Poetry Practice Test #1:Poetry Practice Test #2:
In Class Today:
Naomi Shihab Nye - "One Boy Told Me"Further proof that toddlers are ingenious! In Class Today:
Poem of the Day
Boy at the Window - Richard Wilbur Seeing the snowman standing all alone In the dusk and cold is more than he can bear. The small boy weeps to hear the wind prepare A night of gnashings and enormous moan. His tearful sight can hardly reach to where The pale-faced figure with bitumen eyes Returns him such a god-forsaken stare As outcast Adam gave Paradise. The man of snow is, nonetheless, content, Having no wish to go inside and die. Still, he is moved to see the youngster cry. Though frozen water is his element, He melts enough to drop from on soft eye A trickle of the purest rain, a tear For the child at the bright pane surrounded by Such warmth, such light, such love, and so much fear. In Class Today:
Introduction to Poetry - Click "Play"Letter Poems I really enjoyed your poetry warm ups. I think "Q" was probably the hardest to pronounce, and therefore, the funniest! ICTW Planning Day Tomorrow (Thursday) you will receive your Ender's Game ICTW prompt along with planning materials. These materials may NOT leave my classroom. You will get them back Friday to write your essay. Tonight's Homework
Tutorials Tutorials are tomorrow and Friday after school from 2:50pm to 3:50pm. REmember, tutorials must be booked in remind in advance, and you must come with a specific goal ("just writing" is too general). The Props assist the House Until the House is built And then the Props withdraw And adequate, erect, The House support itself And cease to recollect The Auger and the Carpenter-- Just such a retrospect Hath the perfected Life-- A past of Plank and Nail And slowness—then the Scaffolds drop Affirming it a Soul. "The Props assist the House" by Emily Dickinson
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