11/6/09

English 1 - Friday, November 6

Announcements
17 Journals are due today for all students in school. For those absent due to the SEPTA strike, you may turn them in on Monday, 11/9. If the strike continues beyond Tuesday, 11/10, I will count the journals as a second marking report grade.


Today's Agenda
1. Check and review homework (Fixing Run-on Sentences worksheet)


2. Haikus - poems that present a vivid picture and the poet's impression, sometimes with suggestions of spiritual insight. The traditional haiku is three lines long: the first line is five syllables, the second line is seven syllables, and the third line is five syllables.

Examples:

quiet, empty streets
attendance in school is sparse
SEPTA strike end soon

faces are a blur
houses, streets and stops fly by
music pounds my ears

soft murmur downstairs
discordant voices increase
and chaos erupts

Write one haiku that incorporate images of your daily life. Follow the 5-7-5 syllable pattern.

3. Vocabulary Haikus
Write a 5-7-5 haiku for a vocabulary word. Your haiku should help the reader understand what the word means.

inadvertantly
unintentional mistake
not planned or thought out


the concert crowd was
scattered in their seats, few and
far between, bare, sparse

1 comment:

  1. home, watching maury
    people on here are crazy
    i'm glad that aint me!
    -----------------------------------------------
    brute or brutally
    this thing was such a huge beast
    it was so scary!

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