Thursday, April 30, 2015

IMPORTANT: 
You need to finish your books ASAP, so we can deliver them to the children!
As of May 1 there are 7 of you who have not yet finished. 



1. Scribble:  Misty   
      Respond to a poem from The Hormone Jungle: Coming of Age in Middle School.

Next Time:   Sadie F. 


2. Pick a poem for your pocket!  

3. Magnetic Poetry


4. Concrete Poetry -- Designing It
Next week we will go outside and put our concrete poetry on the concrete! 

Concrete Poetry

Examples of Concrete Poetry: 

The Mouse's Tale

Concrete Poetry -- Tree

Face It -- Concrete Poetry

Let The Biter Beware -- Concrete Poetry

http://www.pinterest.com/mchoof/concrete-poems/

http://www.poetry4kids.com/blog/news/how-to-write-a-concrete-poem/


Quotes about Poetry:
A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.
Robert Frost

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
Robert Frost

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.
Khalil Gibran

I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything.
Steven Wright

The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
Gilbert K. Chesterton 

 "Poetry is eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone."-Lawrence Ferlinghetti


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