Please find your assigned seat with a pencil and have your rough draft for your I Am poem out and ready. Take a few moments to put the finishing touches on the poem. Remember to include at least ONE literary device. - Mystery Motivators - how do we make this better or more fair?
- Final draft of I Am poem
Simile: comparing two unlike things using like or as
She is as clever as a fox.
- Metaphor: A word or phrase that is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.
- He is a walking dictionary.
- Onomatopoeia: A word that makes the sound it represents
- Splat!
- Alliteration - Using the same beginning consonant sound in a line of verse
- Peter Piper picked a pack of pickled peppers.
- Share out - challenge by choice
Homework:
- Final Draft of I Am poem
- Elmore Permission Slips
- Have an independent reading book
- Summer Photo for Ms. Kelly's TA
Humanities Extension:
Stars. Stargazing one evening you watch as a bright star disappears. What happened? Was it really a star? Tell the story either from your perspective -- as a viewer -- or the perspective of the star or whatever it was that disappeared.
