Hebrew Homework

HEBREW HOMEWORK: AT LEAST ONE PAGE: YOU CHOOSE (1) THE POWER OF A RUMOR OR (2) DON'T BELEIVE EVERYTHING YOU HEAR/READ. DUE TUESDAY

Jed,

for homework for Mr. Lee, you have to put created creature in a desert and river/stream.
you must list at least 3 ways of how your creature adapts to the new enviroment; be it changing it's apperance or changing it's diet.

Sincerly, Harry

PS, it's due on Dec. 4!

Homework 6B

Math: rounding sheet for math for Mr G due tomorrow

Message to Arieh and Marc from poet David Greenberg

Thank you for sending the responses from those two students. Wow. They are mature thinkers and the quality of their writing was excellent. I'm impressed. And thank you for the photos.

It was a joy and an honor to visit your school.

With best wishes!
David

A Friend That's Gone

Where are you friend
With our time to spend
Its time to bond
But you don’t respond

It isn’t fair
That you’re up there
And I’m down here
Trying not to stare

Thinking about you
It was just us two
I know your there
Thinking it’s unfair

I can see you there
With you brown curly hair
Staring right at me
Trying to plea

As life moves on
We get closer and closer
And days go bye
But it just gets grosser and grosser

Where are you friend
With our time to spend
It’s time to bond
But you don’t respond

-noah-

Homework 6B

Lee math: estimation worksheet. estimate. NO calculator!

Your 6th sense

We all know we
only have 5
senses

Smelling, hearing, tasting, touching,
seeing. But your
wrong

Ill explain to you
why theres 6
senses

We can hear the
racket our brothers
make

We can see the waves crashing
against the sandy
shore

We can smell the
freshly baked fudge
brownies


We can taste the
sourness of a
lemon


We can touch the
scales of a
fish

Last one, your only
friend in the
dark

Your imagination. Your best
friend when your
alone

-Janine-

My response on David Greenberg’s presentation

When Mr. G told us that we would hear a writer talk to us I was actually quite happy, because I enjoy listening to writers give little pointers to aspiring authors like myself. I think that anyone at the assembly who was paying attention could have taken a lot out of David’s presentation, because he did it in easy kid language and he made sense. I think his poems are amazing in two ways, one he used great rhyming words but still maintained the flow that he wanted and two he cared about what he wrote.

I understand when he said it took him one month to write his poems because I know from experience that everything doesn’t just come to you at once and even if it does you can always make what your thinking more interesting on paper. Anyways when I write my short stories it also takes me one too two months to write it because it takes sometimes even over four copies to get one amazing piece of literature.

My favorite thing David said was the three components of writing because I really agree with them. I also never really think of what’s happening in my own family and when David mentioned it and gave examples, I thought of all the crazy things that have happened to me and my friends and how those crazy amazing things would make a great poem. David writes great poems/short stories hopefully I will too some day, but even right now I notice when I read back at what I write that my writing skills are maturing just like me and the world around us. Most of the things that David said I agreed with and it sparked apart of my brain that holds my writing.

For me writing solves all my problems good and bad. When I’m angry I write in a darker tone usually thinking of black, when I’m happy I write jumpy little poems with bright colors, when I’m sad I write about sad things like wars with the color grey in mind. Literature is everywhere you just have to look for it.

Arieh Leon Dales 6A

My Response on David Greenberg

When you hear you are going to go listen to author for an hour three things come to your mind. 1) BORING! 2) What am I going to do? 3) He probably this old guy who has no way of interacting with the crowd or knows nothing about kids!

Well in this case I thought all those things when Mr. G. told us we were going to see an author. I had already pre-Judged this man to be number three( old guy who has no way of interacting with the crowd or knows nothing about kids! ) was totally wrong!

Mr. Greenberg was the funniest guy I had seen in a long time! Not only did he make me laugh, but he actually taught me some things about being an author myself.

He taught me that you know you are a writer, once you can really care about your own writing. Now when he said this I thought to myself, “Wow, I must be a writer already.” Then once I thought about it for a few minutes, I really understood what Greenberg was trying to say. I think he was trying to teach us that you have to respect your writing and know when to stop writing and when to keep on going. He was trying to put through a message that told us not to just leave your note book in your locker or in your backpack, take it with you in your arms, don’t let the pages get crumpled, treat your writing like you would like someone to treat you!

I know it sounds silly but it true. Who knows how many pages of brilliant writing have gone into the garbage by mistake, crumpled up, ripped, or even simply blown away.

I felt David Greenberg was a creative, funny, Jewish, and a really inspiring man. I think we can all learn something from Mr. Greenberg.

Marc L.

The T.V.

The T.V.


What would life be without this device?
A dark hole, a disaster not once but twice!

You flick through the channels with smoothness and ease
without knowing how many takes happen to get the perfect sneeze!

Car commercials to T.L.C.
Lights camera action 1, 2, 3

Glaring at the glowing screen
watching that mesmerizing scene

you grunt and try to find the comfy spot on the couch
the you sit up and sulk into a typical American slouch

Oh no! Your brother has stolen the remote!
In the mean time you make a devious plan to strangle his throat

you hear mom yell beastly “ Dinner time”
then you scream back “one sec mom I gotta watch him get covered in slime”

what an amazing thing the T.V. is
it even shows you what’s up in Show Biz

You hear the old man say “ To much tv and your eyes will turn square”
and you say back “ Do you really think I care?”


What would life be without this device?
A dark hole, a disaster not once but twice!

By: Marc Levin

hi everyone are we supposed to write a response on David Greenberg due Monday or are we writing it in class?

-Shakaed

Help with 6A assignment

Hi Gang,

I want you to think back to David Greenberg's presentation and reflect on the parts that were important to you. What did he say that applies to your writing? What did you find interesting about his presentation? What can you use in your own poems? What surprised/interested you?

Looking forward to a good discussion on Monday.

PS I'm really enjoying reading your poems. Adam's poem on soccer and Mikaela's poem are very different, yet capture emotions wonderfully. Make sure you check them out, and tell them what you thought.

-Mr. G.

Mikaela's poem

Mikaela,

Your poem is a beautiful tribute. You've chosen such powerful words to express very strong emotions, and maintained such a nice sense of cadence and rhyme. This really is a moving piece.

-Mr. G.

The Game Is On My Line

the spinning blur of black and white
come to me
just a foot away
I know what to do
I take a step in the freezing rain
and soar into the air
I'm like a bird gracefully flying
I'm getting closer
i can almost touch the blur
i fall hard to the ground but
the blur breaks the the fall
i get up and kick the blur which is now a ball
and then soaring in the air it turns into
a spinning blur of black and white

Mikaela,

I only remember 1 and I think its this one,
to care for your writing

sorry I don't remember either

-Janine

david greenberg

hey guys what are the three steps david greenberg tought us thanks



-mikaela

Good Job!

Wow!
That was a really deep poem and it made a good sensory image.
I thought it was really nicely written.

-janine

Sorry,
I made a grammer mistake on my last entry, so the first sentance might not make sense :(

Marc L.

Wow!

Mac,

Wow! What a deep peom! I was think it is one of the best poems on our blog!

I love those types of poems!


Marc L.

love and death

Loved

to be in love

to care for someone

like they were a white dove.

To not be judged

by what he or she does

to care for someone just because.

But when someone dies

your love doesn't go away

it stays with you

for every next day.

It stays in your heart

until you die

passing that love

to the people nearby.

So the next generation

of love and death goes on

with still love in their hearts

for the people that are gone.

-Mikaela