Today's Agenda
- Silent Reading
- "Your Own Brother" - Jolene Heathcoate (poem and questions posted on the class website - please print off at home if you were absent"
- Worked on adding descriptive images to your "He Said, She Said" poems
Homework:
- Complete the questions for "Your Own Brother
- Complete a 2 stanza "He Said, She Said" poem (see sample below). Note, if you feel inspired to write about a different abstract quality, you can choose something other than FUN, HOPE, or JEALOUSY.
- If you were away on Wednesday, print out the poem and questions for "The Lesson of the Moth"
Sample Poem
He said
Fun is a joyride,
a spitting competition, telling bad jokes,
laughing until our sides ache,
knowing that we all belong.
She said,
Fun is a giggle,
pink lipstick, blue nail polish,
whispering girlfriends,
a good cry at a movie,
then laughing all the way home.