1. You need folders! Friday September 19, 2014
You may read the following:
-SSR book
-Autobiography/Biography
-Call It Courage… Ch 1-2 questions are due MONDAY!
You need folders!

2. Announcements: Homecoming week: Monday- decades day
Tuesday- Superhero day
Wednesday- Disney day
Thursday- Spirit day (Pep rally and block party)

3. Extra Credit… Due November 7 (next report card):
National Garden Club Poetry Contest (Hernando Civic Garden Club)
Poetry Contest!
THEME: Good Stewards of Our Earth
Rules:
1- Typed
2-Include name, address, age, grade, school, and Hernando Civic Garden Club on the BACK
3- Poems do not have to rhyme
4- Poems may be traditional verse, acrostics, blank verse, cinquains, diamond poems, limericks, or Haiku.

4. Acrostic From Lewis Carroll – Spelling out names...
Little maidens, when you look
On this little story-book,
Reading with attentive eye
Its enticing history,
Never think that hours of play
Are your only HOLIDAY. (Lorina)

5. Blank verse What is a Blank Verse Poem?
A blank verse is a poem with no rhyme but does have iambic pentameter. This means it consists of lines of five feet, each foot being iambic, meaning two syllables long, one stressed followed by an unstressed
The Structure of a Blank Verse Poem
Five feet of iambic syllables -
Sounding du DUM du DUM du DUM du DUM du DUM
Each foot making the verse sound like it has heart beat rhythm.
Each line has a set number of syllables

6. Look up…
From bleakening hills
Blows down the light, first breath
Of wintry wind…look up, and scent
The snow!
Cinquains: Cinquains are particularly vivid in their imagery and are meant to convey a certain mood or emotion.

7. Diamond Poem
Line 1: 1 noun Line 2: 2 adjectives that describe the noun in line 1 Line 3: three –ing verbs the writer associates with the nouns in line 1 Line 4: four nouns - the first two nouns are associated with the noun in line 1; the other two are associated with the noun in line 7 Line 5: three –ing verbs the writer associates with the nouns in line 7 Line 6: two adjectives that describe the noun in line 7 Line 7: one noun that is the opposite of the noun in line 1

8. A Diamond Poem Example:
Mountain High, rocky Flying, looking, killing Eagle, power, fear, rabbit Living, moving, making noise Deep, beautiful Valley

9. Limerick
A limerick is a humorous poem consisting of five lines. The first, second, and fifth lines must have seven to ten syllables while rhyming and having the same verbal rhythm. The third and fourth lines only have to have five to seven syllables, and have to rhyme with each other and have the same rhythm.

10. Limerick Example “There was an Old Man with a beard
Who said, 'It is just as I feared!
Two Owls and a Hen,
Four Larks and a Wren,
Have all built their nests in my beard!’”

11. Haiku: Haiku poems date from 9th century Japan to the present day.
A haiku poem consists of three lines, with the first and last line having 5 moras, and the middle line having 7. A mora is a sound unit, much like a syllable, but is not identical to it. Since the moras do not translate well into English, it has been adapted and syllables are used as moras.
Example: An old silent pond... A frog jumps into the pond, splash! Silence again.

12. Microsoft Word
You will type EVERYTHING this year if it is for a grade; therefore, you need to know what I expect of you in your typed assignments.

13. Microsoft Word Now, it’s your turn. Look at the assignment,
I will visually show you on the overhead, so that when you receive the assignment today, you will know what to do.
Now, it’s your turn. Look at the assignment,
and complete it by the end of the class period.
*When you are finished, complete your Kidblog from 9/11.