Assignment April 14th

1.  Finish your black out poem and post it.

2. Comment on at least three other poems.  Go here to find the other poems!

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3.  Choose to either write about your reading or a Slice of Life.

4. You may work on Think Through Math or Study Island if you still haven't finished.

Assignment April 8th

Good Morning!

Since April is poetry month, I want to continue to push you as a writer of poetry.  Therefore, you are going to make a blackout poem.


Steps to making a blackout poem:

• 1.) Find a page in your current book that you absolutely love.  
• 2.) Take your book to Mrs. Nabors to make a copy of that page.

• 3.) Circle/Box the MOST important words or phrases on that page.

• 4.) Blackout all of the other words.  Your circled words should stand out!
• 5.) Start a new blog post.  The name of your post will be Blackout poem.  
• 6.) You will type the words that you have left into a free verse poem!

My poem is here if you want to read it!

I can not wait to read what your poems!!!



When you finish your poem, comment on 3 other blogs.  Be sure to use kind and respectful words!

When you finish your poem, you may write other poems to post.  I saw many of you did not finish last week's assignment.  You may click here to go back to that assignment post.

Enjoy your poetry writing time this morning!

April 1st - National Poetry Month

Good Morning!

I am so proud of each of you!  You have had a busy week, and I am thankful that each of you are in my class!  You are awesome!!

1.  Click here to enter your 10 words or phrases that describe the STAAR test.  Put a comma between each word or phrase.
                                (You did these on Wednesday in your journal!)

2.  April is National Poetry Month!!  Did you know that?  So in order to celebrate, we are going to write poetry this month.  Today,  you will go visit this teacher's website.  You need to pick 3 different styles of poems.  Write them first on a piece of paper, and then blog each one!

Cinquain

These poems are called cinquains.  Are they free verse or rhyming?  Click here to see the pattern of how to write a cinquain.  Try one of your own.  You can use thesaurus.com to help you come up with a synonym.

3. After you have posted your poems, click on our class website and open four different classmates' blogs and comment on their poetry posts.  Remember to be respectful with your words!

4.  Now, you may free blog and blog about your reading!

We are going to have a super, awesome day!  

Happy Blogging!