Spelling Test April 13

quiet, quite, finely, finally, except, accept, than, then, since, sense, affect, effect, from, form, later, latter, adapt, adopt, medal, metal, personal, personnel, proceeding, preceding, immigrate, emigrate

Spelling Test April 6

ice cream, a lot, keyboard, fairy tale, horseshoe, piggy bank, textbook, guidelines, newspaper, space shuttle, hay fever, dead end, password, teenage, skateboard, everything, barbed wire, cartwheel, root beet, fingerprint, air conditioner, blood pressure, worldwide, straightedge, cross country

On-Demand Quick Write

We have been discussing on-demand writing. Quickly type what FAP stands for and explain what you are to do with each one.

Spelling Test March 30

brief, believe, receive, leisure, piece, relief, seize, ceiling, field, neither, apiece, receipt, yield, deceive, achieve, grief, niece, protein, shield, conceited, diesel, retrieval, unwieldy, grievance, deceitful

Spelling Words March 19-23, 2012

important, experience, ignorant, entrance, difference, instance, absence, appearance, intelligent, evidence, pollutant, clearance, confidence, conference, insurance, ambulance, hesitant, consistent, excellence, persistent, iridescent, coincidence, convenient, significant, alliance

Spelling List Test March 9

famous, invention, election, furious, imagination, education, nervous, explanation, various, decision, relaxation, conversation, tension, humorous, exhibition, attraction, invasion, creation, occupation, destination, cancellation, summarization, glamorous, mysterious, administration.

RL 5.5 Poem Structure

Jimmy Jet and His TV Set

By Shel Silverstein

I'll tell you the story of Jimmy Jet-

And you know what I tell you is true.

He loved to watch his TV set

Almost as much as you.

He watched all day, he watched all night

Till he grew pale and lean,

From "The Early Show" to "The Late Late Show"

And all the shows between.

He watched till his eyes were frozen wide,

And his bottom grew into his chair.

And his chin turned into a tuning dial,

And antennae grew out of his hair.

And his brains turned into TV tubes,

And his face to a TV screen.

And two knobs saying "Vert" and "Horiz".

Grew where his ears had been.

And he grew a plug that looked like a tail

So we Plugged in little Jim.

And now instead of him watching TV

We all sit and watch him.

Post your response to questions about the poem above. Answers are due by Friday, March 2, 2012.

1. What is the focus of the first stanza of this poem?

2. How is the focus of the second stanza different from the focus of the third stanza?

3. What rhyme pattern does this poem follow?

4. What rhythm does this poem have?

5. How many stanzas are in this poem?

6. How many lines?

7. How does the final stanza connect to the first stanza?