Blues Ain't No Mockin' Bird

 Today, we will be moving on to "Blues Ain't No Mockin' Bird".

HW: Work on journal for the story - look at "For Journals" below. 

When you read "Blues Ain't No Mockin' Bird" - and look for imagery, allusions, metaphors, similes, symbols, dialect, and irony.  You need to take notes on the description of Granddaddy Cain.

FOR JOURNALS:

1) What are some descriptions of Granddaddy Cain?  (List all you can find.  You'll need to compare him to Pa Sexton).

2) What are some descriptions of Camera and Smilin' (is there anything ironic about their names?)

3) List all the allusions you can find.

4) List descriptions of the setting?

5) List examples of dialect.

Definition of Blues:

noun

1.

melancholic music of black American folk origin, typically in a twelve-bar sequence. It developed in the rural southern US toward the end of the 19th century, finding a wider audience in the 1940s as blacks migrated to the cities. This urban blues gave rise to rhythm and blues and rock and roll.