HW from 5/5/11

Due on 5/10/11:
* Reading for Reading Log: 30 minutes daily.

* Re-scan any of the poems that you scanned incorrectly in the poem packet I gave you.  Attempt to correctly identify the rhythmic foot for each of the poems listed below.

TOGETHER WE DID:
+ A Baby's Feet - p.38 (iambic)
+ Little - p.38 (dactylic)
+ Slippery - p.39 (iambic)
+ Two in Bed - p.40 (trochaic)
+ Our Silly Little Sister - p.40 (anapestic)
+ The Quarrel - p.41 (iambic)

FOR HOMEWORK, YOU SHOULD DO:
+ In Go-Cart So Tiny - p. 38
+ Sisters - p.39
+ Big Brother - p.41
+ The Cupboard - p.42
+ Afternoon with Grandmother - p.42
+ Animal Crackers - p.43
+ Setting the Table - p.44
+ Manners - p.44
+ I've Got A New Book... - p.45
+ A Child's Grace - p.45
+ A Pop Corn Song - p.45
+ When Young Melissa Sweeps - p.46
+ I Like Housecleaning - p.47
+ Mumps - p.47
+ The Land of Counterpane - p.48
+ Mr. Nobody - p.49

YOU DO NOT HAVE TO DO:
+ Little Brother's Secret - p.49

NOTE: There is only ONE poem in this list that is free verse.  All others are either primarily iambic, trochaic, anapestic, or dactylic.


* Memorize your poem(s) for recitation, if you have not already done so.

* Write in your journal at least once per day.  Use first person.  If you address an audience at all, it should be God.

* Finish your ballad.  Remember to incorporate the theme for your age group and to use the following (see handout for more explanation):

+ Ballads are narrative.  They tell a story.
+ Use either ABCB or ABAB rhyme scheme.
+ Use quatrain (four-line stanzas).
+ Lines 1 and 3 are  iambic tetrameter (four S-L rhythmic feet).
+ Lines 2 and 4 are iambic trimeter (three S-L rhythmic feet).


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OPENING (Bible verse and prayer):
For this Tu: Rachel
For this Th: Maddy
For next Tu: Josh
For next Th: Ethan