- Writing and Performing Tall Tales
- Punctuating Dialogue
- Synthesizing and Paraphrasing Practice
- West Region Activities
- State Report Guidelines
- Poetry Parties
"Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better." Maya Angelou
Sunday, January 17, 2010
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mr. buxton, you should make just like a random commenting post so if people have random questions that's were they can ask it.
~Juliana
WHEN IS THE POETRY PARTY?
SOMEBODY PLEASE ANSWER PDQ
robert fuller
WHEN IS THE POETRY PARTY?
SOMEBODY PLEASE ANSWER PDQ
robert fuller
bux - thur 2.20
gra -fri 2.20
Does our group poem go in our poetry booklet?
Also can we add more poem to our booklet that we want to recite at the party?????
ASAP...
When are we doing our tall tales?
Please answer asap (as soon as posible)
yes to everything sarah
For science newspaper when it says how much the mission cost what do they mean?
Abigail
how much money it took to make the mission to find the species possible
does the H/W thing mean math too
can we do r poem abt a lot of stuff?
Here is a rough draft of my poem.. please share thoughts of how to make it better
The One-Sided Mountain
By Robert Fuller
Oh, what a shame it would be,
If a mountain had only one side
All the climbers with nothing to challenge
All the goats with nowhere to hide
But what if a person were one-sided too
An awful disgrace as well
If they only enjoyed one thing
And all other interests just…fell
Maybe the key is to have many
Interests that you think are fun
For everyone knows a pack of wolves
Often hunts better than one
If one only cared about sports or school
Two important matters
Then he would spend a lifetime
Studying or striking out batters
Yes, I care about sports and school
But also faith, service, music, and kin
Pity the poor fool who cares for one thing
For he is indeed like the one sided mountain
so our homework is conjunctive adverb worksheet, tall tales brainstorm, and start to read through the state report packets.
Abigail
On the tall tales sheet it says hero's special power can it be like he can fly or be invisible?
Abigail
Abbie, Yes
Also will some one please give me some examples of conjunctive adverbs other than on the sheet...
Susie ate to much for dinner;therefore, she felt sick
robert thats a great poem!
For our free choice poem can we do a famous group of singers (e.g. Jonas Brothers) if they influence you?
Abigail
abbie,
anything that means a lot to you will work
robert
a few more please...
other than therefore, please answer ASAP or PDQ
http://www.learnenglishfeelgood.com/ell-conjunctive-adverbs-test1.html
use that link sarah
THanks Mr. B
Nice poem Robert. Defeintly like the beginning.
In poems, is a line limited to a certain amount of words and can it be a question?
Ex: Little wooden trees, what would I be without you?
Would that work?
What does the phrases part of the tall tales worksheet mean?
Mary Grace- There is no limit to the amount of words to a line.
~Forrester
Phrases like
The biggest
The tallest
The meanest
Ok.
How many poems do we need to have memorized?
Forrester if you're talking about the last box that says tall tell phrases or something like tht then you dont have to fill it in mr b said we'd talk bout it tom.
2
Mary Grace- two, your group one and your free choice one.
and mary grace you can ask questions like your example for the poem
forrester i thought he said we could chose but he perfer we do the free choice one and something else
I think it's our one we write and one out of our booklet... just wanted to confirm
-M.G.
so basically the one do fri. and any other one?
To clarify, we don't have to start the rough- draft of our tall tale thing yet.
~Juliana
no except the worksheet he gave us for homework
How many poems are we presenting at the poetry party? Are we presenting our Northeast, inspire poem, and one out of our poetry booklets?
please answer ASAP or PDQ
ASAP
Two poems
2 2 to memorize which i think can be any and the one from yopur group
sory i ment to say 2 not 2 2
Is my free choice poem okay. (If it's bad that's okay)
Senses
By:Juliana Vorhoff
A crowd full of city walkers
I can see
Soothing rosemary from my mom's garden
I can smell
Fresh and zesty taste of key lime pie
I can taste
The spunky music that I dance along to
I can hear
Fuzzy, soft blankets scattered across my bed
I can feel
See, smell, taste, hear, and feel
My teacher attentively teaches us
I can see
Perfume blasted up my nostrils
I can smell
The minty freshness of toothpaste
I can taste
The incessant purr from my kitten
I can hear
Slick keys as I continue to type
I can feel
Senses are all I need
Juliana,
That is good.
Abigail
Is mine okay?
The Big Skyscraper
By Abigail Wedding
The Wedding family is like a skyscraper
With a muscle high foundation
Crafted with love, care, and education
Everlasting
The elevator travels from ground level
Guiding family to all the heights
Though sometimes it may seem its not there
The elevator is always by family’s side
The lobby welcomes newcomers
Spectacular scenery scattered about
Feeling the warmth
At home
Windows offer never-ending sight
But the skyscraper protects family
Steel, concrete, and glass provide structure
Family means family
I don't want to write this poem
I'm sitting in a chair
Waiting for my brother
I've got to write a poem
Oh no, not another
I can't think of anything topical
'cause I want to be somewhere tropical
I'm getting really bored
I'd rather be jousting with a sword
When will this ever end
I'd rather be playing with a friend
45 minutes to go
I'd rather be watching a show
The clock is slowly ticking
I want an icecream to be licking
I'm getting really tired
I wish this place is wired
I want to get out
I'd rather loudly shout
The only thing to do is write
I'd rather fly a kite
I wish i had somthing to eat
I wish someone was rubbing my feet
This room is very small
I'd even rather be shopping at the mall
If only my brother were done
I could go outside and have some fun
If only I didn't have to write this poem
Oh well, I guess I'll write it when I get home
this is my free choice poem. Is there anything
wrong with it? -alex
does any body now what New York nickname or phrase is? not the city the state.
Abigail
Abigail,
A nickname is "Empire State" to recognize its vast wealth and variety of resources.
BTW i got that from http://www.50states.com/bio/nickname4.htm
~ CAROLINE MACKEY :)
Thanks caroline!!!! That was helpful!!!!
Abigail
Your welcome!! :)
~CAROLINE MACKEY :)
or the big apple for nyc
I like your poem Alex. Very good, very funny
I can't WRITE funny poetry. It's a curse I have......
Well poems dont HAVE to be funny mines not what lesson are we doing for vocab?
Lesson 6.
Mine's not funny either.
Little wooden trees, what would I be without you? Quite alone I would say but that is how I feel some days
Ivory branches held tall and high
Back pressed above all that towers seen eye to eye
Serenity fills their branches
Peace is drawn here like a rolling fog cloud
No siren sounds here to wake the trees
This gift from Mother Nature
A black and white world rushing by
The crushing close of thoughts twisting and turning
But then… unexpectedly… they flash away
A quiet brook trickles into my thoughts and they have fled away
I am a pirate! A witch! A cat
No one can defeat me when I am all of that!
I trip! I slide! I slip
Into the sturdy arms of a branch that holds me quick
From the hustle and bustle of every day life
This is the place I come with my feelings to pour out to the sky
You could miss it in the blink of an eye
Like a light in a room full of darkness, I come here with no rules to abide
what's the definition of biome
juliana
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/biome
This tells you
thank you
juliana
yea i cant do funny poetry either
mary grace i really like your poem great job!!!
for the species you made up article on the science newspaper, can you put the classification and has anybody else done it
RyAn S.
Thanks!
ok
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