Journal 50: Tanka Poem

I am a student

A good, responsible one

I do my homework

Although sometimes I miss them

I try to do all of them

I like basketball

I play it with my classmates

They all like it too

A lot of people play it

It is very popular

I like playing games

I like them because they're good

They are interesting

There are many kinds of games

I like every one of them

Journal 49: Cinquain Poem

Hank Chau

A good student

Responsible and kind

He is a very nice classmate

Friend

Basketball

A sport

Interesting and fun 

I play it everyday

Sports


Spanish
A language
Fast and interesting
I take Spanish classes
Espanol

Journal 48: Haiku

I have a good friend.
Sometimes annoying and bad,
But still my good friend.


I like basketball.
It is fun and cool to play.
I really like it.


I was late today,
But I still got into school.
Because I take bus.

Journal 47: Diamante Poem

Hot

warm comfortable

exercise  swimming  sweat

fire       sun       ice        rain

raining  snowing  blowing

freezing uncomfortable

Cold

Teacher

intelligent nice

teaching grading correcting

student office parents teacher

learning listening working

responsible polite

Student

Parents

responsible strict

teaching showing caring

baby grandparents toys parents

learning playing crying

innocent cute

Baby

Journal 46: Acrostic

Hank Chau is a student,
Any kind of student.
Never upsets his parent
Knowing what will happen.
Causing no troubles at school,
He looked into the homework pool,
And saw a learning fool.
Unfortunately, he was the fool.


Yeti, the Abominable Snowman,
Eats up every man and woman
That passes through its mountain.
Inhabits in the Himalayas.

Journal 45: List Poem

Saturday Morning math homework,
Listen to music and watch NBA.
Play my PSP for a while,
Go on facebook and skype and smile.
Play with my cousin until night,
Annoy my cousins till the next light.
Sunday Morning math class,
PAS homework after that.
Review each subject till dark,
Try to make myself more smart.

Journal 44: My List

1. Do my math homework the whole day
2. Listen to music
3. Play my PSP
4. Go on Facebook and Skype
5. Play with my cousin
6. Annoy my cousin
7. Go to math class
8. Go home and watch NBA
9. Do PAS homework
10 Review each subject

Journal 43: Elements of Poetry

When we write a poem, we use a lot of techniques such as alliteration, assonance, metaphor, onomatopoeia ... These techniques help the poem to become more beautiful. In my poem, I am going to use rhymes. When sentence rhymes, they give the reader a feeling that the sentence is complete and nice. These elements are like the ones in stories. In stories, there is a plot which makes the story interesting, there are conflicts which are problems that characters have against another character, there is the resolution where the conflicts are solved and the stories ends. Foe example, the poem the highwayman is like a story. The highwayman was in love with the land lords daughter, but at last, he died under the army's bullet. This story is a poem, put it also has a plot, conflicts and a resolution.

Journal 42: Ode

For the ode that we are going to write in school, my topic will be "My Watch". I chose this topic because I like my watch, I wear it almost everyday, and I can write a lot of things about my watch. For example, I can write about how it tells me the time, how it is important, how it helps me organize my time, how it wakes me up in the morning and tells me to go to school... There are a lot of things that I could write about my watch. Other things that I could write about my watch is it's appearance. My watch is blue with a big piece of glass that shows me the time, date and the day of the week. It has a blue circle surrounding the glass and a black part that can hold on to your wrist. Although I like my watch very much, it is getting older and older, and one day, my watch will stop ticking when it runs out of battery.

Journal 41: Poetry

There are many types of writing, for example novel, stories and essays are ones that everybody has seen. Poems are different from other forms of writings because they can express feelings very well. For example, poems can express the feelings of the poet while most essays can't. Poems are also different than other types of writing because they are concise. Poems are short and meaningful while some stories are boring and long. Although poems are different from other types of writing, they also have s lot of similarities.Both poems and essays express the authors opinion and describe a thing. A poem is also similar to a song. It is similar to a song because they both have a rhythm. A lot of poem rhymes just like how lyrics in a song rhymes. A poem can express a person's feelings to things using only a few words. Although not a lot of people write poems now days, we can still see them in daily life. Poems are in advertisements, songs and a lot of things we see in our daily life.