Poetry Day 4

A Teacher's Lament A Teacher’s LamentBYKALLI DAKOSDon’t tell me the cat ate your math sheet,And your spelling words went down the drain,And you couldn’t decipher your homework,Because it was soaked in the rain.Don’t tell me you slaved for hoursOn the project that’s due today,And you would have had it finishedIf your snake hadn’t run away.Don’t tell me you lost your eraser,And your worksheets and pencils, too,And your papers are stuck togetherWith a great big glob of glue.I’m tired of all your excuses;They are really a terrible bore.Besides, I forgot my own work,At home in my study drawer. Just like in other writing poets often try to invoke a mood through their poetry. Moods can include sad, happy, silly, sarcasm, anger... What mood do you think this author is trying to convey in their poem, "Teacher's Lament?" Honeybees (A poem for Two Voices)By: Paul Fleischman Poems for Two Voices Queen Bee Lays eggs Is bathed Has the Best of all Lives Fed Works until done laying Worker Bee Has the Worst of all lives Works all day Takes out the trash Larva detail Makes wax "A Valentine for Ernest Mann" By: Naomi Shihab Nye. What do you think about this poem and why she wrote it? Do you think poems hide? How? Would you have written a poem for Ernest? What do you think about the Valentine's Day present?