19 MAY 2015 Bell Activity: Create a list of favorite summer time activities or summer time food. The list should be at least 20 items long. There will sharing and a competition. Today’s Agenda: Portfolio Project: 4 POEMS DUE NEXT WEDNESDAY W RITING C ONDITIONS & P rivileges DURING THE PORTFOLIO PROJECT

IN EACH GROUP…. Compare your lists. If you have listed an activity or item that another group member has listed, it must be checked off. After you have compared lists, the person in your group with the most items or activities NOT checked off IS A FINALIST & must submit their list to Mrs. Saunders for the FINAL ROUND. FINAL ROUND: During the FINAL ROUND, if you have the same item or activity as one of those read by Mrs. Saunders, raise your hand. It will be checked off the finalist list in her hand. THE PERSON WITH THE MOST UNIQUE ITEMS OR ACTIVITIES WINS.

“COMPOSITION TIME”: Work on your poetry portfolio It is a quiet, INDEPENDENT writing time. You are to actively write, revise, read and rewrite your own portfolio poems. For the next week and a half we will have class time broken into “PARTNER WORK”: You may use this time to work with a partner on your poetry. During this time you are to assist one another, read each other’s poems, listen to the poems, share ideas, share revision suggestions. “REVISION TIME”: During REVISION TIME you must stop what you writing and WORK OF REVISING one of your portfolio poems. REVISION QUESTIONS: What word would work better? Does your rhythm need work? Can you develop an image more clearly and vividly Is there anyplace in your poem where figurative language would strengthen the poem?

STARTING TOMORROW… YOU MAY BRING HEADPHONES AND LISTENTO YOUR OWN MUSIC DURING COMPOSITION & REVISION TIME. HOWEVER, YOU MAY NOT HAVE YOUR HEADPHONES ON DURING OTHER CLASS TIMES YOU MAY NOT HAVE THE MUSIC LOUD ENOUGH THAT OTHERS CAN HEAR YOU MUST HAVE YOUR PHONE OR DEVICE ON THE DESK, FACEUP YOU MAY NOT SHARE HEADPHONES WITH OTHERS. YOUR PHONE OR HEADPHONES MAY NOT BE VISIBLE OR USED OUTSIDE OF MY CLASSROOM. IF YOU BREAK ONE OF THE ABOVE RULES: YOU WILL LOSE THE PRIVILEDGE. IF THERE ARE ANY BEHAVIOR ISSUES AS A CLASS, THEN THE PRIVILEDGE WILL END.

2015 POETRY PORTFOLIO You are required to compose and submit:  1 original FAVORITE THINGS PEOM  1 original BOX poem  2 original poems following 2 different CHOICE options “I Don’t Understand…” “Over And Over And Over..” “First Line…to…Last Line” “Rediscovered Poem” An original poem of your own design All 4 portfolio poems, are due May 27, 2015

Poetry Portfolio poems due May 27 1 Favorite things 1 Box poem 2 Different Choice Poems + 4 different poems using 4 different formats

1.List all the possible themes 2.Create a list of associations for the best couple of theme possibilities 3.Choose the theme you like best and group associations together 4.Write a descriptive stanza for each group. 5.Write the repeated line that goes between the stanza 6.Revise one of the stanzas 7.Write the title of your poem 10 Steps to a composing the ultimate Box Poem 8.Take a break 9.REVISE another stanza 10.READ through the entire poem. 11.REVISE 2 of the other stanzas 12.READ through the poem again. 13.Can you see lines where you can add alliteration, assonance, consonance or onomatopoeia? 14.REVISE – HAVE A FRIEND READ IT – REVISE AGAIN. 15.Copy to a final Draft.

Summer Childhood Fair 7 th grade Brother - Kerry Dad Elba Creek Books Grandma’s library Family dinner Family wedding Disneyland POSSIBLE POSSIBLE THEMES: Other themes:

Images and feelings that go with the theme: Family wedding Happy Chaos Laughing Ethan crying No socks Bright pastel dresses Trampoline Forgotten rings Crowded home Uninvited rain Ham sandwiches Ruby jewelry Scott laughing Ringlet curls on girls Voices chatting Sincere well wishes

Cafeteria Lockers Notebooks Best friends Drama 5 ‘4” Jeans Hair English World Civ Coffee stained cup Dead frogs Books 7 th Grade Images and feelings that go with the theme: