Inspirational Experience Reflection

The experience I used in my poem was losing our football game. The experience changed me because our team could’ve gone undefeated if we won. Before the experience happened I was supper happy that we were going to win because we were going to be undefeated but now when I play a football game and it is very close I start to get nervous and start to think about what might happen next. Another example Is when I saw our running back get hit it made me think twice about running on the field during a live play without knowing where defensive players are at. From the experience I learned that in football game there is going to be a lot of losing and a lot of winning and that there is always a winner and a loser.

Inspirational Rhyming Poem

The football was nice and brown.

The quarterback would pass it around

 The corner went up, and got mossed.

 The wide receiver said I’m the boss.

The ball was at the one yard line.

The running back thought he would be fine.

The ball was hiked and he started to run.

He didn’t see the line backer come.

He turned the corner but then he got cracked.

Turnover on downs and the ball went back.

So long game the team was whack.

They said next time they will be back.

songs Containing Figures of Speech from Boys/Girls #

1. More by Matthew West, "do you feel like a grain of sand?"
2. Natural Women by Aretha Franklin, "bridge over troubled as if over water."

3. Yes by George Michael, " "Careless Whisper."

4. Hard Day's Night by The Beatles, "I've been workin' like a dog."

5. Love The Way You Lie by Eminem ft. Rihanna, "I like the way it hurts."

6. Love like woe by The Ready Set, "It's like a hurricane."

7. Right above it by Lil Wayne ft. Drake, "when the heavens are right above it."

8. Heartbreak Warfare by John Mayer, "It's heartbeat warfare."

9. Replay by IYAZ, "Shawty's like a melody in my head."

10. Art of madness by Micheal Jackson, “ There’s an art to all this madness.”

My teaching experiance

As I walked into class I was told that I was going to teach my class lesson with a kid named Michael. When I heard I was going to teach my class I felt like a little kid that just rode a bike for the first time. I thought it was going to be cool teaching a class for the first time until me and Michael were called up and my stomach dropped like I was on a roller coaster. When I was walking up to the front of the class I started to think what I was going to say and what I was going to do. When I got to the front of the class we told the class to open their books to the page the poem was on. After we got everybody to the right page me and Michael got into a little argument about how are we going to read the poem with the class because we didn’t have an audio recording of the poem, after we had that argument it looked like Ms.Priester had enough of our arguing she went to the back room and came out with a CD of the poems. When she put the CD in we had the students read along and when they were done we had them fill out a graphic organizer about the poem. When the whole class was done with the graphic organizer we told the class that there is a link on the form for their homework. So at the end of class my teaching experience was ok but I honestly think I’m not teacher material because I was a little unprepared for the lesson.

Figurative Language in Old Poetry

Similes + Metaphors + Personification = Figurative Language

Metaphors:

1. Love is a journey: It’s been a long, bumpy road.

2. Life is a three-ring circus.

3. Hate is a pit of burning coals raging inside me.

4. 2 pees in a pod

Similes:

1. Community meeting is like a waste of time.

2. Passes are like a one way trip out of here.

3. The gym is like a place where I can focus.

4. My house is like a play pin with kids in it.

Personification:

 1. The moon is like a big bowl of milk in the sky without someone drinking it.

 2. Flowers are like a kid toys always scattered around.

 3. A phone is like people talking we call it a chatter box.

 4. A car is like a bike needs someone to drive or start it.

Figurative Language with a Random Object

Free Choice Blog Post

One thing I like about being in ninth grade is it’s my first year in high school and I can meet more people. One reason I like being in high school is I could join a high school basketball team or football team with other kids in higher grades then I am in. I would join the high school   football team or basketball team because it’s sort of a challenge for me because most the kids on other teams are bigger than me.  Another reason I like being in high school is the home work and class work. I like high school home work and class work because it’s kind of the same as middle school but different because some of your work can be on computer and in middle school your work is all on paper. So that is why I like being in high school.  

"Folding Wantons" Paragraph

One food I have made from memory is eggs, and grilled cheese. Learning how to cook these foods is really easy for eggs all you have to do is put a pan on the stove, put butter in the pan, crack the egg in the pan, and wait till the eggs are done. For grilled cheese all you have to do is put a pan on the stove, put a slice of cheese in the middle of two slices of bread, put some butter in the pan, and put the sandwich in the pan and there you go. Honestly my grandma made me cook these foods because she was the one who thought me how to cook.  The way I learned how to cook was from my grandma it special to me that my grandma thought me how to cook because at the time my grandma was the only one there in my life and she was the only person that cared for me. It’s also special to me because its one memory I have of her.

