Ms. Kerchner May 26

Go to the Gwendolyn Brooks poem, "We Real Cool" at the poets.org site.

Listen to the poet Gwendolyn Brooks read the poem. She explains what it is about and then she recites it.

What is the poem "We Real Cool" about?

What is unique about the way she reads this poem?

Go to the Shel Silverstein website

• Click: Low Bandwidth (it's faster!)
  • Click: Shel's Books
  • Click: Fallling Up
  • listen and watch "The Toy Eater"

What makes this poem humorous?

• return to Shel's Books
• Click: The Light in the Attic
• Click: "Backward Bill"

Continue to explore the Shel Silverstein website

or

Go to BrainPOP

• To loginto BrainPOP, the username is briscoems and the password is 7 sohier

Explore any topic of interest on BrainPOP, watch the video.

Write down the topic:

3 Things I learned:

If there is still time in class, you may go to Free Rice or visit the reading/ELA games.