Your last poem - due Monday - FREE VERSE - write your best poem about a topic you feeling strongly about OR a key event in your life.

ALL CLASSES: Sentence Fluency Test - Next MON - Spend 5 mins each night doing some of these exercises

Sentence Fluency: Test Practice Exercises -

http://www.csus.edu/owl/index/sent/clause_quiz.htm

http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/language_arts/goforgold/content_builder/dswmedia/g4c26/nadia.htm

http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/sensort/index_pre.html

http://itech.pjc.edu/writinglab/senpat.htm types of sentences

http://eslbee.com/cgi-bin/quiztest.cgi?helenkeller

http://webschool.wash.k12.ut.us/language/lessons/compoundsentences.html

http://www.quia.com/pop/37751.html

http://www.quia.com/quiz/242899.html?AP_rand=1383585617

http://www.quia.com/quiz/299540.html (ignore question 13 and 16)

http://www.quia.com/rr/126726.html

Some of the questions on this exercise, we have not covered yet...but we will. Try it for fun!

http://www.quia.com/quiz/815621.html?AP_rand=60951870

TEST PRACTICE: ASK the Teacher sheet

Sonnets - Due  in Seesaw tomorrow THURSDAY

Poetry Top 10 - Sample

Due - End of Class Friday - You will be given class time each day to work on this. The audience for this video is a parent. This will be a summative grade and also count as your grammar and reflection summative grade.

Guidelines

List in order the top 10 ways you have grown as a reader or writer of poetry

Provide EVIDENCE from your own work or a poem you found to support each slide. (Cannot copy teacher’s class examples)

Write a script for each slide that uses strong sentence fluency (script turned into Seesaw

Due: End of class Fri (G/H - Monday)

POscars take place next Tuesday - look at categories below - Which award will you win?

Metric Verse and Sonnets

Grammar Lesson

H/W - Work on the first draft of your sonnet

Lesson Review 

Line of Poetry (Find three examples)	Rhythm and Meter
But, soft! /what light /through yon/der win/dow breaks?	Iambic pentameter

Syllablic Verse

Use this to count your syllables
http://writeahaiku.com/ counts syllables Verse

DO NOT FORGET - 12 sentences paragraph and extended metaphor poem due tomorrow! BOTH turned into Seesaw

G/H - You will do your 12 sentences on Monday.

Do this link - Sentence Fluency Practice https://www.quia.com/rr/126726.html

Due FRIDAY  C/D and E/F only

1) Write out a 12 sentence review of the Hunger Games or any other movie

You must write from the perspective of:

• a critique who loves the movie
• a critique who hates the movie
• Katniss Everdeen
• President Snow

2) You may only use simple, compound sentences and complex sentences  + tools

e.g. Begin your piece now. Your second sentence must be compound, and your third sentence must be complex. If you follow this pattern, you will probably get an ‘A.’ You should have started by now. I need to know the difference between the sentences, so color code each one. You will become a sentence genius because you know how to follow instructions