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Monday, December 5, 2011

Our Class Simile Poems

My a.m. class wrote the following poem this morning using similes, humor, and rhythm. Enjoy!

Walmart
As chaotic as a zoo,
As gigantic as an airport,
As filthy as a bathroom,
As full of crazies as an insane asylum,
As packed with toys as the North Pole,
With lines longer than a Burmese Python....
That's Walmart.

And here is my p.m. class's poem:

AMC Theater
As big as the North Pole,
As loud as a cannon's roar,
As frigid as the Alaskan tundra,
As messy as my bedroom,
As exciting as an earthquake,
With floors as sticky as tar,
That's AMC Theater.

Mrs. Graves' Favorite Books

  • A Single Shard, by Linda Sue Park
  • Artemis Fowl, by Eoin Colfer
  • Bud, Not Buddy, by Christopher Paul Curtis
  • Bunnicula, by James Howe
  • Ella Enchanted, Gail Carson Levine
  • Harriet the Spy, by Louise Fitzhugh
  • Harry Potter 1-7, by J.K.Rowling
  • Holes, by Lois Sachar
  • Knee-Knock Rise, by Natalie Babbitt
  • Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott
  • Peak, by Roland Smith
  • Slob, by Ellen Potter
  • Standing in the Light, Dear America series
  • The Egypt Game, by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
  • The Great Brain series, by John D. Fitzgerald
  • The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, by C.S. Lewis
  • The Winter of Red Snow, Dear America Series
  • Tuck Everlasting, by Natalie Babbitt
  • Where the Red Fern Grows, by Wilson Rawls