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Warm Up- Complete in notebooks –take out HW .

Warm Up- Complete in notebooks –take out HW . . 1. Write a simile about winter break. 2. Use personification to describe a type of weather. 3. Use a metaphor to compare yourself with something else. 4. Write a hyperbole about anything. HW Review. It Seems I Test People by James Berry

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Warm Up- Complete in notebooks –take out HW .

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  1. Warm Up- Complete in notebooks –take out HW. • 1. Write a simile about winter break. • 2. Use personification to describe a type of weather. • 3. Use a metaphor to compare yourself with something else. • 4. Write a hyperbole about anything.

  2. HW Review It Seems I Test People by James Berry My skin sun-mixed like basic earth my voice having tones of thunder my laughter working all of me as I laugh my walk motioning strong swings it seems I test people Always awaiting a move waiting always to recreate my view my eyes packed with hellos behind them my arrival bringing departures it seems I test people

  3. Poetry Review Centers • Complete your sheet by visiting each of the four centers and following the directions at each one. • You can work as a group but you must be finished with the sheet by the end of the day. • Expectations- always on task, hands to yourself, indoor voices and indoor behavior.

  4. I'm Nobody! Who are you?Emily Dickinson • I'm Nobody! Who are you? Are you – Nobody – too? Then there's a pair of us! Don't tell! they'd advertise – you know! How dreary – to be – Somebody! How public – like a Frog –  To tell one's name – the livelong June –  To an admiring Bog! • Find and example of a simile. • What is the meaning of the simile? • Based on the poem, what do you think the speaker does when he/she wants to have a good time? • Use evidence to explain your answer to #3.

  5. Your World by Georgia Douglas Johnson • Your world is as big as you make itI know, for I used to abideIn the narrowest nest in a cornerMy wings pressing close to my sideBut I sighted the distant horizonWhere the sky-line encircled the seaAnd I throbbed with a burning desireTo travel this immensity.I battered the cordons around meAnd cradled my wings on the breezeThen soared to the uttermost reacheswith rapture, with power, with ease!

  6. From the descriptions of lines 2-4 you can infer that the speaker’s life used to be • Predictable • Happy • harsh • exciting 2. The Topic of the poem is: • Leaving home • Choosing independence • Enjoying nature • Making friends • The description in lines 11-12 it suggests that the speaker has A. Become an important person B. Experienced new adventures C. Lived a life of luxury D. Decided to return home • Which statement best describes the theme of the poem? • SOMETIMES IT IS GOOD TO LIVE ALONE • HAPPINESS COMES FROMTRAVELING • EXPERIENCE IS THE BEST TEACHER • YOU ARE AS FREE AS YOU WANT TO BE

  7. Good Hotdogs by Sandra Cisneros • Fifty cents apiece • To eat our lunch • We'd run • Straight from school • Instead of home 5 • Two blocks • Then the store • That smelled like steam • You ordered • Because you had the money 10 • Two hotdogs and two pops for here • Everything on the hotdogs • Except pickle lily • Dash those hotdogs • Into buns and splash on 15 • All that good stuff • Yellow mustard and onions • And french fries piled on top all • Rolled up in a piece of wax • Paper for us to hold hot 20 • In our hands • Quarters on the counter • Sit down • Good hotdogs • We'd eat 25 • Fast till there was nothing left • But salt and poppy seeds even • The little burnt tips • Of french fries • We'd eat 30 • you humming • And me swinging my legs

  8. Good Hot Dogs • 1. Describe the mood of the poem with at least five descriptive words. • 2. Find four examples of sensory language? • 3. Connect to something you have experienced in your own life.

  9. The Pasture by Robert Frost • I'm going out to clean the pasture spring;I'll only stop to rake the leaves away(And wait to watch the water clear, I may):I shan't be gone long. -- You come too. I'm going out to fetch the little calfThat's standing by the mother. It's so young,It totters when she licks it with her tongue.I shan't be gone long. -- You come too. • Robert Frost

  10. The PASTURE By Robert Frost • 1. Describe the mood of the poem with at least five descriptive words. • 2. Find four examples of sensory language? • 3. Connect to something you have experienced in your own life.

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