Thursday, February 5, 2009

Class began with a read aloud book titled The Bug in the Teacher's Coffee and other poems by Kalli Dakos. The book is a nonfiction collection of poems about school. Next, Juanita read an excerpt from the "Dear Mr. Paulsen" letter. Juanita then used strips of paper with phrases taken from the letter and had members of the class form a poem using them. Then, she read her own poem using the same phrases. After this, the class worked on cutting out words from magazines and put them together to form a poem. Lastly, the class turned in the writing timeline events, which included the rough drafts as well.