Bring in books by Friday for Claremont's Book Drive. Bring books you think kids or teens or adults would enjoy reading. THANKS!
Thanks for being such a great audience for Amy and Allie today. It's not easy to present to one's peers and you really made them feel welcome. Thanks to Selena, Pharyn and Jon for reading their poems to the class.
We practiced writing 20 lines, replacing adjectives with nouns.
Instead of saying the red sky, say the Charlie Brown sky or the Boo Radley sky or the Hitler sky or the good-cop-bad-cop sky etc.
After you create twenty of them, choose one for your title.
Under that title (the title will create a mood for your poem) write a memory of something that happened to you or you witnessed on a playground. Write and write and write. When you have finished writing, you are ready to write a poem using some of the lines from your quick-write.
Now, create a typed draft of a poem. Use the sky title. Include at least two of our three sound devices (alliteration, assonance or dissonance), don't have rhymes at the end of lines, you may have rhyme within the lines or scattered throughout the poem, use nouns instead of adjectives throughout.
Example:
The Mr. Rogers Sky
She remembers summer.
Empty swings, silence like grasshopper wings
origami wings, paper wings. Summer.
No one home. No babysitter. No brother.
She remembers summer.
Grandfather's funeral.
The stink of garbage after the city strike,
no trucks swaggering in cul-de-sacs,
empty streets and houses.
Grasshoppers, brothers, prayers.
The swollen streets, empty.
Today: I collected the personal essays, the checklists, the drafts and the MLA Works Cited sheets. Good job everyone.
So much to explore.
If you have any questions about Writing 12 or English 12 Enriched / AP Literature, let me know.
