Journal Entry 50: Tanka Poem

Tanka Poem of River

Clean and clear river,

Flow smoothly through the valley.

Clear like a mirror,

Reflect your smile when you smile,

Shine when lights irradiate.

Tanka Poem of Dog

Dog is our best friend,

Comfort us when we're angry,

Protect their master,

Seize the pests in the houses,

Be the guardian as well.

Tanka Poem of Homework

Homework is demon,

Torture us when we are free,

I spent times on it,

And spent efforts on homework,

Finally, I finish it.

Journal Entry 49: Cinquain Poem

Cinquain of Perry the Platypus

He 

is platypus.

Perry the Platypus.

A secret animal agent.

Awesome!!

Cinquain of Cookie Monster

Monster,

who likes cookies

named the cookie monster.

Often eats chocolate cookies.

Chubby.

Cinquain of Dolphin

Dolphins,

smart animals,

have beautiful singing.

They are also quite smart.

Lovely.

Journal Entry 48: Haiku

Haiku of Elmo

There is a Elmo

His friend is Cookie Monster

They are so awesome

Haiku of Phineas and Ferb

Phineas and Ferb

With Perry the platypus

keep the world safely

Haiku of Resident Evil

Resident Evil

Which is about the zombies

is a nice movie

Journal Entry 47: Diamante Poems

Diamante Poem of Meat & Vegetable

Meat

Reddish, Boneless

Eat, Poke, Swallow

Beef, Pork, Romaine Heart, Cabbage

Fracture, Chop, Cook

Green, Fleshy

Vegetable

Diamante Poem of Ice & Flame

Ice

Cold, Slippery

Shiver, Melt, Freeze

Ice-cream, Snow sculpture, Fire, Chemical Reaction

Flicker, Burn, Flash

Hot, Intense

Flame

Diamante Poem of Book & Computer

Book

Hilarious, Mysterious

Read, Rip, Keep

Fiction, Novel, Mac book, Windows

Play, Type, Destroy

Helpful, Technical

Computer

Journal Entry 46: Acrostic

Today you will write an acrostic poem. Start by writing the letters of your first and last name down the left margin of your paper. Then use those letters to start short sentences or phrases about yourself. When you finish the poem about yourself, write another one about someone else using the same form. Choose anyone you want, real or fictional.


Rock music is one of her favorite type of music.
Easily distracted by something funny.
Need to pay attention on class.
Energetic after waking up at the morning.
Entertained people by saying funny words or sentences.
Can get a good grade if she studied hard.
Have many friends all over the world.
Amazing person like everyone else.
Nothing can stop her.
Great friend to be with.


Real or Fictional:


Spongy with many pores on his body.
Patrick star is his best friend.
Oxygen does not required for him.
Need more new outfits.
Generally, he is a cute character.
Entertain every children.
Bring many laughs to adult, too.
Ocean's pineapple is his house.
Best cartoon character in the whole world.

Journal Entry 45: List Poem

In our last journal, we wrote about a list that we do or like, then we have to wrote a poem with this list. I wrote about my day in school. Here it goes, the poem about my day in school:

The first class of my day in school is algebra class,
all we have to do is finish algebra worksheet all period.
It is important because it determines did I pass,
and I am serious.

Chatting with my friends,
goofing around,
until the school ends,
or heard the bell sound.

During a bunch of class,
I was daydreaming.
Simply not paying that much attention on class,
poor me.

Go on Facebook and Skype is my everyday business.
I also chat with my friend on Facebook and Skype,
with lots of non-carelessness.
without anyone of them, I will died.

It is usual to see me playing my game while I'm writing my homework.
Or wasting my time on watching TV.
It cause me loads of work to do after watching my friend flirt.
But I'm still playing Facebook with Tetris.

Listening to music makes my day.
It helps me to calm down.
Whenever the song started with a Hey!
Everyone started to count:
One, Two, Three!!!
We shout !!

Journal Entry 44: My List

1. Finish Algebra worksheets all period.
2. Chatting with my friends.
3. Goofing around.
4. Not paying that much attention on class.
5. Daydreaming.
6. Go on Facebook and Skype.
7. Chat with my friends on Facebook and Skype.
8. Play Tetris on Facebook.
9. Playing my game while I'm doing my homework.
10. Wasting my time on watching TV.
11. Listening to musics.

Journal Entry 43: Elements of Poetry

Poems are like stories; they both have a plot, setting, characters, and theme. But the elements that make up a poem are different than the elements that make up stories. The elements of poetry are figurative language, rhyme, theme, imagery, plot, characters, and settings. The elements of stories are plot, characters, setting, and conflict. As I list some of the elements of poem and stories, they shared the most common elements in common stories. Plot, characters, setting, and conflict all that stuff.

The example which I will provide is called Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage Out.

Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout

Would not take the garbage out!

She’d scour the pots and scrape the pans,

Candy the yams and spice the hams,

And though her daddy would scream and shout,

She simply would not take the garbage out.

And so it piled up to the ceilings:

Coffee grounds, potato peelings,

Brown bananas, rotten peas,

Chunks of sour cottage cheese.

This is few lines in Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage Out. The character is Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout. The conflict is Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout wouldn’t take the garbage out. The plot of this poem is all the lines in this poem; if you understand the meaning of the poem, then it would be easier to understand the plot. Finally, the setting, obviously is in Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout’s house.

Journal Entry 42: Ode

My ode is going to talk about my writing teacher in HAS (Hsinchu American School), but also my geometry teacher. His name is Mr. Porter. The worst thing about him is that his room is always dark, moist, and has a stinky smell. Although he is 70 something, and he is a old man, but he has a smell on his body. I know that saying a person's body smell isn't right, but the body smell on Mr. Porter is the smell that would only smell it on a old guy. While we're having his class, he would yell at us if our paper isn't in the format of MLA. In his geometry class, I almost fell asleep while he is talking. I did say many things about him that is negative, but sometimes he is a nice, peace, friendly, kind old man when we are not in class. Mr. Porter always welcome us to his room and start a chess game or card game, even when he has loads of work to do. When he knows about I am transferring to this school (Pacific American School), he shows his concern to me and said, "you are always welcome to send me an email, and I will send you back a respond when I read your email." Although Mr. Porter has many negative personality, but his positive personality is more than his negative personality. He is not just a teacher, he is also our friend.

Journal Entry 41: Poetry

The differences between poems and other forms of writing are that the poem often use symbolic words to represent the actual meaning of the word; but other forms of writing use simple words to tell the story. Generally, poems has more rhymes, but the other forms of writing doesn't. The poems do have some similarities   with other kinds of writing. Some poems are basically telling the story to the reader, so as other kinds of writing. Also, the poems can do the same thing as other forms of expression, such as telling the story through the lines in the poems, and changing the mood of the poems by using different tones. Still, some poems can do things that other forms of expression can't. Poems can be a long poetry, but songs can't; although story can be a novel, but the difference between novel and poem is that poem has rhyme at the end of the lines, the story don't. Not all the poems are all-power than other forms of writing. There are something that the poems can't do. Other forms of writing, such as stories, can convey the concrete information in the stories; but, the poems are more abstract to infer the actual meaning. In the present world, we can still see the poems around us. Songs are the transformation of the poems. They both express the emotions, inform the experiences, and create images in our head.