Homework

Jamie Morrow
February 8-12

Monday
DOL 24
Finish group activity from Friday
Identifying personification in poems
Work on original poems
Comma WS
HW: Spelling pg. 124 and one option due on Thursday; Original poems due 
Friday (counts as test grade); comma quiz tomorrow; get agenda signed

Tuesday
DOL
Identifying personification in video clips 
Comma review
Comma quiz
HW: Spelling pg. 124 and one option due on Thursday; Original poems due 
Friday (counts as test grade); get agenda signed

Wednesday
DOL
Quotation marks notes
Poetry comprehension WS
HW: Spelling pg. 124 and one option due on Thursday; Original poems due 
Friday (counts as test grade); get agenda signed

Thursday
DOL
Turn in Sp. HW
Quotation marks WS
Poetry terms review
Turn in spelling HW
HW: Study for poetry test

Friday
Journal
Adverb, comma, quotation marks review
Poetry unit test


Original Poems Assignment

	Write 2 original poems
	These CANNOT be any poem(s) you have written this year or in previous 
years.
	They cannot be “I am” or Acrostic poems
	You must write a rough draft for both poems AND turn them in with 
your final copy.
	The final copy can be typed but the rough draft can’t be typed…it 
must be handwritten.
	The final must be written on computer paper or construction paper if 
not typed. (If you need computer paper or construction paper, ASK ME!  I have 
plenty.)
	Each poem will be a test grade 
	Poems due February 12th 

Requirements:
	Both poems must be AT LEAST 8 lines and have at least 2 stanzas.

	Both poems must be on an appropriate topic for school.  They can be 
funny, serious, happy, romantic, sad, etc.
 
	Both poems must have a title

	Both poems must have AT LEAST one poetic element (alliteration, 
personification, simile, metaphor, onomatopoeia, or hyperbole)

	Both poems must have some kind of rhyme pattern

	Illustrate or decorate the final copies


Spelling Lesson 20
February 8-12

1.	extract
2.	extra
3.	extreme
4.	extent
5.	exterior
6.	external
7.	extinguish
8.	exterminate
9.	extravagant
10.	expect
11.	expense
12.	experiment
13.	experience
14.	expiration
15.	expert
16.	expedition
17.	expression
18.	explode

HW: Do page 124 and complete one option—due Thursday

Options:
-write your words 5 times each
-make a crossword with at least 12 of your words.
-choose at least 12 words and draw a picture to go along with each one (label 
the picture with the spelling word)
-write analogies using at least 10 spelling words (ex: extract: take out :: 
examine : look closely) *do NOT use my example*
- make 12 of your words by cutting out letters (or entire words) in a 
newspaper or magazine and gluing them onto notebook or computer paper

****You may do one extra option for a 5 point pass to be used on any 
assignment






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