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boys and girls so now we're going to start working on our next lesson for our poetry okay so last week our lesson was about looking at objects with different eyes are poet eyes or our poet glasses okay this week we're going to be working on how to write our poem using what we call line breaks okay so I talked to you about last week how poems are different because they're not necessarily written like stories right you don't always have to have a complete sentence with a. Or a punctuation at the end you don't have to write one sentence on one line the way you might do in a different story for this we were going to talk about listening for line breaks okay you're a right to poems and going to write your poem using your line break okay you're going to please the words that are important on a line and you want to leave them either with one other word by themselves okay so that's what I'm going to show you today about how to do and you're still going to pick an object and you're still going to use your adjectives except this time you're going to use your line breaks as you write okay so you can pick a person a place or a thing for this as well as for line breaks K this first poem is written without my brakes this one do you do the same home if you noticed okay the first one is written without line breaks this one is with my break so this one is without all right and the bottom one is with all right so I'm going to read them to you I want you to hear how I read it differently if you see we fill up these long lines okay and you write all your words LOL mind here not so much okay aquarium by Valerie Worth here is it how it sounds when you don't have line breaks like a goldfish flash gold and silver scales they slick and slip away under green weed but round brown Nails stick to the glass and stay now I want you to listen to How I read it with the line breaks okay goldfish flash gold and silver scales they slick and slip away under green weed but round brown snake stick to the glass and stay hey if you hear at the end of each line I paused okay so that's what the line break does it makes you pause when you read it and it makes you put emphasis on the word that are important so we're talking about an aquarium so words like goldfish are important right flash or important stick to the glass is important right they slick and slip away just be one word but you want to create an image or picture in your readers head okay so you leave those alone on the line and right and then you break it down so and then you have light stay right and that you pause at the end all right so with line brace that's how you do it okay and I'll show you one more sample of with line breaks again so this is with all right with line break so see how this poet Christine O'Connell George use her line breaks to tell us about trees okay so does the title of the poem is better into trees summer feels the empty space between two trees with a hammock okay so I was only one sentence that took up one two three four five six lines because she wanted put emphasis on different thing like summer empty space between two trees okay gives you that break so that you can figure out how to emphasize those words all right so you're diamonds this week and to write two more poem that will go in your book can't using a person a place or thing so we can be another object can be person it can be a place maybe you really like the beach so you can do the beach okay do you want to read about mom or dad any dad because Father's Day is coming in a few weeks or right so pick any coupons this week not 3 okay so two things are going to practice using those mine brace to help you and the important

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