Journal Entry 49: Cinquain Poem

Ocean

beautiful, blue

also represents calm

flows around the world

Sea

Child

innocent, naive

imagination and creativity

brings smiles to people

Kids

Cry 

when sad

also relieve pressure

slides down your face

Teardrops

Journal Entry 48: Diamante Poem

Sun

warm, happy

sweat, shine, blind

yellow, fire, water, blue

cry, fall, drizzle

sad, cold

Rain

City

loud, busy

rush, pollute, compete

convenience, buildings, farms, fields

plant, celebrate, explore

clean, relax

Country

Life

exciting, long

explore, laugh, love

dream, passion, regrets, memories

relieve, regret, break

sad, alone

Death

Journal Entry 47: A Day In Your Life

           Its 6:50. A dim, yellow light shining through the curtains to a purple small bedroom, as a woman walk slowly into the room with her eyes half shut saying "Wake up! Wake up!". Yes, that is Amanda's mom. "UHHHH. Five more minutes please?" Amanda shouts. And then the mom walks back into the room after five minutes, shouting, "Wake up! Its already 6:55!" A small body slowly sits up from the comfortable and warm bed. She climbs down her bed and slowly walk to bathroom with her eyes fully shut. Shivering as she opens the hot water. "Ahh. This feels good." She starts to rub her hair with a special shampoo so hard that her head starts to hurt, and put on some lavender soap. After taking a wonderful bath and brushed her teeth, its 7:15. Finally fully awake, she rushes to her room thinking that she doesn't have much time to prepare for school. She puts her books into her purple book bag, dries her hair, comb her black hair until her hair is in a perfect shape that she wants. A good smell of breakfast slowly flows into her noise. And then she starts to carefully pick her outfit. She tries on many clothes until she is satisfy. Squeezes into her long jeans. And looked at the mirror for the last time to check is everything alright. She frowns as she touches her arm and her stomach. "Not thin enough." She thinks in her head, although all of her friends keep telling her she is very thin. 7:25, she rushes for school. Head rested on the side of the car, still sleeping, with her earphones in her ears, she slowly falls asleep again. 7:50 she is in school. Her face changes as soon as she walks into the school glass front door. A big smile, and two big eyes are now on her face. Greeting everyone she knows on the hallway, afraid that she will miss anyone.

Journal Entry 46: Acrostic

My own name:

A mazing but
M ust grow taller
A
N ame
Dat sounds like
A mandolin
L ikes to laugh and
I mmature and that is why I'm
N ever bored

One of my best friend's name:

J umpy but sometimes
E motional
A friend that I will
N ever regret to have
H er
S inging voice is also
U nique and beautiful like her

Journal Entry 45: How Do Images Convey Mood?

            To me, colors are very important in my life. I would really like to have a colorful life other than a black and white one. From when I was younger, when my mom bought something from the market for my sister and I, I will always pick first because I think colors really matters. If a thing is in a very ugly color, I will automatically thinks it is ugly. But if the same thing has another better color, I wouldn't think its ugly at all. My room is very colorful. The walls are purple. My bed is pink, my carpet is white and I have lots of other decorations in many different colors. Colors also change my mood. If I see grey, I will feel really sad. And if I see red or pick I get really excited. And I feel really happy when I see purple since it is my favorite color, and when I see blue I feel calm and happy. Sounds and music also can change my mood. If I listen to some happy and inspiring songs, I will feel happy. But when I listen to sad, slow songs, I get sad or calm. In stories or poems, if they describe the item or situation in many sensory details, such as the color and the shape and the sound that it makes, then I can really picture the item or the feeling that the narrator is trying to describe. I am a very imagery person, so if I start to picture the item, situation, or feeling out, I feel like I can really see or feel like the narrator.

Journal Entry 44: Images, Emotion, Mood

            It is purple, my favorite color. Not light purple, not violate, not blueish purple, but dark purple. The texture of the object is very very smooth but there are a lot of spikes coming out of it. It is made out of plastic and rubber, so it smells like plastic and rubber. It is very bouncy and soft. And when it bounces it makes this noise "bouinggg!" It also makes a loud noise when you sit on it and bounce on it. It is a very common thing in people's home but it is very uncommon to be seen in a classroom. You can poke it and your finger wouldn't hurt because it is soft.
            I believe by this point you can guess that it is a purple spiky bouncy ball. When I look at the ball, I think of my childhood. I used to have two of those kinds of bouncy balls. One with a handle on it and one with spikes on it. I really loved those two balls. I used to ride on the handle one around the house, using it as a transportation. I would bounce out to watch TV, bounce to talk to my mom, then bounce back to my room. It is just like a horse for me. The ball also helps my mom with yoga and let my dad sits on it when he is watching TV. So when I look at the ball in the classroom, flashbacks of my childhood comes into my mind. I believe the ball in the classroom is used for entertainment. When students get bored, we play with that ball. Or when we don't have a chair, we use that as a replacement.

