I'm a wee bit worried that not everyone is working on these assignments; I do understand that it's tempting to think "Whoopee! Holiday!" but the thing is that we'll still be assessing your progress the same as usual, and those people who aren't doing the work now are going to fall behind.
:/
However, a massive HURRAH for those people who are doing the work! Good for you!
I get the impression that we're maybe not all super confident with rhyme and rhythm and alliteration and all these sound patterns that happen in poetry, so today we're going to do some nice simple exercises to build up your confidence with rhymes:
RHYMING WORDS ACTIVITY
LEARNING OBJECTIVE: TO LISTEN CAREFULLY TO THE SOUNDS OF WORDS AND HEAR THE RHYMES.
Some of these words rhyme with other words, but some of them don't. Put the rhyming words together into sets. (There might be more than 2 in a set of rhyming words! There will also be some words that don't have any rhyming words to go with them - they will have to go into their own sets of one word per set.)
Remember to say them out loud - sometimes words in English might have the same groups of letters in them but still SOUND different, and with poetry it's the sounds that count!
moon witch wolf vampire spooky
ghost toast haunt scream bat spoon
most dream lost cloud mean switch
breeze fleas cat golf soon post loud
crowd cow now go crow shoe glue
pumpkin cheese that true bones
walk moans frosting broomstick
castle shiver snow talk trees
free pork fireworks quiver team
I suggest that you write them out in groups, like this:
1) bat, cat, that
2) moon, spoon, soon
3)
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In the spooky spirit of Hallowe'en, and just for fun, here's a recording of me reading a narrative poem I wrote a few months ago, with illustrations by a friend. It's a little bit like 'Little Red Riding Hood'...and a little bit not.
http://hitrecord.org/records/393817
Here's a link to what it looks like written down:
http://hitrecord.org/records/380616
And here's a different version of my poem being performed by a gentleman I know, with sound effects:
http://hitrecord.org/records/538625
(No, you don't have to do any writing activities based around it! Not today, anyway. But I thought you might enjoy the poem, and it's kind of spooky, so I thought I'd share it with you.)
