For tomorrow, Thursday, 1/30, choose a favourite poem or two from the poetry books, practice it for rhythm (if it has it) and declaim it to the class Thursday.
Couplets and Quatrains
For Monday, 2/03, you will create some couplets and quatrains to share to the class. You may write couplets and/or quatrains, but the total will be sixteen lines. Google for some famous examples in English, but do not copy them! Rhythm is often more important than rhyme, but most have both.
A couplet is a pair of lines of meter in poetry. Couplets usually consist of two lines that rhyme and have the same meter.
A quatrain is a type of stanza, or a complete poem, consisting of four lines... There are twelve possible rhyme schemes, but the most traditional and common are: AAAA,AABB, and ABAB.
Translation
For Wednesday, 2/05, you should choose a famous poem from one of your parents' non-English languages to read to us: both the original and the translation into English. With Google and a parent you should be able to do this. You could even find two translations into English. Because nobody can translate precisely, there are variations.
For Wednesday, 2/05, you should choose a famous poem from one of your parents' non-English languages to read to us: both the original and the translation into English. With Google and a parent you should be able to do this. You could even find two translations into English. Because nobody can translate precisely, there are variations.
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