Personification Poems

We have been working on personification poems this week...please share your writing with us!!

Do you Haiku?

Please share your haiku poetry with us!  Be sure to put your initials and homeroom.

Cinquain Poetry

Share your cinquain poetry...be sure to put your initials and homeroom.  I can't wait to read your poetry!

French and Indian War

What are you learning about the French and Indian War?  What makes this event important to our history? How did the end of the war affect the colonists? 

Prepositions are Over the Top!

We have been working with adding prepositional phrases to our sentences lately...Have some fun adding sentences with prepositional phrases!

The dog walked.  The poodle pranced up the street on the way to the grocery store to beg for some food.

How do you know when you are reading a text with GREAT ideas?

Now that we've been talking about idea development, what books and/or authors show great idea development in their writing?  What makes these books and authors fun to read?  What makes their work memorable?

Colonial America Wax Museum Project

Now that you have had some time to research a bit, what are you finding out about your historical figure?  Be sure to tell us the name of the person - or group of people - you are researching in your comment!