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JOYAS VOLADORAS
Essay by Brian Doyle
Objectives :
-Define critical vocabulary words.
-Analyze the author’s style.
-Discuss the symbols and the
pathos meaning .
ESSENTIAL QUESTION
What is the physical relationship between humming
birds and blue whales ?
Living /non- living
Size
Organs
Colors
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• Choose the synonym for taut.
• a. uncomfortable
• b. stretched
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• Choose the synonym for harrowed.
• a. remembered
• b. pained
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• Choose the synonym for felled.
• a. struck down
• b. traveled with
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CRITICAL VOCABULARY
Taut
harrowed
felled
Choose the synonym for each word to see how many
of the Critical Vocabulary words you already know.
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The author
Brian James Patrick Doyle (1956-2017)
Writer Brian Doyle explored the spirit of Oregon’s small
towns and the wonders of the world. Describing himself as
“a story catcher,” he wrote about spirituality, family, nature,
place, wine, and the human heart with a distinctive playful
style and zest. The author of over two dozen books.
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• Joyas Voladoras Essay: Introduction
• The “Joyas Voladoras” essay by Brian Doyle speaks of hummingbirds and hearts, the life of whales, and
the life of man.
• Exploring the Mad Miracle of the Heart, which “Joyas Voladoras” is a segment of. His son, Liam, was
born with a missing chamber in his heart, which most likely prompted him to write this text.
•
That’s a profound reflection on life, death, and the experiences in between. In other words, the essay
examines the similarity of every creature on Earth.
• Watch the video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHpQSnSpehw
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• ANNOTATION MODEL
Data A
Data B
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Data C
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BACKGROUND
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We are often fascinated by extremes in
nature: minute, complex organisms that
function at a high level of efficiency, as well
as enormous animals that make us feel
insignificant by comparison. In this essay,
Brian Doyle (1956–2017) explores the heart
from both of these angles, as well as from
an emotional one. Doyle wrote several
books of essays, including The Wet Engine,
a meditation on the heart.
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SETTING A PURPOSE
• As you read, pay attention to the author’s style and
what the arrangement of the ideas in the text makes
you think and feel.
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Notice & Note
As you read, notice and note signposts in the
text.
Homework :Read the first four paragraphs.
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Consider
the hummingbird for a long moment. A
hummingbird’s heart beats ten times a second. A
hummingbird’s heart is the size of a pencil eraser. A
hummingbird’s heart is a lot of the hummingbird.
Joyas voladoras , flying jewels, the first white
explorers in the Americas called them, and the white
men had never seen such creatures, for
hummingbirds came into the world only in the
Americas, nowhere else in the universe, more than
three hundred species of them whirring and zooming
and nectaring in hummer time zones nine times
removed from ours, their hearts hammering faster
than we could clearly hear if we pressed our
elephantine ears to their infinitesimal chests.
• Paragraph 1 :
• CONTRASTS AND CONTRADICTIONS
• Notice & Note: What words are synonyms
for big and small? Highlight the synonyms
in the last sentence of paragraph 1.
• Analyze: What contrast is presented
here? What idea does the contrast help to
define?
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CHECK YOUR UNDERSTANDING
• Anatomical words or emotional words
are
What is the symbol of the
heart?
What is the symbol of the
hummingbird ?
What is the symbol of the
whale?
What is the symbol of the
blue ?
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Reflection
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Launch