Oct. 15 - 18: Poetry

Open Book Poetry Test on Fri. Oct. 18 (p. 117-251 The Poet's Craft).

Fri. Oct. 18
- Open book poetry test (43).
- Finish your poetry assignments: Louis Riel questions and homophone poem.
A Poem about hands:



- AK47 Team Poetry: This is a brilliant example of personification/extended metaphor in a poem presented at an event in Ottawa in 2009.




Tues Oct. 15 -  Thurs. Oct. 17 
It's/Its/You're/Your Quiz: Login to Socrative and enter 52231
Blk. A - Class 2 of 4 on Poetry Blogging (see samples below)
Blk. D - Class 4 of 4 on Poetry Blogging
- Sign into your blog at Blogger.com
- Work on poetry assignment #2 - Class 4 activity.  See an assignment example below:
***Email completed blog with your full name and block in subject line.
***Paste the link to your blog in the body of the email.
- When finished, review pages 117 - 251 of The Poet's Craft textbook in preparation for the open-book poetry test on Friday, Oct. 18.
- If you finish early, help the United Nations World Food Program feed the world by playing Free Rice.

Nature and Invention

Instructions for Drawing:
- Sign into Google Docs. Select Create New. Select Drawing.
- Click Insert. Select Text box (type or paste poem into text box)
- Add other artistic elements. When finished, click on File. Select Publish to the Web.
- Copy the Embed Code. Paste the code into your blog's Edit HTML view (at the bottom).
- Change the dimensions near the end of the code to w=450 h=400 so it will fit your blog.
- Click Publish Post on your blog. See the sample below: