Poetry Parties

Poetry Parties will take place on Monday morning. These will be a celebration of language, music, and literature. I expect passionate performances and powerful deliveries from ALL of you.  Each of you will have to come prepared to deliver TWO performances.  You will also need to turn in your completed, decorated poetry books containing at least 8 of the 9 poems we have done in class from the list below. You may choose NOT to include any one poem from the list below: (you are welcome to include all 9 if you decide)

Personal Poem - Describing an emotion

Narrative Poem -  Relating the world event

Inside/Outside Poem - The Fruit

Inside/Outside Poem - About yourself.

Published Poem - The poem you recited in class

Midwest Group Perform

Road Less Taken -Interpretation

Beatles song - Interpretation

Free Choice - Show your creativity here!

Side note. I am so proud to observe your brilliant creativity with respect to the regions inquiry based assignment. A perfect example was what Lilly said in class this morning,

"Mr Buxton, can I make my timeline the Brooklyn Bridge? I also want to use different cars (forms of transport) to represent the historical events that occured over time in my region."

Bravo Lilly! How will the rest of  you, 'think out of the box?'

Impressive 'elevator pitches' today  from the Buxton class for your Animoto movies. I am excited to see your finished versions next week.

Thinking Out of the Box?

Are you making sure you are being creative with your ideas for the Regions project and thinking 'out of the box?

Recap. Joint the 9 dots with four lines without taking your pen off the paper.

Regions Research

Use the appropriate videos below to collect further facts on your regions. I have also attached some links for online reserach too. The stronger your research, the easier your written portion becomes.

The West

The Southwest

The Northeast

Week 11 Homework

Click the link above for your H/W sheet this week

For this Friday's Figurative Language Test you should be able to understand, identify, and recreate these types of figurative language:

Simile Metaphor Personification Repetition Alliteration Hyperbole Onomatopoeia

Ignore any out  of date links or terminology that we haven't covered

Do this practice test first. Aim to score 27/29. (ignore the first question) If you can do that, you are fine for the test. Spend time working through the exercises below then retake the practice test Wed. night. Did your score improve?

http://www.quia.com/quiz/449371.html?AP_rand=161924344

EXERCISES AND PRACTICE

Simile

http://school.discoveryeducation.com/quizzes26/gumbie7/PoetryPieces.html

http://library.thinkquest.org/J0112392/similepractice.html
http://www.worsleyschool.net/socialarts/simile/page2.html
http://www.kidsonthenet.org.uk/dragonsville/simile1.htm

Personification Practice
http://library.thinkquest.org/J0112392/personificationpractice.html

Onomatopoeia
http://www.tolearnenglish.com/exercises/exercise-english-2/exercise-english-69167.php

Metaphor
http://library.thinkquest.org/J0112392/metaphorpractice.html
http://www.quia.com/quiz/234882.html 
http://www.kidsonthenet.org.uk/dragonsville/metaphor1.htm

Mixture
http://www.berghuis.co.nz/abiator/lang/lmatch/sm1.htm
http://www.berghuis.co.nz/abiator/lang/lmatch/sm3.htm
 http://www.berghuis.co.nz/abiator/rdg/onomatopoeiahelp.html (do x3 links at the bottom of the page
Examples of Figurative Language
http://www.beavton.k12.or.us/jacob_wismer/leahy/2006/flb/flb.htm 
http://www.quia.com/rr/397508.html 

This activity is a fun game to play.
http://www.newton.k12.ks.us/tech/fling3.html

Zooburst - Finished Products

Don't forget to practice the online exercises on your subjects and predicates for tomorrow's test. Some of you still seem shaky on this topic

Enjoy some zooburst from today's presentations: