HW from Tuesday, 3/6/18

Due on Thursday, 3/8/18

1) Revise your work for the following assignment from last Thursday, if necessary, based on all four of the patterns to be followed when writing a another stanza to this poem, which we discussed in class yesterday: rhyme scheme, syllabication, punctuation, repeated line.

Read the following verses from the poem “My Evening Prayer” by Charles Gabriel. (See below.) 

Complete the following: 

* Copy and paste the verses into a Word document. 

* Determine the rhyme scheme and write it next to the title, in proper form. 

* List whatever other patterns would be necessary to continue this poem with another stanza. 

* Finally, write another stanza of this poem, continuing with the same theme and the same rhyme scheme and poetry pattern.

* Print a copy of the poem—with your verse as the third stanza—and bring it to class on Tuesday.

My Evening Prayer

By Charles Gabriel

If I have wounded any soul to-day,

If I have caused one foot to go astray,

If I have walked in my own willful way—

Good Lord, forgive!

If I have uttered idle words or vain,

If I have turned aside from want or pain,

Lest I myself should suffer through the strain—

Good Lord, forgive!

2) Write one of each kind of cinquain described on the handout we went over in class yesterday. Type them nicely into a Word document—with a proper header—and then print them and bring them to class on Thursday.

3) Decide how many stanzas you would like to memorize for your first memory poem, based on the grading scale I distributed yesterday. Begin looking for a poem you would like to memorize. It should be meaningful somehow and worth committing to memory. It must be a published poem and you must know the author. It must not be a song. You may look in books of poetry you have at home or at the library. I will give you some online suggestions on Thursday. The poem must be selected by next Tuesday.

4) Be “dreaming and scheming” about your final story you’ll write this year, the “theme” story we began discussing today. You will be creating the setting (when and where) and the characters (who, and what are they like) and the plot (what happens) as well as determining the theme (the message you want to convey to your audience). Don’t worry yet about what theme you want to portray (we’ll be studying all about this in coming weeks), but do be giving thought to the other elements of narration as relates to the story you will be writing (setting, character, point of view, plot). Your finished story will need to fall between 10 and 25 pages. Please bear this in mind as you plan.

5) Be prepared for your Scripture memory quiz on the other two verses. It will be the same format as the one you took last week and will come anytime.

6) Grace and Caitlin only: write your next meaningful verse essay, which is now overdue. Also bring your completed, signed February Reading Log.

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Also, daily:

+ Read your (approved) book for pleasure, aiming for 30 minutes daily. Mark the number of minutes on your Reading Log as you go along—in multiples of five, rounded down—and have a parent initial it in the box each day. The March Reading Log will be due on Thursday, 3/29/18.

+ Each day, review your four memorized Scripture memory verses (Titus 2:11-14, Ephesians 4:29-32, Philippians 4:4-8, 1 Chronicles 29:11-13).

+ Make your bed! J

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OPENING (oral presentation of Bible verse and prayer):

Please be ready to do the opening on any day! I will have your verse essay available for you.                                                          

For Th, 3/8: Maddie (CWA); Ivy (CWB)

For Tu, 3/13: Caleb (CWA); Caitlin (CWB)
For Th, 3/15: Cassie (CWA); William (CWB)