"Imagine a place with vehicles but no seat belts. What else it there to save you from a devastating crash?"
That was the introduction from my speech. I have to be honest, presenting my speech was pretty nerve racking. But once I started I couldn't stop. Writing my speech was a big proses. Once I wrote it, I must have edited it about 20 times. What helped me write my speech is when I broke it down into 5 sections. Introduction, 1st subtopic, 2nd subtopic, 3rd subtopic, and Conclusion. This helped me because I could work one step at a time. If you have to ever write a speech I would recommend breaking it down the way I did.
If you want to hear more of my speech just leave a comment.
I enjoyed reading this book called "Hatchet". It's about a 13 year old boy named Brian, he is a passenger in a bush plane. The pilot had a heart attack out of the blue and died. Brian was then forced to take over the plane. He chose to wait until the plane ran out of fuel. When the plane ran out of fuel, Brian crashed into a lake. Brian was then forced to live on his own in the Northern Woods. Alone, with animals. Imagine being stranded with nothing but a hatchet. Would you survive?
I have finished my poetry project and presented it in the shape of a book. The types of poetry I did were Sensory poem, Haiku poem, Character poem and Concrete poem. The learning intentions I was following for each poem are:
Character poem is written with a persona other than that of the author. The speaker could be
another person, a fictional character, a machine, an object, an animal.
Sensory poem uses vivid words to create a sensory impression in the readers mind. Stimulates
more than one sense that the reader can see hear taste smell and feel the subject being
described.
Concrete Poem is a poem whose meaning is conveyed through shape or
pattern on the page.
Haiku Lines 5,7,5 syllables.
What I learned (Below)
I learned a number of new things and tips in the process of poetry. But there were about three things that really popped out at me that I really never knew before. One was all of the poetic devices. I only knew Similes and Personification at first. But know I also know Alliteration, Metaphor, Onomatopoeia and Rhyme. All of the poetic devices really helped me improve in my writing. It made me go deeper. For example if it was cold then instead of saying it’s cold you could say it is as cold as the Arctic ocean. See the difference?
The other thing that really was floating in my mind as I was writing poetry is that “There is no right or wrong in poetry”. When I first started this poetry unit, I thought that it had to be rhyme. If it didn’t rhyme then it wasn’t poetry. But poetry is where you can express your feelings. Well I guess to express your feelings in some types of poetry. Like if you are doing Character poems I guess you can’t express your feelings. Because in Character poetry you have to take a living or nonliving thing and pretend that you are it. Character poetry is my favorite. I like to add some comedy to it.
But after this unit was finished I learned more about myself. I learned that really understand how to do Character poetry. This unit was fun and Unique. I loved doing this unit because of how unique you can be.
Be sure to check out my poem below.
Learning Intention: I can create different poems using specific forms.
I enjoyed hunting down words that just pop out at you.
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Learning intention: I can use a poetic device, alliteration to develop meaning in my writing.
What I learned: I learned how to make a litteration.
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FALL.....
Leaves, vibrant colors, marshmallows floating on hot chocolate and the crackling fireplace. These are a few things that remind me of Fall.
Fall is watching one leaf at a time gently tumbling off a wiggly branch and softly landing like an airplane landing on a flat platform.Just haunting you to gear up and go in the zero degrees weather with a rake and madly repeat slam and drag until you get that pile of 60 after one hour of blood sweat and tears. Then you are on your best behaviour to remind yourself that you don’t want to jump in the pile but you do anyways! So you have to start raking all over again. This time it takes you two hours, because there are now more leaves.When you return back inside your hands are so numb that when you turn the cold water on and put your hands underneath it is boiling hot and then you say “uh oh it's Fall”. Fall is wasting 24 lame hours scrambling around like a headless chicken from magazine to magazine waiting for your eyes to land on the perfect costume, but it never does, so you end up with a white sheet over your head and then two holes for your eyes.
Fall is spending five hours wandering around the field of orange pumpkins that look like they are as orange as last year's pumpkin field,(and that was pretty orange) looking for just the right one. You know what I mean, the one with the round but plump face that is just perfect to make the evilest face. The pumpkin that scares you the most out of every house you trick-or-treat at, the one with the odd shaped eyes and nose scrunched up like a pig’s nose and the mouth.........oh the mouth........ the mouth the one with the fangs and the pointy teeth. Fall is carving your pumpkin so it looks like the most evilest one ever carved, to me pumpkin carving is sitting down on the ground with big spoons and getting all the pumpkins brains out. I always end up using my hands and it feels slimier than snail and slug slime mixed into one. Next I take a sharpie and draw odd shapes for the eyes and nose then an odder shape for the mouth but at the end it looks more evil than I wanted it to be.
Fall is not going NEAR anywhere outside because you are frightened that you will freeze like an ice-cube in the freezer, starting to grow frost on it. Fall is the weather madly changing from the sun beaming down on you leaving a red mark on you to rain firing rain like bullets at you and everyone around you. Fall is frost all over. It's pulling out the big puffy winter jackets that might not fit, that fluffy hat that everyone laughs at but you don’t care because they're the ones freezing their ears off, pulling out those gloves that keep your hands from turning blue, and wearing pants instead of shorts because it is six degrees outside. Fall is changing your footwear from those purple and blue overused sandals to blue and purple rubber boots so you can enjoy a wander around the park and splashing in puddles freely like there is no tomorrow.
Fall is dragging yourself to Staples (when you would rather sleep) to go on a major scavenger hunt for the coolest new school supplies. It ends up costing a fortune, and you end up buying a backpack even though you agreed with yourself and parents that you don’t need one.
Fall is another soccer season starting up in the unbelievably freezing cold weather, like i'm talking below zero weather, so cold that if you leave a cup of water outside it will turn into pure ice. After my soccer game we are trying to avoid the nearest Tim Hortons but we end up going in and enjoying a nice hot chocolate with marshmallows bobbing up and down in the pool of chocolate, and it reminds me of when I swim in the pool and how I wish it was chocolate.
Fall - leaves,cold weather, Halloween, clothing, soccer and school. Oh, how I love fall.
What learned,I learned how to "paint a picture" which means I can make the reader visualize what the word says for example: " Fall is the hot chocolate with whipcream and white islands floating around and when you take a sip is warms your insides to the bone"
What I learned: In class we are reading the one and only Ivan. This is my visulization for the book. Go to the following website to learn more about the one and only Ivan: www.onlyivan.weebly.com
Learning intention: I can use strategies during reading to help build understanding of the text.
Learning intention: I can create a poem that follows a specific form and uses creative descriptive language to describe who I am.
I learned that: I can use my imagination to describe who I am. It was Fun to describe who I am in a poem.
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