Poetry uses figurative language to create that same effect! You and your group will work collaboratively in class during a "circle write" to create your own spooky Halloween poem!
Listen to the instructions carefully when they are presented and be sure to meet all of the requirements listed below.
REQUIREMENTS:
1) Each person in the group must write at least two lines
2) The poem must include the setting or speaker/subject pulled from the envelope
3) The poem must include one example of the figurative language device pulled from the envelope
Miss Ertle's example: "Black Cat"
The graveyard was dark like a night sky.
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The only thing I could hear was a cry.
A girl in the corner of the house.
Tears were falling down, The poor Miss.
maybe she was a tickster..?
I could hear a hiss.
I could tell it was something sinister.
A haunted house
ReplyDeleteas dark as the night -SM
Twisting halls
like a roller coaster -LL
candlelight as mysterious as my soul,
Breath as cold as my heart - SM
ghosts as cold as time
creaking as loud as a jet - ML
shadows shaped as vampires
can be your biggest fear - NL
Tyler Finley
ReplyDeleteThe ghost tries to roast me
so I told him he was a Turkey
MF
The ghost went pale and tried to be spooky
but he looked a bit poopy
Jack Walters
He came in my house and tried to haunt me
He turned into Lebanon James
Holden King
He became more white than a sheet
so I trhou wheat a him
MB The black ca wore a hat and always played with a base ball bat
ReplyDeleteKS She went to school and looked like fool then she left
LD Because she was too cool she had a crush on a pug
BH And gave him lots of hugs she always showed him lots of love
GG The next day he cries because she died,The train took her life right before she became his wife
His hart crumbled into pieces as he turned to the deceases
The two lovers turned to ghosts and disappeard into the heavenly coastsdis
Its such a horrifying fact that they died from the train tracks
A witch mixing potions(Cameron A)
ReplyDeleteas creepy as a flying broom
within a room sat the broom(Sydney F)
and in a split secondn it went vroom
Flying in the sky across the town(Taylor K)
The witch and the broom flew around
So loud was the sound as the broom flew around(Blake S)
Through the town onto the ground
The witch hopped off and said goodbye(Olivia M)
No more flying in the sky
The monsters wrath was haunting, it's darkened, grim spirit. C.S.
ReplyDeleteThe monster was a nightmare. He hid in the shadows under the moonlight. K.G.
Those big green eyes like emeralds or some other magical green gem. Z.A.
His gruesome, gnarled, rotten flesh, oozing horrifyingly unearthly liquid. T.B.
(Tatum F.) Teeth as sharp as a knife
ReplyDeleteSkin as pale as the moon
(Ana W.) Hiding in the shadows
Giving you nightmares
(Elbriko B.) The vampire sucks the boys blood like a juice pouch
(Billy) He stalks his prey and feasts on blood and he makes all the streets flood
(Gavin C.) As he savor the taste of the blood he waits the make someone elses life a nightmare
(Danielle J.) As mysterious as a foggy night
Creeping up behind you
White as snow (Jack Miller)
ReplyDeleteCold as Ice
Clean as day (Kerstin Frederick)
Wicked as a witch
Haunting like an asylum (Joey DuPont)
Casting a shadow
Wicked as the wicked witch of the west (Alex Knapp)
Dark as a black cat
Gruesome as a bad nightmare (Jade Surlier)
Magical as a dusty beastly house
Fast as a bullet (Shelby)
Horrifying as death
Ghost, Simile
The wind is a witch cackling creating a spell noise through the night
ReplyDeleteThe witch is an rotten apple
The witch is a cat
She is creeping through the night casting spells
The witch crackled like an hyena
The witch creeped through the fog
The witch found a dog in the fog
Then the dog attacked the witches leg
The witch limped away
Then the dog was never seen again
Tick tock witching hour begins
Then the witch goes back to wind again
Group #4
ReplyDeleteThe cat was talking to the skeleton. They had a 4 hour conversation. (Farah) The cat was spying on the sleeping pumpkin. The pumpkin was resting for the night's trick-or-treat rs. (Aubree) After the pumpkin rested, the cat woke the pumpkin up and prepared for the night. (Saleen) As the night went on, they got their costumes on and headed to the party. When they showed up to the party, everyone questioned why they were there. (Jaylin) Black cat was there to eat pizza with his friends. The fun never ends. (Jaden) The end. (Joseph)
A black cat speaks a language with its dark tail, with its sneaky walk and freaky talk, understanding him you'll fail.
ReplyDeleteHis glowing eyes are street lights, hiding in the night. With the ugly green, not snugly or keen, it will give you quite a fright
Don't even get me started on the eerie way they arch, like creepy bridges and freaky hinges, they screech, scratch, and leave marks.