Memorable Valentine's Day

One of my Valentine’s Day memories was when I was in the fourth grade and everybody in my class had to bring in a Valentine’s Day gift for the whole class. So the day before valentines I asked my mom if she can take me to go get my whole class a gift, so when we were at the store we were walking down the candy section and my mom pulled out a random bag of candy  and threw it in the cart and walked to the cash register. When we got home I helped my mom carry the groceries into our house, anxious to see what kind of candy my mom picked out I started digging through the bags as soon as I found the bag of candy it was a bag full of Care Bear gummy candies. So the next day I had to go to school with a bag of care bears to give my whole class which everybody in my class was giving out heart shaped suckers and nerds . so that is one of my valentine’s day memories

" Week in Rap" Wordle

Woman Work Parapraph

In the story the author is trying to tell you that she does because she has to but most of the time she does them because she likes being around nature. She is trying to say that because at the end of the poem the author starts to talk a lot about nature and how she wants the wind to blow her away till she rests that night. Some chores I do around my house is clean my room, clean my dishes and vacuum the house. Sometimes I like doing my chores because over the weekend I can go somewhere like the movies, but I also like doing my chores because I like seeing my own house clean. From what I read it sounds like the author didn’t like doing her chores. It looks like the author didn’t like doing her chores because she had a lot of things to do before she can rest and she is trying to tell you that even though she has a lot of chores the joy she gets out of it is being with nature.

" Women Work" Wordle

"Fog, Fire and Ice" Paragraph

The animal in the poem “Fog” is a cat. I think the author chose this animal because fog creeps up on people like a cat does. I would have chosen this animal because the fog creeps up on people because it comes in the morning and a little cat sneaks up on their owner in the morning to wake them up or when they want to play. I would choose a cat even thought the narrator used one already. I would choose a cat because cats are very sneaky and they can pop out of nowhere and surprise you or their owner.




The world is going to end in fire. The world is going to end in fire because when I used to read the bible it would say that god will burn the world but save all the people that have been good and never committed a sin and if the world would end in ice it would have said it in the bible.. I think nothing is going to happen. If the world will come to an end it would most likely happen in 2012. When the world comes to an end I will be either in the NBA or NFL dunking on people or scoring touchdowns.

"Fog" and "Fire and Ice" Grapic Organizer

"Country Scene" Paragraph

His feelings are that he can love someone but it never lasts and when it comes to poetry it lasts forever. He takes poetry as something he loves until he moves on. He is trying to tell me that the mood in the "Country Scene “is very foggy and has a bunch of details not just the falling water. The mood set is for the reader to think that the end is something to think about. Based on the narrator, he is trying to show the real meaning of the title, trying to figure out why love can’t always last but poetry can

Special Day Haiku.

Kids giving kisses

People getting notes

Girls liking boys

“A Blessing” Break into Blossom Paragraph

 One time when I felt like I was going to break into a blossom was when I hear I was going to have a little brother and little sister. When I hear I was going to have younger siblings I was six years old and I was living in Los Angeles with my dad. I was sitting down in the living room on the couch eating a bowl of cereal and watching cartoons when my dad came into the house after answering the phone and told my older brother and me that we are going to have a little brother and sister. I saw my dad with the phone in his hand with a big smile on his face and my brother happy and smiling with my dad. I heard my dad and brother talking about what we are going to name our brother and sister. I was touching my cereal bowl and my TV remote. I felt happy because I have four older siblings and now I have two younger siblings. The experience changed me because I was use to being the youngest and now that I have younger siblings I can play and have fun with them like my older brothers and sisters did with me

"The Blessing" Reading Activity

Paragraph to Persuade You to Read My Poem

The name of my poems are “The American Hero, and "The Base Stealer”. The author of “The American Hero” is Essex Hemphill and the author of “The Base Stealer” is Robert Francis. Someone should read my poem because both poems are about taking risks and sacrifices. One reason someone should read this poem because in life there are always losers and not everybody wins. In “The Base Stealer” the character takes the risk of stealing home plate to win the game for his team. Some people might not want to read this poem because they are too cocky and nobody is better then them. But that’s why they should read these poems because they should know that in life some people will win some and some people will lose some. The best part of the Poems are the ending because in both poems the character ends up taking a risk or sacrifice and ends up winning the game for their team.

"Fire And Ice"

In the poem “Fire and Ice” by Robert Frost the imagery creates a confusing but also wondering sensation to what might happen to the world in the future. In the poem it said, “ Some say the world will end in fire and some say in ice.” This part is supposed to make you think if the world will end in fire or ice. This since apples to seeing what might happen in the future. In this part the image that it creates is a big fireball split in half by ice. I think imagery is good for this poem because the readers have to think what might happen in the future if the world will end in fire or ice.

Imagery in a Selected Poem

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