Welcome Back Poem

Happy New YearAs the world celebratesWith fireworks and cakesI'm standing here aloneFar away from homeWith nothing but a suitcase and memories

As the stars surround me like waterI raise my hands in full surrenderTo God, my RedeemerLord, this year is far from ordinaryI've never seen such extraordinaryPeople, places and thingsAmazing human beingsSearching for purpose, just

like me.

Looking around, I wonderSince a year is like clashing thunderBooming suddenlyThen vanishing instantlyWhy waste time uselessly?The old year came and wentI hope your time was wisely spentOn helping others, working hardSo that many people may regardYour lifetime as truly greatAnd not just because of fateSo learn this lesson, but not from me!

Try it yourself and you will seeMaking a difference starts with one stepWith one foot, then the next

So walk right now, into the lightAnd find yourself shining brightDon't worry what people thinkBecause right now you're on the brinkOf showing others what is trueHappy New Year, from me to you.

L.A. Resolutions

What are some of your L.A. Resolutions for 2015?

Work habits Independent learning habits Group work Organization Reading skills Writing skills

3 SMART GOALS

Specific Measurable Achievable/ Reasonable Timed

1. ACADEMIC

2. BEHAVIORAL or SOCIAL

3. PERSONAL

Explanatory Paragraphs

PowerPoint on writing paragraphs

Using the explanatory paragraph model explain your 2015 Smart Resolutions

Use planning page to gather ideas

PARAGRAPH

A paragraph is a group of sentences that develops a main idea.

The beginning of a paragraph signals that a main idea will be introduced.

Parts of a Paragraph

MAIN IDEA: is clearly expressed in the topic sentence, which can appear anywhere in the paragraph.

Supporting Sentence: explain the main idea of a paragraph. They develop the idea with logically related details, facts, reasons, and examples.

Closing Sentence: reinforces or supports the main idea.

Explanatory Paragraphs

Explain a circumstance, event or experience.

They answer some or all of these questions:

1. Who?

2. When?

3. Where?

4. What?

5. Why?

6. How?

To make an explanation clear, use comparison and contrast, or cause-and-effect relationships.

Helpful Hints for Writing Explanatory Paragraphs

1. Clearly state the topic that needs explanation.

2. Support your topic sentence with detailed information.

3. Research can help to make your explanation accurate and complete.

Burp:Brainstorming possible goals Academic goals

Social goals/Behavioural goals

Personal goals

Learn to work more independently as a learner- A/SB

Use technology for academic purposes ALL the time- NOT to play games- A

Listen to instructions carefully and ask if I don’t understand- S/B

Be more organized- at home, at school, in class, locker- A/SB/P

Hand my work in ON TIME in ALL of my classes- A/SB/P

Help out around the house without being asked SB/P

Spend less time on my devices and more time interacting with people face-to-face-SB/P

Read more books A/P

Be on time- for everything in life, class, etc. A/SB/P

Choose top goal and make into a SMART Goal 1. Academic Goal: Learn to work more independently as a learner

S: Trying each task on my own using the resources I have been given. If I do not understand something, I will clarify with my teacher and then continue to try on my own to the best of my ability.

M: I can measure this by completing all of the following work in class this month independently.

A/R: yes it is achievable and reasonable

Timed: I will complete this and continue to do this by the end of January until June.

Final goal sounds like this:

I will learn to work independently as a learner by trying each task on my own using the resources I have been given. If I do not understand something, I will clarify with my teacher and then continue to try on my own to the best of my ability. I will measure this by how well I can complete work in class independently by the end of January and continue this until the end of the year.

Brainstorm- Organize your explanatory paragraph

Explain the smart goal and how it will help you to achieve success:

Then answer some or all of these questions:

Who? Myself

When? …

Where? …

What? (SMART GOAL)

Why? To help achieve success in…. ?

How? (Remember the details from your SMART goal)

To make an explanation clear, use cause-and-effect relationships.

Brainstorm- Organize your paragraph continued

MAIN IDEA: talk about why it is important to have goals:

“In order to achieve success, one needs to have a clear idea on how to get there- a plan…”

Supporting Sentence: explain the main idea of a paragraph. They develop the idea with logically related details, facts, reasons, and examples.

“An example of a goal that I believe is important for me to be successful is to learn to work independently. The reason I chose this goal was… I am going to measure this goal by… it is a reasonable and achievable goal because…. I can achieve this goal by… date.”

Closing Sentence: reinforces or supports the main idea.

“Having a clear idea on how to set SMART goals can help me to recognize my strengths and areas that I need to work on. By monitoring progress, and accomplishing my goal of being a more independent learner, I hope to achieve more success in school and beyond. “

Ugly Copy, Good Copy

Use the planning and brainstorming page to create your first draft or ugly copy.

Edit your ugly copy for spelling, mechanics, grammar, etc.

Write your good copy.

PoetryGrade 7A

Figures of Speech

Alliteration

Hyperbole (exaggeration)

Onomatopoeia/Imitative Harmony (Onomatopoeia)

Metaphor

Personification

Simile

The Rabbit

Sightlines pg. 55

Pre-reading:

• Discuss Points of View (see Short Story notes – Yellow)

• Freewriting: Write about a story of a funny moment with animals or pets.

