Jordan Crawford
Graphic organizer
Essay #1
September 12, 2011
Graphic organizer
Connections
Connecting a Raisin in the Sun, For a Dancer, and my life
(TS)What do a book a song and a life have in common? Well you are about to find out.
(CM) Seeing the benefit of connections
(CM) “For a Dancer”
(CM)Relations in your life that can be compared
(TS)My life as a raisin
(SD) Walking up an elevator that goes down
(CM)My goal to get a hedgehog or cat
(CM) People say I already have a “zoo”
(SD) Beating the heat during summertime
(CM) Wanting to go outside
(CM) The heat stops me and metaphorically shrivels me
(SD) Raisin are small grapes but are still sweet
(CM) Our class got smaller and closer to becoming nothing
(CM) The class is still great or sweet even though the loss
(TS) The song of losses
(SD) My guinea pig’s death
(CM) Expect him to always be there with me
(CM) In some cases I took him for granted just as Jackson Browne did for his wife
(SD)The tragedy of nine eleven
(CM) Jackson Browne didn’t now why at the time his wife did what she did
(CM) Like how I didn’t know what happened to the towers.
(SD) A strong belief or point
(CM) No matter what fate chooses to play
(CM) No matter what you are going to do it
(CS) A song can be repeated kind of like a life
(TS) The poem and the song where not just about sadness
(CM) It was more about putting tough things in life in a way people can shown
(CM) Jackson Browne put his sadness in a song
(CS) Try writing down your sadness or putting it into a song.
