REMINDER: I am still missing tons of work from my students. Students may take a pic and text them or email them directly. Some of you are keeping up and asking questions and I am really enjoying the poems you are producing.
AR- Keep up on Reading!!! When you return your targets are still due... Don't procrastinate because you do have time now at home. If you finished the books you left here with...remember Overdrive is still accessible to you. You can access this from computer, ipad, or phone. Find something you enjoy.
Spelling packet this week is #24. Still Due on on FRIDAY.
OVERALL TIPS & REMINDERS: Please refrain from using words: big, pretty, nice, little,and kind in this unit. Your words need to reflect that of a sixth grader practicing to be descriptive and bodacious with words. Use the online thesaurus...expand. This will make your writing more interesting and the imagery you are trying to convey, clearer. Continue to think outside of the box and even a little weird. This should be fun.
Monday 3/23
METAPHORS: A Metaphor is a figure of speech that makes an implicit, implied, or hidden comparison between two things that are unrelated, but which share some common characteristics. In other words, a resemblance of two contradictory or different objects is made based on a single or some common characteristics. [Not using like or as]
For example: My bones are skyscrapers reaching into the sky, strong and supportive, holding me up high
In this example, bones are being compared to skyscrapers. The commom characteristics are: strong, supportive, high
Today's worksheet is METAPHOR PRACTICE---Play and extend.
Tuesday 3/24
More with Metaphors
4X4 Metaphor Poem Worksheet Pre-writing Exercise (the one with the quill and ink in the upper right hand corner of the page) This one looks a little scary. It is detailed with directions to hopefully make it easier. I am posting final examples on under the Learning Center tab on the classroom website so you can see what your goal may be. It is much easier than it looks. Let me know, though, if you have questions.
1. students are to pick one main topic that is really important to them. Everything else will be compared to it. in the final piece.
2. Following the directions carefully and so this slowly, step-by-step.
You are to do two poems. The front of your worksheet is to help you set up and create your metaphor statements for the first poem. You may reuse it for your second poem or start from scratch for the second poem.
Wednesday 3/25
COUPLETS: Let's lighten it up today. Couplets are a two-lined poem or stanza. A couplet simply means two lines that rhyme. The last word of the line must rhyme with the line that follows it. There is a rhyming dictionary under the Learning Center to help you, should you get stuck.
Example: tree, bee. pop, stop
Couplet: In the summer,under the majestic Willow tree,
Ran young James, being chased by a bee.
He ran so quickly until he heard a "pop!"
Running, running, until he had to stop.
This brief poem is made up of two stanzas, with couplets. You will do the worksheet: Writing Couplets. It has the spider on it. You will do two poems with 4 stanzas and create a title at the end. Remember to capitalize your titles.
Thursday 3/26
Personification - a figurative language technique where an object or idea is given human traits or characteristics. Example. My computer hates me. Trees dancing in the wind.
Personification Worksheet - You will be reading statements that include personification. Your job is to identify what is being personified. Then, what is the trait is it being given? 1-10.
Friday 3/27
Spelling Packet is due.
Worksheet_ No title It is the two-column chart 1-16 Matching examples to the term