Poetry Friday

I had a lot of fun doing poetry friday... we did a lot of cool things with poems like taking candy hearts and taking a valentines poem and writing a word on each candy heart and making into a Concrete poem. We also did a youtube video about the book "Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson".
That was fun, we wrote on big cards a word or saying from the poem that we wrote as a class, the poem is the spoken words on the video. I liked doing that project. We did a poem in your pocket where we found a poem that we liked and wrote it on a piece of paper and decorated the paper and made it pretty..

This Year!!!!

This year i learned a lot.. to tell you the truth I did not know the story about romeo and juliet... so I learned all about that and I learned how to blog haha. I liked the fact that we did a lot of fun exiting activities instead of just sitting down and writing on paper.I also learned that Mrs.Deraps has a better day when she has her Dunkin Donuts =)..... I love the SSR(Silent Sustained Reading) it got me to want to read more and not just act like i reading lol( not that i actually did that shhhh..) I liked how we would read the required books together and then we would have conversations about them and make sure that we all understood it. Our English class id like one big happy family. We help each other and make sure we all know what we are suppost to be doing(this helps the kids that don't pay attention) I hope nxt year is just like this year but different ha I learned how to write better and to read more ha ill be doing a lot of reading this summer!!!

Crank by Ellen Hopkins

Crank by Ellen Hopkins
This book is about a girl named Kristina. She is a healthy and smart girl. She lives with her mom. Then she goes to visit her dad,while she is visiting her father she discovers the "monster". While she is on monster she finds another person within her.she falls in love with a boy and she finds out he has another girl but they still love eachother, then Kristina had to go back to her moms....i really liked this book because it tought me a lot about crank.... i also love that there are more books by ellen that are like this one.This book is recommended for teens i think that boys and girls would like this book. There are 544 page, but it deff is a quick read, the pages are not ful they are written in poem like forms.

acrostic elegy

in class we did acrostic elegy poems and they had to be something that that was lost in juliet like love or romance and the ones i did are the ones on this blog.... i did truelove because the love is still there but i cant be shown.... and i also did togetherforever because they togetherforever..... they love eachother and killed them selfs for eachother.

Elizabethan Women

I am learning about William Shakespear. Here are some interesting facts about the time period that he lived in, and the time period that Elizabethan Women lived.
1.Some females that came from a noble or wealthy family sometimes had the right to get an Education,if they were lucky enough to get the education then you would start getting tutored at the age 5 or even younger.
2. Women that were not wealthy or nobility did not get an education from school, woman were ment to learn how to govern a household,and to to be a housewife. All the skills that the woman learned were ones on how to raise children and to cook and to clean ect.....
3. When woman get married the are responsible to bring(Dowry)like dishes and quilts or money that they bring into the marriage.
4.Woman were expected to obey all the men that are in their family including the fathers, brothers, uncles, ect....

1930's

url:http://history1900s.about.com/library/photos/blygd21.htm

Who: Female her name is Gentle she is 10.
When: It is during the summer time. She is injured and watching her younger sister.
Where: On the side of the road, heading to California.
What: She is standing on crotched beside her broken down truck waiting for help to come. She is thinking bout if she will get to California safely.
How: her house got covered in sand and the lost there farm. she is not really sure she is just trying.
Why: she keeps going so she can get better and make sure her family makes it ok. To make it safely to California and start over.

Poetry friday

Today we went and looked on this site:
http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/20553
hen we found a line or two and wrote them on heart shaped
candies and put them in cool design called a Concrete Poem.
Then we went and took another students lines and changed them up
and made that a new concrete poem. This is the Concrete poem I did.
I found it easy to reword the other students poem. It was a little harder
to find a poem i liked. This was fun.