• Video – America’s Funniest Videos (animals)

The Rabbit

Find examples of Figurative Language from “The Rabbit” – see handout

POETRY NOTES

POETRY is…

a type of literature that expresses

ideas and feelings, or tells a story in a

specific form (usually using lines and stanzas)

POETIC FORM FORM - the

appearance of the words on the page

LINE - a group of words together on one line of the poem

STANZA - a group of lines arranged together

A word is dead

When it is said,

Some say.

I say it just

Begins to live

That day.

- Emily Dickinson

POETIC SOUND EFFECTS

RHYTHM

The beat created by the sounds of the

words in a poem. Rhythm can be

created by using, meter, rhymes, alliteration, and

refrain.

RHYMESWords sound alike because they

share the same ending vowel and consonant sounds. A word always rhymes with itself.

LAMP STAMP

Share the short “a” vowel sound Share the combined “mp” consonant sound

RHYME SCHEME

a pattern of rhyming words or sounds (usually end rhyme, but not always).

Use the letters of the alphabet to represent sounds to be able to visually “see” the pattern.

(See next slide for an example.)

SAMPLE RHYME SCHEME

A mighty creature is the germ, Though smaller than the

pachyderm. His customary dwelling place

Is deep within the human race. His childish pride he often pleases By giving people strange diseases.

Do you, my poppet, feel infirm? You probably contain a germ.

-“The Germ” by Ogden Nash

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END RHYME A word at the end of one line rhymes with a word at the end of

another line

Hector the Collector

Collected bits of string.

Collected dolls with broken heads

And rusty bells that would not ring.

-”Hector the Collector” by Shel Silverstein

ABCB

INTERNAL RHYME A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line.

Ah, distinctly I remember, it was in the bleak December

- “The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe

NEAR RHYME Also known as imperfect or “close enough” rhyme. The words

share EITHER the same vowel or consonant sound BUT NOT BOTH

ROSE

LOSE

Different vowel sounds (long “o” and “oo” sound)

Share the same consonant sound (“s”)

FIGURATIVELANGUAGE

ALLITERATION Consonant sounds repeated at the beginnings of words

If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,

how many pickled peppers did Peter Piper pick?

ANALOGY Comparison of two or more unlike things in order to show a

similarity in their characteristics

Two main types:

Simile

Metaphor

SIMILE Comparison of two unlike things using “like” or “as”

Friends are like chocolate cake, you can never have too many.Chocolate cake is like heaven -

always amazing you with each taste or feeling.Chocolate cake is like life

with so many different pieces.Chocolate cake is like happiness,you can never get enough of it.

- “Chocolate Cake” by Anonymous

METAPHOR Comparison of two unlike things where one word is used to

designate the other (one is the other)

A spider is a black dark midnight sky.Its web is a Ferris wheel.

It has a fat moon body and legs of dangling string.

Its eyes are like little match ends.

- “Spider” by Anonymous

EXTENDED METAPHOR

Continues for several lines or possibly the entire length of a work

The fog comeson little cat feet.It sits looking

over the harbor and cityon silent haunches

and then, moves on.

- “Fog” by Carl Sandburg

IMAGERY Language that provides a sensory experience using sight, sound,

smell, touch, taste

Soft upon my eyelashesTurning my cheeks to pink

Softly falling, fallingNot a sound in the air

Delicately designed in snowFading away at my touch

Leaving only a glistening dropAnd its memory

- “Crystal Cascades” by Mary Fumento

HYPERBOLE An intentional exaggeration or overstatement, often used for

emphasis

Here once the embattled farmers stoodAnd fired the shot heard round the

world

-from "The Concord Hymn" by Ralph Waldo Emerson

LITOTE Intentional understatement, used for

humor or irony (Example- naming a slow moving person “Speedy”)

ONOMATOPOEIA Words that imitate the sound that they are naming

Tlot-tlot; tlot-tlot! Had they heard it? The horse-hoofs ringing clear;

Tlot-tlot, tlot-tlot, in the distance?Were they deaf that they did not

hear?

- from “The Highwayman” by Alfred Noyes

PERSONIFICATION A nonliving thing given human of

life-like qualities

Hey diddle, Diddle,The cat and the fiddle,

The cow jumped over the moon;The little dog laughed

To see such sport,And the dish ran away with the spoon.

-from “The Cat & the Fiddle” by Mother Goose

SYMBOLISM The use of a word or object which

represents a deeper meaning than the words themselves

It can be a material object or a written sign used to represent something invisible.

I shall be telling this with a sighSomewhere ages and ages hence:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference.

-from “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost

SOME TYPES OF POETRY THAT WE WILL BE STUDYING

ACROSTIC POEMS The first letter of each line forms a

word or phrase (vertically). An acrostic poem can describe the subject or even tell a brief story about it.

After an extensive winterPretty tulipsRise from the onceIcy ground bringing fresh signs of Life.

-”April” by Anonymous

LIMERICK A five line poem with rhymes in line 1,

2, and 5, and then another rhyme in lines 3 and 4

What is a limerick, Mother?

It's a form of verse, said Brother

In which lines one and two

Rhyme with five when it's through

And three and four rhyme with each other.

- untitled and author unknown

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