly vanished. This accomplishment left a void for those who needed the biological discourse of race to establish their racist ideology. Colorblindness is the new methodology of implementing or otherwise avoiding the existence of racism. Its proponents predominantly assert its validity through the concept of the Civil Right Movement and the distorted understanding of the fact that “race is a social construct.” While the phrase implies that race is an illusion and nonexistent in nature, it also contains an often overlooked acknowledgment of race being an influential reality under the consideration of its social construction.

Read the poem “Five green and speckled frogs”. Read it once out loud with them. Then pass out the little cards paper clipped together to random students. Have them find the words that match the sounds in the poems.

I would expand into science. By mixing colors and looking at the outcome of the colors. Math would also be a subject to expand into, teaching them to count and identify numbers. Then nutrition would be a bid topic, I would have them sorting food by their taste, texture and color.

Colors “The property possessed by an object of producing different sensations on the eye as a result of the way the object reflects or emits light.” (Dictionary) Colors represent emotions, like how red represents love and lust, colors have deeper meanings. The colors that best represent Steinbeck’s Of Mice & Men are yellow, black, and blue because, these colors represent joy, death, and trust.

In literature color is often used to create a mood within the story. Within the two mediums I picked. The Book Thief and A Single Man. Zusak and Ford utilize color to represent emotions and feelings in a character. More specifically, they focus on darkness to further accentuate the main characters’. George and Liesel. struggles with death and trauma. George and Liesel both experience traumatic deaths in their lives; however, Liesel finds a way to overcome this trauma without letting it define her, while George lets it fester and remains lost in mourning.

Color is a huge part of how people view different emotions and feelings. For an example, when people see the color black, they may feel darkness and loneliness. Using color as a description in books can really help the reader better understand what the author is trying to get across. Color can mean so much more than shades and tints, it can show true meaning and emotion. Its proven that warm colors generate thoughts of happiness, energy, and optimism.

The book that I choose to do my read aloud of is titled Mix It Up! by Herve Tullet. This interactive story is about mixing primary colors to make secondary colors. For example, when the primary colors of blue and red are mixed together, the secondary color of purple is created. Similarly, by mixing blue and yellow together, green is made. In addition to students learning about the primary and secondary colors, they also learn that white paint can be added to any color to make it lighter. In contrast, if black is added to the colors, they become darker. I chose this book because I like how the students can easily interact with the text and feel like they are part of the “mixing experience.” I also liked how this book appeals to all the different

Inspire the children to create! Read The Dot or Ish by Peter H. Reynolds to them. Show them pictures of relief prints that might peak their interest. Draw inspiration from the outdoor: explore the colours, flowers, bugs, birds, and bees of springtime, basks in the gloomy colours of rain or the bright whiteness of the snow. Present them with actual articles to look at, like flowers, leaves, branches, fruit, and vegetables. I suggest demonstrating the final step of the activity to get the children excited, as pulling the paper away to reveal a print seems to be the most appealing for young children.