Tutorial: Rhyme Royal and Quatrain

 Did you know that rhyme royal stanza consists of seven lines, usually in iambic pentameter. The rhyme scheme is a-b-a-b-b-c-c. In practice, the stanza can be constructed either as a tercet and two couplets (a-b-a, b-b, c-c) or a quatrai and a tercet (a-b-a-b, b-c-c). This allows for variety, especially when the form is used for longernarrative poems. Along with the couplet, it was the standard narrative meter in the late Middle Ages.

Example:

      

     Opening to Thomas Wyatt's rhyme royal poem:

They flee from me that sometime did me seek

With naked foot, stalking in my chamber.

I have seen them gentle, tame, and meek,

That now are wild and do not remember

That sometime they put themself in danger

To take bread at my hand; and now they range,

Busily seeking with a continual change.

 Here, I made my own rhyme royal:

Gazing up the sky; seeing clear clouds,

Looking down, stepping on what's call land,

Viewing horizon, looking on my side.

Children making castle out of sand,

 Adults laughing to jokes that are bland.

At night, watching stars like candle lights,

Making little magic when comes the night.

A quatrain is a four line stanza poem.  There are twelve possible rhyme schemes, but the most traditional and common are: AAAA, AABB and ABAB. In these poems, they are written to be sad, or talk about a grave matter.

Example:

 (iambic pentameter, rhyming ABAB  from Thomas Gray's "Elegy in a Written Country Churchyard")

The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,

The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea,

The plowman homeward plods his weary way,

And leaves the world to darkness and to me.

Here is my example of quatrain with ABCD rhyme:

Since I was a kid up to now,

They loved and cared for me,

Work hard to support our family,

To my parents, I salute you.

I hope you learn something.

Essay:

Projects,,,,
whenever we hear that words, students give different reactions. Why do we need to make a project anyway. It is a course requirement or the teacher just want to make his/her life miserable.

Projects are made for a long time. one need to be creative and project uniqueness in order to stand out and have high grades and also learn something in the process. One must think and plan thoroughly to execute it. One must read, search, think, understand and plan it uniquely.

Miss Misunderstood

First day of class, 
While everyone's excited, 
I feel the dread--
I'm a fragile glass.


New faces,
New crazy friends, 
New crushes, 
New fashion trends.

I kept my silence, 
They took it negatively,
I have a clear conscience,
They thought me unfriendly.

Hey miss misunderstood,
Do you have friends? 
All alone from where you stood?

NO, I HAVE SOMEONE TO CALL A FRIEND.

Africa: The Next Breadbasket to the Planet

A local from Africa harvesting corn.

     By 2050, we'll need to feed 2 billion more people added to the current world population. How are we going to accommodate them?

     But Africa with its vast desert prove to have the highest yield gap on earth. The land although a desert have a rich soil to be cultivated. Since 2007, investors all over the world bought lands in Africa and do farming, planting corns, soybeans, wheat, rice some of them plant fruits and vegetables suitable for the climate and land in Africa. Investors bought their land from the government, employers employ the locals, their economy is blooming every year. 

    In Africa there is plenty of land to plow and experiment with. If the agriculture continue its growth and investor continue seeing the possibility having profit in it, Africa will be the next breadbasket in the planet. Most countries will import their food from Africa. Africa will be from one of the hungriest place in the world to the next supplier\exporter of food to the planet. By that we ca accommodate people without being short of supply, if the growth continues.

Revenge of Mother Earth

A flash flood raging down the community.

     When I was a kid, I used to swim in the river near our school in the province but last summer i visited the river, there was no river. All I saw was some dried rocky cave in land. The river was gone. Many water formations like river already dried up because of global warming. I'm lucky I got to experienced such natural beauty but kind of sad for the next generation.

     Later on my stay, it rains non-stop. The river got back the water it lost, the problem was the water is not the usual clear one but brown muddy one. The current of the water was very strong, it impossible to any one to cross it by foot or by boat. It grows larger, the river overflow and flooded the community, making people run to evacuation area. While they evacuate, large rocks came rolling and tumbling down from the mountain and some of its side is falling, there is definitely a landslide.

    When the rain stopped, the whole community was covered with mud and rocks. Ah I remembered, when I was young the community Dons sold their land to a company. Every men above 18 got a job and a sum of money for salary. They cut trees in the mountain and do mining. Everyone is happy, the company employs and pays the people, the company donates to the school and build roads. They think it is okay to cut trees and didn't think of the consequences, they are happy as they are. Now it pays out, since the mountain have no enough trees to hold the water, it flooded the community. As people walked back to their houses, their faces was ashen with shock and mixed emotions written all over them: fear, regret, hurt, sad. What if it happened again? are we safe here? Well it might happened again since they still continue mining.

"Kayo ang Boss ko" REALLY!

President Benigno Aquino also known as Pnoy

       Pnoy always say "Kayo ang Boss ko". Well I didn't really understand what does it mean.He said that in every time he speech but if he really mean what he said then why is there always a price hike and inflation rate in every goods are very high. If he mean that , he needs to protect the interest of the people. He needs to make the people to feel that they are part of the government and the government is made for the people not to those politician who want to be rich by corrupting the peoples money, taxes.Our economy is said to be going up, but few people fell that, most are not. 

     My neighbor told me that he will vote Pnoy for president if he's a candidate in the 2016 election. I asked why, she told me because of 4P's, that simple. She said even if she didn't have a job the government give her money, instant money. That's the problem with most Filipino, they believe if a person give them money they need to vote for him to continue the pension. But where did that money came from, most people don't give a damn about that s long as they received the money.

     Corona was impeach because he didn't file all his incomes on his SALN. Enrile was the head of the senate then.Enrile together with Revilla And Estrada voted Corona yo be impeached, the problem was those three are involved on the PDAF scam allegedly run by the infamous Janet Lim Napoles. Some of the witnessed pointed Enrile as the head of the scam and run it with Revilla and Estrada. Those three was already arrested. Anyway, Pnoy insisted on impeaching Corona so that he can appoint a new chief justice, the one that is under his care. He help the senate to gather evidence, Enrile was on his side at that time. Now that Enrile was arrested, will Pnoy aid him even if he is suspected as the head the billions peso scam? Well, Who knows.

Book\Movie Review

Hilary Swank with Scott Glenn, Imelda Staunton, Patrick Dempsey and Jason Finn

Freedom Writers

Freedom Writers is a 2007 drama film based on the Freedom Writers Diary by Erin Gruwell.

It features discrimination between students, they separates bright students to the at-risk students also known as unteachable. Erin Gruwell is became the teacher of the at-risk students. Erin students felt neglected by the school so they do whatever they want, they cut classes, involved themselves in gang fights and some of them didn't attend school at all. The school heads are very uncooperative telling her she need to focus on disciplining the students rather than teaching them. The school didn't allow them to use books in fear being damaged and lost. Erin made them read a book of Anne Frank diary, her adventures, her fears, her lovelife, her stay in the attic when Hitler ordered to kill every Jews. The students were engrossed in reading the book. Erin let them keep a diary just like Anne Frank, she reads them everyday after class. After reading each diary, she understands why her students have such behavior. They've been trough a lot. She didn't teach them traditionally, she teach them by how her students learn and associate themselves to learn. She conducts activities and encourages them to write. By the end of the school year, fighting ceased and they established a school newspaper.

Teacher is the second parent of the students. Some of them didn't have the house to call home, teacher need to let them know they are welcome and wanted. Teachers job is not just to teach the students but also to cultivate their behavior and attitudes. Every child is a potential genius. Teachers just need to help them find out what they're good at and enriched them.