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Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Yellow class Poetry example

http://www.teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=98531&title=Poetry_Video

Here's a poem about basketball, written by a young person. Pay attention to the events that he's writting about, and how he decribes the moves, the emotions, the sounds. What do you think of his poem? How does this help you get a better idea for your poems?

The page we viewed in class (the one with the everyday people reading their favorite poem) can be found at http://www.favoritepoem.org/videos.html

Feel free to comment on any of those here, make sure you identify which poem you're talking about (put the title in "quotes ").

Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Red Kayak (drawing conclusions)

Why do you think Digger and J.T. are ignoring Brady after his heroic rescue?
If you were in Brady's shoes, how would you deal with this?