The Hawks Talk » Poetry http://stgeorgesenglish.com Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:00:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 What Period 4 learned The week of 9/10/07 http://stgeorgesenglish.com/2008/04/06/what-peroid-4-learned-the-week-of-91007/ http://stgeorgesenglish.com/2008/04/06/what-peroid-4-learned-the-week-of-91007/#comments Sun, 06 Apr 2008 12:54:38 +0000 jasmined http://stgeorgesenglish.com/2008/04/06/what-peroid-4-learned-the-week-of-91007/ On Monday we made a book called Poetic Devices. we defined the following words in this book: simile, metaphor, personification, hyperbole, onomatopoeia, and alliteration. On Tuesday we took our understanding of Simile and Metaphor, and we did RFA #3. On Wednesday we did a word wall which is writing a sentence using the words that we defined in our Poetic Devices booklet,and did RFA #4. Thursdaywe did RFA#5 and we picked groups for our Digital Storytelling Projects. In our Groups we brainstormed ideas for the poem and themes for the pictures.Friday we did RFA#6 and brainstormed more ideas for the Digital Storytelling projects.

]]> http://stgeorgesenglish.com/2008/04/06/what-peroid-4-learned-the-week-of-91007/feed/ 2 Response to “Legal Alien” http://stgeorgesenglish.com/2007/10/12/response-to-legal-alien/ http://stgeorgesenglish.com/2007/10/12/response-to-legal-alien/#comments Fri, 12 Oct 2007 11:19:36 +0000 cohara http://stgeorgesenglish.com/2007/10/12/response-to-legal-alien/ In her poem, Pat Mora discusses what it feels like to her to be Mexican-American.  Do you believe that our society prejudges immigrants?  Do we make certain assumptions about people from other countries?  Do we treat immigrants from one country different than we treat immigrants from another country?  Are there some immigrants that are more likely to be prejudged than others?

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]]> http://stgeorgesenglish.com/2007/10/12/response-to-the-road-not-taken/feed/ 11 The Lesson of the Moth Response http://stgeorgesenglish.com/2007/09/24/the-lesson-of-the-moth-response/ http://stgeorgesenglish.com/2007/09/24/the-lesson-of-the-moth-response/#comments Mon, 24 Sep 2007 11:07:41 +0000 cohara http://stgeorgesenglish.com/2007/09/24/the-lesson-of-the-moth-response/ We recently read a poem “The Lesson of the Moth” that discusses how one should live one’s life.  What is your reaction to the poem?  Should one be a moth, a cockroach, or some combination of the two?

UPDATE: John Batteiger, a news editor for the San Francisco Chronicle, created and edits the DonMarquis.com web site where readers can find a copy of “The Lesson of the Moth.”  -  APowell

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