Welcome Back! I Hope you had a Marvelous Summer!

My name is Miss Wollschlager.
(You can call me Miss W.)

I hope you have a great first week!  If you have any questions, please feel free to ask!

Click, my black lab relaxing this summer

I love to bike in the summer!

My black lab, Click swimming this summer

Caught a lot of walleyes this summer at my cabin

Writing Limericks and Haiku Poems

Credit:greatlakeswritersfestival.org

Why is poetry important?

What is a Limerick poem?

Limerick Video
Limerick information

Rhyming Dictionaries:
http://www.rhymezone.com/
http://www.wordcentral.com/


What is a Haiku poem?

http://edsitement.neh.gov/lesson-plan/can-you-haiku#sect-introduction

Dictionary/Thesaurus:
http://thesaurus.com/browse/kid
http://www.wordsmyth.net/
http://www.merriam-webster.com/

The Basic Elements of a Paragraph

Credit: http://goo.gl/x3nXQN

Group Expectations:
Expectations Padlet

Resources:
The Importance of Good Writing Skills

What is a Paragraph?

Paragraph Visual

Reasons for Writing

Transition Words

Sample Paragraph

Padlets:
The Importance of Good Writing Skills in the Workplace

Topic Sentences

Information/Details

Transition Words

Closing Sentences

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Haiku

-Originated in Japan in the sixteenth century

-They usually describe a single image, usually about nature

-Traditional Haikus are 3 lines long

-The poem's most popular form is:
5 syllables in the first line
7 syllables in the second line
5 syllables in the third line

Haiku poems by J. Patrick Lewis

January woods-
a snowy owl chooing one
syllable of wind

A spring peeper's song!
How strange to hear the echo
of winter sleigh bells

Listen to the Spring Peeper!

Advanced English-Finding a Multicultural Book!

Resources to Find a Multicultural Book:

Books

More Book Lists

Book Lists

Historical Books

Holocaust

History

Amazon Reviews of Young Adult Historical Fiction Books