Poetree
What is the season described in Poetree?
Spring
What is the definition of the word Spring?
The season between winter and summer; the season when plants and trees begin to grow.
What is the subject and predicate in the following sentence?
Sarah went on a walk in the dark, cold forest.
Sarah is the subject
went on a walk in the dark, cold forest is the predicate
What is poetry?
A type of text written by a poet.
What is the name of the article we read in this arc?
Spring in Bloom
Is Poetree a book that tells a story or a book that gives information? How do you know?
A book that tells a story because it is about characters who do not exist in real life.
What is the definition of the word Blossom? (there are two different definitions we learned for this word)
1. to produce flowers
2. to change, grow and develop fully
What am I missing from my sentence?
Is fluttering in the cool breeze.
a subject
lines
What are the first flowers to bloom each year?
snowdrops
The tree
What is the definition of Socratic Seminar?
a discussion based on texts.
What am I missing in my sentence?
Jessica's dog Baxter
A predicate
True or false. Poems always rhyme.
False. only sometimes
What is a bulb?
a complete, tiny plant wrapped in enough food for the plant to grow leaves and a flower.
Who is really responding to Sylvia?
Walt
What is the definition of subject?
who the sentence is about
What does it mean to revise your writing?
Revising means to make changes to improve the ideas and structure of a piece of writing
What type of poem follows the format of 5 syllables, 7 syllables, and 5 syllables?
a Haiku
What is the name of the forest flowers that grow in March and April?
Dutchman's breeches
What type of poem was Sylvia and Walt learning how to write?
a Haiku
What is the definition of predicate?
what the subject is doing.
What does it mean to edit your writing?
Editing means to correct mistakes in the words and sentences of a piece of writing.
Where did Haiku poems originate from? What do Haiku poems celebrate?
the originated in Japan and celebrate the seasons
Desert plants burst into bloom when ________________ comes.
Spring rain