HW from 4/5/11

Due on 4/7/11:
* Reading for Reading Log: 30 minutes daily. (Reading Log is due, signed by parent, at the end of the month.)

* Continue in your story with 30 minutes of time (on the timer), both thinking/planning and also writing.  Correct the things that were marked and continue from where you left off.  Give some thought as to what you might want the main conflict and climax to be.  (It doesn't have to be a big, dramatic deal... just what is the main interesting thing that is going to happen?)

* Write a diamante poem, using the following format:

noun

2 adjectives

3 gerunds (-ing verbs)

2 nouns 2 nouns

3 gerunds

2 adjectives

noun (antonym)

Remember that the first three lines pertain to the first noun, while the last three pertain to the second noun (which is a sort of antonym of the first one).  The middle line contains 2 nouns pertaining to the noun you named in the first line of the poem and another 2 nouns pertaining to the noun you will name in the last line of the poem (the antonym).


Remember also to write it out in the characteristic "diamond" shape of a diamante poem.


Here is an example:

Bird

Beautiful, Red

Flying, Singing, Eating

Clouds, Sky, Paws, Fur

Running, Jumping, Pouncing

Sly, Cautious

Cat

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OPENING (Bible verse and prayer):
For this Tu:
For this Th: Philip
For next Tu: Sarah
For next Th: Sam