12-11-13 Jaden Ruleaux

When I walked through the school doors this morning the halls were silent and empty.  Just another cold, winter day.  Tomorrow we have a test on Africa in first period world geography so we spent the whole class studying.  Then walking into Mrs. Troester's room you could smell the air freshener instantly.  Like everyday I put my stuff by my desk and walked around the halls until the bell rang.

Mrs. Morrow was gone so Mrs. Troester taught the class.  We started off watching a video of a guy reading a poem about borrowing pens from girls.  After that we got out our journals and wrote a paragraph about how our view of poetry changed since last week and what we learned about writing poetry.  She handed out a piece of paper with a poem about basketball on it.  We read it aloud then highlighted or underlined the strong verbs that gave us good images.

We listened to a podcast with a few different "This is just to say" poems and wrote our own.  After reading three out loud we posted them on our blogs, along with our symbol poems.  Because we were behind in Bronx Masquerade we read that for the rest of the period.  If you were gone you didn't miss a whole lot.  Just make sure you have a "This is just to say poem" done and posted on your blog.

An example of a "This is just to say" poem by William Carlos Williams