Thanksgiving Stanzas

Write a poem about Thanksgiving.  Your poem can be about what giving thanks means to you, or it can be about the food, or it can be about Indians and Pilgrims. 

Your poem must follow the following form:

3 Stanzas

4 lines per stanza

Rhyme scheme ABAB CDCD EFEF

For example:

Thanksgiving leaves crunch;

The west-wind blows in cool.

Families gather in a bunch

Children act a fool.

The bird goes in the oven hot,

Plucked clean and basted juicy.

The gravy steams out of the pot;

Let's eat the golden goosey!

Assembled 'round the table set

The dinner makes us happy.

After dinner we soon forget

And take a November nappy.

Personal Poetry

1.  Select a poem from The Poetry Foundation.

2.  Paste your poem into the blog.

3.  Who wrote the poem?

4.  What is the poem about?

5.  How does it make you feel?

6.  What words does the poet use to evoke imagery?

Question For Seniors

We will have some Seniors visit our class.  Please write one or two questions down that you would like to ask them.  You can ask about Westlake issues, college prep issues, or anything you want that is classroom appropriate.