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What do you want to be when you grow up?

This is the first post for our 2008-2009 seventh graders…

Lunes

today’s lunes <— click on link for lune samples to explore

Get a head-start on tomorrow’s lesson:

“Peaches” poem   <—— tomorrow’s lesson topic

Sonnet 18

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?

Thou art more lovely and more temperate.

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,

And summer’s lease hath all too short a date.

Sometimes too hot the eye of heaven shines,

And often is his gold complexion dimmed;

And every fair from fair sometimes declines,

By chance or nature’s changing course untrimmed.

But thy eternal summer shall not fade

Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st;

Nor shall Death brag thou wanderest in his shade,

When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st.

So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,

So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.                                                                            

 

Today’s samples of limericks

Today’s Samples  <—– click this link for the poems we viewed in class

Period 6: do step six…Period 7: do five and six

First Early Mornings Together

Waking up over the candy store together

We hear birds waking up below the sill

And slowly recognize ourselves, the weather,

The time, and the birds that rustle there

Do steps 4, 5, and 6 (key ideas, i.d. meaning, reread with meaning) either as a comment, or in writing for tomorrow’s class.

A copy of the poem is in my comment below.