Bio Poem - Diondra

Diondra

Tall, student, artist, poet

A character in the story Bronx Masquerade

Lover of  art, drawing, poetry

Who notices people making fun of her, people making fun of her height, and her dad making mean remarks

Who feels sad, happy, in the middle

Who learns to stand up for herself and show her true colors

Who used to think she was worthless, but now knows she has values

Major character in Bronx Masquerade

A book that shows students that slowly learn to accept themselves

Character Development

 The book Bronx Masquerade by Nikki Grimes is about a group of teenagers that are all facing different struggles. Their teacher Mr. Ward introduced something called "open mic Fridays" where they all share a poem on Friday. The main character/narrator of this book is a character named Tyrone. I am going to pick Diondra as a character that changed.

In the beginning of the book, most people thought since Diondra was so tall, that she liked sports, but she really didn't. What she did like was art, but her father had a problem with it. At the end of the book Diondra says "If I can get into an art school, I'm going." This shows that she accepted who she really was

I think one element of the story that effects Diondra is her father. Her father is always telling her that she can't do this or she can't do that, but in reality her father is just tearing her apart. When her father says those things, it makes Diondra feel like she can do nothing. She cannot show her ture colors because her father does not approve of it

Found Poetry

I would have to say i do not really have a theme in this poem. The message and main point in this poem is that a girl is carrying a book and a radio to somewhere. I decided to leave the reader confused as to where she was carrying the book and the radio so i just circled "a place" for the place she was carrying the radio and book too. I also drew a radio and a book to go along with the poem. FYI the last phrase i circled at the bottom says "a place." The "a" is just hard to read because i accidentally colored over it. Oops.

Spine Poetry

The theme of this poem is food and my emotions towards food. The message I am trying to give in this poem is that I have great expectations for food and that i get out of control with food (by out of control i mean i eat a lot). As you can see that is what the first 2 books say, Great Expectations and Out Of Control. Then the rest of the books talk about food

"Where I'm From"

Bronx Perspectives: Take 1

 The book Bronx Masquerade by Nikki Grimes is about a group of teenagers that are all facing different struggles. Their teacher Mr. Ward introduced something called "open mic Fridays" where they all share a poem on Friday. The main character/narrator of this book is a character named Tyrone.

The first characters I will be talking about are Gloria and Lupe. I think Gloria and Lupe are similar in some ways. Gloria is a mother but on the other hand Lupe wants to be a mother. I think they're similar in which that they are both related to motherhood. I think Gloria will soon tell Lupe that she does not need a baby to maker her happy and that there are other people that love her.

I think Devon And Tyrone are different people. Tyrone doesn't like school and he only goes to school because Wesley encourages him. On the other hand Devon really wants to be successful but he just can't because he is afraid of showing the real him and showing his true colors. He also does not like basketball.

Poetry Response

Nope

I put a piece of cantaloupe

Underneath the microscope.

I saw a million strange things sleepin’,

I saw a zillion weird things creepin’,

I saw some green things twist and bend–

I won’t eat cantaloupe again.

~Shel Silverstein: Falling up

The poem i am reading is about someone putting a cantaloupe under a microscope and finding weird creatures on it. I think the author wrote this poem to confuse people because it is weird how there would be creatures on a cantaloupe. I also think the author wrote this to be funny so that the poem can appeal to kids. I like this poem so Shel Silverstein did a good job writing it!

This is what i visualized while reading this poem:

I visualized this because it is exactly what the poem is like. A person looking through a microscope at tiny bugs on a cantaloupe. Shel Silverstein did a good job to make me visualize what the poem looked like.

This poem reminds me of text to self because I see bugs in fruit all the time. I can relate to the person in the poem because i also think it is disgusting when bugs are in food. I think this could also be text to world too though because I am pretty sure other people have seen bugs in food before and they think that is disgusting too.