Prompts

1. Craft a prompt that you can use to lead the class in a warm-up writing prompt. It should be creative and reflective of something you are interested in writing. You can use quotes, photos, music, physical movement, anything that will elicit at least a 1/2 page written response from your classmates.

You will be given as assigned date to present. Possible sites for writing prompt ideas:
http://www.writersdigest.com/WritingPrompts/
http://writingfix.com/classroom_tools/dailypromptgenerator.htm
http://www.canteach.ca/elementary/prompts.html

Playing with Poetry

Part One: Poetry Vocab
Look up and define the following words:
Rhythm
Rhyme scheme
Alliteration
Anaphora
Consonance
Assonance
You can define these on your blogs or in your notebooks.

Part Two: Playing with Poetry

1. Type out your poem on a word document.
2. Mess around with it; play with it- add lines, take out words.
3. Try to add some alliteration, assonance, consonance, anaphora, rhythm, rhyme scheme.
4. Try to incorporate the metaphor you are using in each stanza
5. Try NOT to say “ Our love is like a lion”
6. Put it on your blog.

Love is like a....

You have three tasks today:

Task One: Love Poem
1. Find a poem on the internet or, oh my goodness, in a book from the library about love. This should not be a song.
2. This poem needs to have some type of metaphor in it.
3. Paste it onto your blog and cite the author and source of the poem. I have provided internet resources below.
4. Comment on what you believe the theme of the poem is. What is the author saying about love?
5. Explain how the author uses metaphor (or simile) to express the theme of the piece.
6. Print out the poem. You will be sharing it with the class.

Sites for poems:
http://www.poetry.com/lovepoems/lovepoems.asp
http://www.loc.gov/poetry/180/
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/
http://www.bartleby.com/113/ (This site focuses on Emily Dickinson)
If you know the author you are interested in, then http://www.poemhunter.com/langston-hughes/ is a good site to visit. Otherwise skip this one.

Task Two: Love Metaphor
Create your own metaphor about love. Be sure you explain it thoroughly. Saying "love is like a snake" is not detailed enough. Explin how, why, when, and where "love is like a snake."
BE CREATIVE!! Try to connect love to some really unexpected things.

Task Three: Blog Entry
Complete a blog entry on the topic of your choice. Label this October 7th Blog. If you do not finish this in class, it is homework. I will be checking blogs this week beginning tomorrow. I will be checking for the following:

1. The poetry critique
2. Today's assignment