If you have not finished SAGE testing, you will be called out of class when spaces are available.
Retakes for the word parts test are available during Cavetime today, tomorrow, and Friday.
Pick up book orders, if interested. Orders go in on Friday afternoon.
Today, April 30, is Poem-in-Your-Pocket Day!
[in Just-]
in Just-
spring when the world is mud-
luscious the little
lame balloonman
whistles far and wee
and eddieandbill come
running from marbles and
piracies and it's
spring
when the world is puddle-wonderful
the queer
old balloonman whistles
far and wee
and bettyandisbel come dancing
from hop-scotch and jump-rope and
it's
spring
and
the
goat-footed
balloonMan whistles
far
and
wee
|
Spring is like a perhaps hand
e. e. cummings, 1894 - 1962 III Spring is like a perhaps hand (which comes carefully out of Nowhere)arranging a window,into which people look(while people stare arranging and changing placing carefully there a strange thing and a known thing here)and changing everything carefully spring is like a perhaps Hand in a window (carefully to and fro moving New and Old things,while people stare carefully moving a perhaps fraction of flower here placing an inch of air there)and without breaking anything. |
More Favorite Poems
Today's Activities:
1. Work on your Book of the Month Assignment which is due a week from Friday.
Finish reading your book if needed.
Create the rough draft of your cube and check it off with Ms. Dorsey.
Receive the cardstock cube and create your quality copy.
Poem
Terms
- rhyme
- metaphor
- refrain: a phrase or line repeated at intervals within a poem, especially at the end of a stanza.
Cool Water
Sons of the Pioneers, 1947
All day I've faced a barren waste without the taste of water,
Cool water.
Old Dan and I with throats burned dry and souls that cry for water,
Water. Cool, clear water.
[Chorus:]
Keep a movin' Dan, don't you listen to him Dan, he's a devil not a man
and he spreads the burnin' sand with water.
Dan, can you see that big green tree where the water's runnin' free
and it's waitin' there for me and you.
Cool, clear water.
The night are cool and I'm a fool. Each star's a pool of water,
Cool water.
But with the dawn I'll wake and yawn and carry on to water,
Water. Cool, clear water.
Cool water.
But with the dawn I'll wake and yawn and carry on to water,
Water. Cool, clear water.
[Chorus:]
Keep a movin' Dan, don't you listen to him Dan, he's a devil not a man
and he spreads the burnin' sand with water.
Dan, can you see that big green tree where the water's runnin' free
and it's waitin' there for me and you.
Cool, clear water.
The shadows sway and seem to say tonight we pray for water,
Cool water.
And way up there He'll hear our prayer and show us where there's water,
Water. Cool, clear water.
Keep a movin' Dan, don't you listen to him Dan, he's a devil not a man
and he spreads the burnin' sand with water.
Dan, can you see that big green tree where the water's runnin' free
and it's waitin' there for me and you.
Cool, clear water.
The shadows sway and seem to say tonight we pray for water,
Cool water.
And way up there He'll hear our prayer and show us where there's water,
Water. Cool, clear water.
[Chorus:]
Keep a movin' Dan, don't you listen to him Dan, he's a devil not a man
and he spreads the burnin' sand with water.
Dan, can you see that big green tree where the water's runnin' free
and it's waitin' there for me and you.
Cool, clear water.
Keep a movin' Dan, don't you listen to him Dan, he's a devil not a man
and he spreads the burnin' sand with water.
Dan, can you see that big green tree where the water's runnin' free
and it's waitin' there for me and you.
Cool, clear water.
Dan's feet are sore. He's yearning for just one thing more than water,
Cool water.
Like me, I guess, he'd like to rest where there's no quest for water,
Water. Cool, clear water.
found at and adapted from http://www.songlyrics.com/sons-of-the-pioneers/cool-water-1947-lyrics/
Composition Book Prompt:
Label with the title "Water" and with today's date.
Answer any or all of these questions.
Have you ever been really thirsty, or ever been short of water?
Do you know of any stories or books or movies or other shows in which the characters were short on water?
What do you know about drought? What do you know about deserts?
B5, B6, B7 to here:
4. Begin reading A Long Walk to Water.(For those students assigned to complete background research, here are the links: Sudan Research)
Targets:
“I can determine the meaning of visual representations on a map.”
“I can determine the meaning of visual representations on a map.”
“I can read for gist as we begin Chapter 1 in A Long Walk to Water.”
Vocabulary!
Add these highlighted words to your vocabulary section in your composition book: (page 25)
Do you know what to do when you are asked to "determine"?
- Determine means to decide after study.
- The word representation is made up of the root word present, meaning “to show or symbolize,” and its affixes (beginning and endings) re- and -tion. Explain that adding these affixes changes the meaning of the word present with re- meaning “again” (like repeat) and -tion meaning “the act of doing something.” Explain that when these parts of the word are put together, re-presenta-tion, the word means the act of showing or symbolizing something again, in this case with visuals or pictures on a map.
re- :
-tion: the act of doing something
Gist: “Gist” is simply one’s initial sense of what a text is mostly about: it is a low stakes first
“toe hold” into making sense of a text, preceding and less formal than identifying main idea.
“toe hold” into making sense of a text, preceding and less formal than identifying main idea.
Read Chapter 1 for gist.
Reread for Close Reading -- I Wonder. . . . . I Notice. . . .
B7 to top of page 6
A1 to here
What does it mean to ‘effectively participate in a discussion'? Partners.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2tI5zW3IU8 The Good Lie
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If you need to retake your Word Parts Test this week, carefully study so you will receive full points. It will be offered beginning on Wednesday of this week and through Friday._______________________________
Word Parts with example words
- auto = self as in automobile, autobiography
- bio = life as in biology, autobiography
- con, co, col, cor, com = together, with (prefix) as in conversation, cooperation, communicate
- dict = speak as in diction, dictate, predict
- duc, duct = lead as in conduct, induct
- graph = write as in autograph, biography
- in, im = in, into (or) not (prefix) as in import, ineligible
- inter = between (prefix) as in interject
- ject = throw as in interject, reject
- meter = measure thermometer, telemetry
- micro = small microscope, microbiology
- -ology, -logy = study of (branch of knowledge, science of) (suffix) as in biology, geology, etc.
- port = carry as in import, export, deport, portage, portable
- pre = before (prefix) as in predict, prefix, prepare
- re = again (prefix) as in reject, redo
- scope = examine as in microscope, telescope
- tele = far as in telescope, teleport
- tract = pull as in tractor, retract, attract
- trans = across as in transport, transact
- vis or vid = see as in video, vision, revision