A black cat speaks a language with its dark tail, with its sneaky walk and freaky talk, understanding him you'll fail.
Graveyard, graveyard, where are you at? (P.M.)
ReplyDeleteMY soul is mean, it is of a bat (P.M.)
The tombstones are haunting (M.Z.)
The black cat is taunting (M.Z.)
I feel of shrieking (K.W.)
I'm about to be leaving (K.W.)
The zombies are now aware (C.M.)
Get me out of this nightmare (C.M.)
-Payton McHugh, Mara Zahniser, Kamryn Wolf, Colton Miller
Sharp teeth and fangs, DG
ReplyDeleteWhite skin with a black cape, DG
A quiet mouse with cheetah speed, HB
A bat like thirst of blood needed, HB
The vampire was a dark figure, SP
As dark as obsidian, SP
Eyes dark like bottomless pits, EH
Fear wraps itself around its prey, EH
One look and chilling shrieks are heard, NP
No one left to tell. NP
Group #3
ReplyDeleteThe witch was as evil as Madam Lockton. The wart on her nose was as big as a skyscraper. She was as fat at a sock full of rice, her hat was sharp as a knife and her shoes as black as the night sky. This witch was out of the ordinary, she was triggered. She got so triggered, she barked like a cat. She was as loud as an elephant, as wild as a wolf. Unfortunately, her wildness killed her, but she still lives on as a cat.
Upior
ReplyDeleteEven the trees are shivering.
Scared of me.
(EM)
Tears. Tears everywhere.
I can see the light leaving her eyes as I take my first bite into her skull. (MO)
Red. Red everywhere. It glimmers in the moonlight.
I can’t stop once I have begun.
(BE)
I don’t like what I do, but it is my way of life.
I must accept myself for who I am.
(CG)
I can hear the leaves shivering as I walk away.
Swallowed by darkness.
(MM)
My eyes are wet with remorse. I’m not proud of myself.
In fact, I am scared.
Group #2 5th Hour
ReplyDeleteHaunted House
Memes are purple, as a dark night.
The haunted house is scary, like a man wearing a blouse.
The house is so scary
the mouse won’t come near the man in the blouse.
The mouse is also wearing a blouse, in the haunted house.
The wind whooshes like the storm outside the blouse man’s haunted house.
The blouse starts to decay
like Joey’s bloused haunted house mouse.
The mouse in the blouse needed a new haunted house,
It burned down.
Eerily creeping through the town
ReplyDeletelike a mysterious spirit stalking the countryside-EG
The cat is dark
Lik color of Maddie's soul-BN
The cat is as black as night
The cat scampers down the empty street-ES
Agile as a bat
The cat stealthily walked through the fog-TJ
He hissed and spitted
For this black cat was an evil cat-MK
Group #6
ReplyDeleteAs the door slowly engulfs me
I feel it is yearning for my presence.
I start to climb the stairs,
and they begin to scream in pain.
The floorboards creak when i stride forward.
Begging me to end.
Looking up, I see the plaster cracks with wear,
persuading ghosts to move in.
And once I took another step,
Boom! The doors slammed shut!
(Cameron S.) In the deepest hour of night
ReplyDeleteSharp fangs show, a glow of ghostly white
(Lily B.) They creep around in the haunting hour
chasing children with their wicked pour
(Josh P.) Yearning for blood, intentions crude
He is known to be a sinister dude.
(Kyle C.) In the whistling wind he flies through the night
causing shrieks thought the night
(Macy M.) A figure, mysterious, indeed he is
A vampire is what he is.
Group #4 7th Hour
ReplyDeleteThe witch was fat
The opposite of an aristocrat (Mitchell)
Although, the witch was a stealthy cat
That wears a black, pointed hat (Kate Conlan)
She has a mole on her nose
And warts on all ten of her toes (Annalee Appleman)
Her skin is a frog,
sitting on an old log (Lucy)
She lived in a house of rotting wood
The build, I must say, was not very good (Emily DeGrace)
Her eyebrows were not on fleek,
but they made one arched peak (Ian)
She was very old
and her hear was ice cold (Madi Kudzia)
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ReplyDeleteKya,Maddie,Brady,Kevin,Alexis
ReplyDeleteIt was a dark and scary night
The Graveyard was a quiet mouse K.C.
There wasn’t a shred of light
When the skeletons arose K.P.
The people ran with fright
The skeletons danced with delight M.W.
The zombie DJ ate gelatin
While dancing with skeletons. B.H.
Before the sun came up the skeletons went down
It was the end of the best skeleton dance party around.A.F.
The night was as dark as a burnt marshmallow
ReplyDeleteThe wind laughed as the tress danced
The leaves turn as yellow as the sun and the night as black as ink,
ReplyDeleteand the flame from the fires lick and kiss the night sky
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