September, 2010 Project

The Realm of Fairy Tales

Please click on the following website and begin the webquest.

http://www-ma.beth.k12.pa.us/jhoke/jhwebquest/jhwebquest.htm

DUE DATE: October 18th, 2010

The Last Word of a Bluebird

This is a poem form. The original poem
written by Robert Frost. Please fill in
the blank lines. But! the poem must rhyme!
1. Go to http://www.rhymezone.com for help!
2. Paste the form into Kontactr (my email link.)
3. When complete, your name should be at end of poem.
4. Send to Ms. Silverbg.

As I went out, a _____________
In a low voice said, "Oh,
I was ______________________.
How do you do?
I just came to ________________
To tell _____________. Will you?
That her little _________________
Wanted me to bring you word
That the north wind___________
That made the ________ bright
And made ice on the trough
Almost made me______________
His _______ feathers off.
He just had to ________!
But he sent her ____________,
and said to be __________,
and wear her red _____________,
And look for skunk ___________
In the snow with an _________ -
and do everything!
And perhaps in the _____________
He would come back and _____________."

Patterned after "The Last Word of a Bluebird,"
by Robert Frost.

Poetry Month...

You will create a book of poems. Copy the site for Step 1.
In Firefox choose FILE + New Tab. In the New Tab that opens, paste the site from Step 1. Follow steps for this first assignment.

1. Open www.tinyurl.com/poetry12
2. Open Apple or Word doc
3. Select "All About Me," poem
4. Complete + Click "Create..."
5. Hilight poem + paste to Word Proc Doc (WP)
6. Save = First Name + Space + Date
7. Create "All I Want," poem (on same WP doc)
8. Repeat Steps 4-6.

9. Go to our new blog: ps85qtekkids.blogspot.com
10. Click "Kontact Me"
11. Type = Your name, Your email (or use my email: lsilver3@schools.nyc.org)
(If you use your OWN email, you get 25 extra points)
12. Subject = poem
13. Paste both poems in the message box
14. Type code
15. On bottom of page + Click "Send."

Ellis Island

Uncorrected Text

COPY to a word processing document and make corrections if needed.

Ellis Island, an imigration station in New York harbor, opens for the first time on January 1, 1892. During its' busyest days, thousands of immigrants entered the united States there. More then 100 million Americans can trace there roots to an ancestor who past through Ellis Island. Today, ellis island is a Museum. Museum visators can lern what it was like for 12 million immigrants who arrived in America at the turn of the century.