Dorsey's Reading Literature: Monday, April 9, 2018

Announcements and Reminders:

Happy April!

Targets for Today:

I can read, think about, and discuss literature.
I can read, comprehend, and answer questions about the novel Holes.

Today’s Agenda:

1. Individual Reading Time -- Your own books or Legend or Cinder.

2. Celebrate National Poetry Month

Coming to our Classroom: Poetry and Chocolate on Thursday, April 19

Bring a poem to share. Bring chocolate.

Ms. Dorsey will provide hot chocolate.

You will have some time in the lab on Friday, April 13 to find poems.

Write a haiku about reading or books or a particular book:

Haiku

A Haiku is three lines.

The traditional haiku has

5 syllables in the first line,

7 in the second,

and 5 in the third.

Traditional haiku is about nature, but there are haiku poems about other topics. For instance, the "honku" is about driving in traffic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7-2_gUuWK4

YOU WILL WRITE ONE or more HAIKU. MAKE SURE EACH HAS THREE LINES THAT FOLLOW THE 5 SYLLABLE, 7 SYLLABLE, 5 SYLLABLE PATTERN.

read Winter Solstice

perfect Spring Break book to read
relaxing story

-- Ms. Dorsey

Here is a traditional haiku:

As simple as that --

spring has finally arrived

with a pale blue sky.

-- Issa

Way out in the wild

The willow trees are blowing

Softly in the wind.

-- Lee Caldwell

An old pond!

A frog jumps in --

The sound of water.

-- Matsuo Basho

Erased art leaves lines
like ghosts left to haunt the page
and the next new sketch

--found online

Here is a honku:

Impatient Hummer
honking, speeding, ruining
a weekend morning.
-- Aaron Naparstek

Sharp turn to the right --

60-ounce Super Big Gulp

winds up in my shoe.

-- http://www.honku.org/faves.shtml

And here is a "redneck" haiku:

Well-dressed trailer trash
will have muumus and flip-flops
in matching colors
-- Mary K. Witte

And this is a school haiku by an A.F. student:

A.F. Junior High
has crowded halls with backpacks
and lots of people.
--Adrian G.

Here is another school haiku:

Teachers don’t like me
Because I am a loud mouth.
Should I stay that way?
-- Adam Rose