Friday, February 11, 2011

Next time:  February 15 -- Poetry and Chocolate --  Bring a poem to share, and if you wish bring chocolate or another treat to share. 







Bell-Ringer:  Respond in your composition book to the picture prompt.  If you are absent, here is the optical illusion.  You need to look at it right side up and upside down.

http://thedabbler.co.uk/2010/12/gustave-verbeek-%E2%80%93-the-upside-down-cartoonist/

See the above website for a whole comic strip of topsy-turvy pictures that tell a story.

More Poetry -- meter and rhyme -- Limericks
Student worksheet for your assignment: Limericks.doc



Some Computer time as needed.

Computer Lab -- Finding poems and. . . . .

• Make sure you have at least three poems on your Finding Poetry page -- with the poet  and source of each.  

• Prepare your poem to share on the 15th.

• Make specific comments on at least eight  students' Finding Poetry pages. 

• Type two or three limericks on your own Poetry Page -- with the I Am Poem -- (not on Finding Poetry). 

  Looking for Poetry on the Internet 

Go to our class wiki at
http://cavewriting2011b3.pbworks.com
or
http://cavewriting2011b4.pbworks.com