Free Verse Freestyle

Bellringer: What do you feel is the biggest surprise or contradiction that we still face as a society and culture in 2014? Why?

** The above bellringer is meant to call attention to not only everything that is going on, but make you consider what we still cannot do in this day and age with everything else that we can. 

Recap: After a good discussion on the above bellringer, we read "Winter Poem" to discover the literary elements used. There are several used that we covered this week. 

We then began writing our Free Verse Freestyle, which is a free verse poem that must contain the following: 

1. One Metaphor or Simile

2. One personification

3. Alliteration

4. One onomatopoeia

5. One oxymoron

6. Tell some sort of story

        7. Be at least 10 lines. 

Nice job today and this week! I love being your teacher! Have a nice weekend! 

Z