Educational Game (?) # 2

Chicktionary

This is also a FREE app on iTunes. For those of you familiar with BOGGLE its the same thing, just with chickens!

http://www.clubbing.com/Pages/Games/GamePlay.aspx?game=Chicktionary&mode=play&a=msngames&gid=5

You'll need to access using IE as the game doesn't work on Firefox. Post the letters you were given as a comment below, write the longest word you were able to find in the allotted time, and use it in a sentence.

E.G.

1) TPONLEVEDME

2) DEVELOPMENT

3) This website has been an interesting development.

The Road Not Taken: Robert Frost

The following poem is one of my favourites. I studied it for my HSC and it was on this morning's Preliminary HSC Exam for our Year 11 students.

THE ROAD NOT TAKEN

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim
Because it was grassy and wanted wear,
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I marked the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

Robert Frost

1) View the YOUTUBE movie below or at the link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w62ptBOsc7U&feature=fvw
2) Using PHOTO STORY 3 create a 30 second reflection on the poem and its message.

WHY IS THE SITE USELESS?

Apparently there are a few students who think that the site is somewhat useless. I am not looking at reprimanding these boys, as everyone is entitled to their opinion. What I do need though is a reason why?

So I open this to comments from all, what do you want to see on this site? What is it missing? What needs to be improved? By all means be as honest as you wish. I'd rather know now, so we can use this for the benefit of all!

FYI

Pageviews: By Countries

Australia 355

South Korea 12

United States 5

Canada 5

Look's like the WWW has lived up to its name! We have now gone global!

Five Poetry Prompts

Five Poetry Prompts

Thanks @ http://www.writingforward.com/prompts-2/poetry-prompts/five-poetry-prompts-a-writing-exercise

Use any combination of five word prompts to create a poem. Repeat the process so that you use two different sets of words in two different poem types.

Poetry Prompt #1

* steel
* theory
* saving
* imitation
* chisel

Poetry Prompt #2

* mirror
* hazardous
* dandelion
* famine
* committed

Poetry Prompt #3

* tapestry
* sings
* eye
* din
* collide

Poetry Prompt #4

* slippery
* fantasy
* casting
* chameleon
* lives

Poetry Prompt #5

* deadline
* boom
* children
* shallow
* dirt

Post your poetic creations as a comment below. When you have completed your poems you are to THEN make ONE comment on the poem of another student in class. You could make a comment about the purpose of the poem, the techniques used or ask some form of question about the poem that the composer can then answer.

The Simpsons: Season 20 Episode 6

Homer and Lisa Exchange Cross Words

Lisa discovers her amazing talent for doing crossword puzzles and becomes an expert cruciverbalist, and she soon enters a citywide crossword puzzle tournament. Homer, short on cash after abandoning his "Sweet Conclusions" professional break-up artist business, goes to cheer Lisa on at her tournament and discovers an underground crossword puzzle betting ring. In the ultimate betrayal, Homer profits from betting against Lisa in the championship match. When the heartbroken Lisa finds out, Homer must spell out his love for her with a little help from New York Times crossword puzzle editor Will Shortz and master crossword constructor Merl Reagle.

http://www.puzzle-maker.com/CW/

HAVE FUN!