You will write a poem about autumn... use the five senses (see, hear, smell, touch, taste) to enrich your writing. Afterwards, you will write this on a leaf and decorate it.

POEM RUBRIC:

• Alliteration: use repeated beginning vowel/consonant sounds (example: twirling, tumbling and trembling the timid leaf made its way toward the earth)
• Personification: giving human qualities to an object (example: the leaves danced and skipped as the wind gently played soft music)
• Simile: comparing two objects using like or as (example: the leaves painted the ground like colored rain)
• Active verbs and adjectives (example: use colors such as russett, copper, gold, vermillion, scarlet and words such as: skipped, crackled, snapped, silky, crunchy )

This page last updated on July 16, 2006