Def Jam Poetry

Assignment: Write three paragraphs that compare and contrast the following two spoken word poems. Use quotes from the poems to justify your explanation and analysis.

First Paragraph: Compare and explain the theme of the poems.
Second Paragraph: Contrast and explain the tone of the poems.
Third Paragraph: Contrast the word choice and rhythm of the poems and how the rhythms affect the meaning.





Standards Being Addressed:

3.4 Define how tone or meaning is conveyed in poetry through word choice, figurative language, sentence structure, line length, punctuation, rhythm, repetition, and rhyme.

2.2 Analyze text that uses the compare-and-contrast organizational pattern.

New Unit Time: POETRY!

Here are some websites that will help you dive in to our new unit, Poetry!

http://pbskids.org/arthur/games/poetry/what.html

http://www.poetry4kids.com/

http://robertfrostoutloud.com/StoppingByWoodsOnASnowyEvening.html

http://www.imaginesongs.com/

http://www.hbo.com/russell-simmons-presents-brave-new-voices

Magnetic Poetry

Instant Poetry Forms

Welcome New Sixth Graders!

Blog Expectations:

When you complete your homework, the class blog is here for you to "surf" internet resources related to what we are learning in class. It is a requirement of this class to find the opportunity to go on the internet, and access these resources.

Practice surfing the internet by completing the following scavenger hunt:

1) On the Discovery Education website, find thepuzzlemaker on the page, and make the puzzle of your choice.

http://www.discoveryeducation.com

2) On the Arcademics Skill Builders website, find the division game, and play to practice your division.

http://www.arcademicskillbuilders.com/games/

3) On the BBC website, find the game titled Spelling, and practice your spelling.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/english/spelling_grammar/

Ancient Rome Games and More!

Explore Ancient Rome:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryhistory/romans/

Watch videos on Ancient Rome by pressing the link below and entering the user-name and password. Then, go into the Social Studies folder and find the video you want to watch:

User-Name: shawn525

Password: shawn

http://player.discoveryeducation.com/index.cfm?guidAssetId=C0B7A622-A4C2-4792-B4FB-9C9DACC50FF8

Concepts to Review for SS CST

Early Humans/ Stone Age people	Ancient Mesopotamia	Ancient Hebrews	Ancient Egypt	Ancient Greece
Original Homo-Sapiens living in Africa	First to use irrigation	First to believe in Monotheism	First to have religious ideas of eternal life	First to create democracy
Slash-and-Burn agriculture	First permanent settlements	Ten Commandments	Writing of hieroglyphics	Political system based on independent city-states
Mammoth bone huts	Hammurabi’s Code	Moses	The Great Pyramids	Mountainous terrain
Communicated with ideograms on rocks	First code of laws and punishments	First to teach about morals and ethics, or doing right from wrong	Hieroglyphics written on Rosetta Stone	Homer’s Illiad and Odyssey
Cave-painting	Writing of cuneiform	Torah- the Jewish Scripture	Only woman pharaoh, Hatshepsut	First to create a political process based on citizenship
		Synagogues develop and spread Judaism		Creator of the root words we still use today, such as herculean, and labyrinth
		Ten Plagues		United into one empire by Alexander the Great
		Exodus of Jewish people from Egypt		Plague of Athens
				Socrates

Ancient India	Ancient China
Sub-continent	Emperor Shi Huangdi
Bay of Bengal	Era of the Warring States
Indus River Valley	Isolated from the rest of the world
Hinduism	Tibetan Plateau
Vedas	Great Wall of China
Caste System	Confucianism
The god Brahman	Daoism
Siddhartha Gautama and the Middle Way	Yin-and-Yang
Asoka, the first ruler to spread Buddhism	Dynasties
Bhagavad Gita	Ancestor Worship