Monday, April 14, 2014

Ms. Dorsey at the Grand Canyon -- Spring Break 2014

1.  Prompt:  Write something about your Spring Break. This can be nonfiction or fiction.
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2.  Writing diamontes: 
What is a diamonte?

http://cuip.uchicago.edu/~adarice/cwsite/poems/diamonte.htm

List as many opposites as you can.

Opposites

Let's look again at the structure of a diamonte:

http://kidsnetsoft.com/html/poem2.html

http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/diamante/

Your diamonte can move between opposites, or it can move between synonyms.

List as many synonyms as you can.

Now, write your diamonte, using the pattern shown on the screen.

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3. Listening to Poems and the story from 

Hormone Jungle: Coming of Age in Middle School