Monday, December 17, 2012

Participle Poems (updated with homework)

The raging storm, replete with freezing rain,
Crashed upon my window pane.
Slipping and sliding upon concrete,
I became insecure, a retired athlete.
A known fact of life is that all things must pass.
And I’ll be as I was: a warm purring cat.


Your task:
1. Come up with three different phrases that include a present or past participle (raging storm, burning log) (2 minutes)

      -Can't think of any? Think of any verb in its infinitive form: to swim, to bark, to kick, to cry, to break, to injure. Then add an -ed, -n, -en for past participle, or -ing for present participle: swimming, barking, kicking, crying, broken, injured. Now add any noun after your participle. There it is!

2.  Pass your three phrases to your right

3. Come up with an original poem, that includes all three participial phrases.

HW: 1. workbook page 63 and 64 A
         2. Bring book for book club tomorrow. You may bring e-readers if that is most convenient to you.
NOTE: Please don't read ahead of schedule without first consulting all group members. You are to experience the book as a group. This will not be possible if one or two members read ahead.

-Mr. B.

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