Thursday, March 10, 2011

HW from 3/10/11

Due on 3/15/11:
* Reading Log (20 minutes daily)

* Take the quiz on Haiku poetry which I will email to you.  Follow the instructions on the handout.

* Complete a cinquain poem, following the model below in whichever ways you think are most important.

A lake
Beside an oak
A sad and silver face
That cries with yellow, yellow leaves
Autumn

Required: a cinquain poem is a poem five lines long

Possible other patterns to model (you choose which you think are most important):

+ a brief first line, followed by lines getting progressively longer until the last line
+ 2,3,5,6,1 word count per line
+ a one word "punch" at the end (last line)
+ each line ends with a noun
+ the first two lines, and the second two lines, "go together" as one thought/phrase
+ uses personification

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OPENING (Bible verse and prayer):

For this Tu: Sarah
For this Th: Rachel
For next Tu: Ethan
For next Th: Maddy

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