Journal Entry 43: Elements of Poetry

            Poetry is a kind of writing. But to me, poetry is very different from other forms of writing. And since poetry is very different from other forms of writing, the elements of poetry is also very different from other forms of writing. Some elements of poetry that are very different and unique from other forms of writings are rhythm, stanza, meter, and rhymes. These elements are what make poetry so special and different from other forms of writings. Poetry uses stanza instead of paragraphs and they have a rhythm in it. And the rhymes in the poetry make the rhythm. But there are still some elements of poetry similar or the same as other forms of writings. For one example, all forms of writing have imagery. Imagery is when you describe and picture something in the audience's mind. Poetry uses imagery a lot. Another element that is shared between poetry and other forms of writing is plot. It is obvious that every fiction has a plot. But I believe that poetry also has plot. Even if a poem is just describing an animal, there is a plot about the animal's action and everything. And also like a fiction, poetry has setting too. Sometimes poets write it really obvious in poems bt sometimes they are not that obvious, but there is always setting for poetry.

Journal Entry 42: Poetry

            Poetry is a very ancient kind of writing that people write from a long time ago till now. Poetry are very different from other kinds of writing. They are different in many different ways. One example is that the format of the writing. Other forms of writings are mostly sentence after sentence, while poetry are mostly very short phrases each line. They are sometimes sentences and they are sometimes not sentences. And also other forms of writing usually use paragraphs for three or more sentences usually related to each other. While poetry use stanzas for a group of phrases or sentences. And another example of the difference between poetry and other forms of writing is that most poetry rhymes. And that is what makes poetry fun and interesting. Their similarities is that they both express something and they are all build up by words. Yes, poems can do the same things as other forms of expression. Poems can do things like make it sound more interesting or describe something very detailed that other forms of writing can't. And yes I do see poetry these days. I see them most in slogans or commercials and they use poems to try to attract customers.  And also in schools where students learn to write different forms of writing. Although you don't notice it, poems are everywhere in our life.

Journal Entry 41: Analyzing Visuals

            Artists and writers use special tools and styles to create different effects. Poets use figures of speech and man other kinds of techniques to create certain effects. Looking at the artwork in my textbook page 648 an 649, I can see how artists use imagery to create desired effects. When I look at the stylistic elements, I first notice the bold and colors and visible lines. I think I notice the colors first because I care a lot about colors. I hate things that are just plain black and white, I think life should be colorful. When I study the surface of the painting, I found out that the surface is rough. I think the the artist is using the texture to approach to the subject of how scary and powerful the dragon is. The artist uses bright colors such as orange and blue. The colors help convey the message that the dragon is special, powerful, and scary. The overall message is that the dragon is mighty and scary and powerful. The bright colors can really show the dragon. The waves in the background are repeated patterns. I think the artist include the pattern to make the dragon more obvious. The effect of the artist using two contrasting colors is that the dragon is more obvious and the audience can easily make a good impression on us. The artwork includes lines that are not blended or hidden to make the texture more rough.

Journal Entry 40: Poetry and Imagination

            Poetry often uses figurative language such as metaphors or similes to paint a picture for you. You have to use your imagination to picture a image in your head about what the writer is describing. The quote has a figurative meaning talking about how the narrator loves poems how he or she eats it. It is about how the narrator likes poems that when he or she is studying, reading, or writing a poem, he is very focus and doesn't get distracted easily. And that he is so excited and happy to study them that he he studies a lot of them. Images I see from this quote is someone literally munching on a book and he ink is dripping from his or her mouth to his or her shirt. And their eyes are really big and the mouth is smiling. I think the author use  this metaphor to show how much he loves poems to show us how he is so excited and likes to study a lot of them. He wants us to picture an image in our mind of him munching on them and so excited. And from his quote, I can really see how much he loves poems. I will use metaphors that compare them to how girls like shopping, a fat kid likes to eat, or how boys like video games.