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Haiku limerick the side racer

Haiku limerick the side racer. By: Basho, Anonymous, and Lillian Morrison . Word List A. caught [KAWT] v. stuck, trapped, or captured flee [FLEE] v. run away; escape sailor [SAY luhr ] n. person who guides a boat or works on a boat sea [SEE] n. ocean

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Haiku limerick the side racer

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  1. Haikulimerickthe side racer By: Basho, Anonymous, and Lillian Morrison

  2. Word List A • caught [KAWT] v. stuck, trapped, or captured • flee [FLEE] v. run away; escape • sailor [SAY luhr] n. person who guides a boat or works on a boat • sea [SEE] n. ocean • skimming [SKIM ing] adj. gliding; moving swiftly and lightly over a surface • splash [SPLASH] n. the sound made when a person or an object hits water

  3. Word List B • asphalt [AS fawlt] adj. made of the black cementlike substance used for the surface of playgrounds and roads • flaw [FLAW] n. break; crack • silence [SY luhns] n. complete quiet At night • sway [SWAY] v. move back and forth • swerve [SWERV] v. turn sharply and • whirring [WER ing] adj. making a whizzing or buzzing sound

  4. Exercise A Fill in each blank in the paragraph below with an appropriate word from Word List A. Use each word only once. Claire loved the cartoon about Sammy the [1] _____________________. In it, Sammy sails his boat out onto the [2] _____________________. All of a sudden, he hears a huge [3] _____________________. It is the sound of a giant whale dropping its tail into the water. Sammy tries to [4] _____________________ from the whale. For a while, he is able. He keeps his boat [5] _____________________ smoothly across the water, a few feet in front of the whale’s open mouth. After a mile or two, the whale catches up. Sammy escapes, however, when the boat gets [6] _____________________ in the whale’s mouth. Sammy jumps into the water and swims back to the beach.

  5. Vocabulary Exercises, p. 128 • 1. sailor • 2. sea • 3. splash • 4. flee • 5. skimming • 6. caught

  6. Exercise B Revise each sentence so that the underlined vocabulary word is used in a logical way. Be sure to keep the vocabulary word in your revision. Example: That’s too expensive; pick out something that costs more. That’s too expensive; pick out something that costs less. 1. Buy the mirror with a flaw in it to make sure you can see yourself clearly. 2. The asphalt pavement was soft as a pillow. 3. Stop yelling and screaming; I can’t stand the silence. 4. We built a strong, solid building out of bricks to make sure it would sway in the breeze. 5. My bike began to swerve on the dry part of the road. 6. I hate noise when I am studying, so I study next to that whirring clock.

  7. B. Sample Answers • 1. Buy a mirror without a flaw in it to make sure you can see yourself clearly. • 2. The asphalt pavement was as hard as cement. • 3. Stop yelling and screaming; I need silence. • 4. We built a strong, solid building out of bricks to make sure it would not sway in the breeze. • 5. My bike began to swerve on the wet part of the road. • 6. I hate noise when I am studying, so I study far away from that whirring clock.

  8. Pg 576 • What is a haiku, Limerick, and concrete poem?

  9. The poems • Listen to the poems • Read each poem carefully and identify its characteristics.

  10. Exercise pg-27 • Complete number 1, 2, 3 1)

  11. Your turn • Try writing your own haiku, Limerick, or concrete poem   

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