Poetry Reflection

I learned that poetry helps you be more relaxed and also makes you think more about everything. I thought about normal things you just do during the day and also things that you see that you usually wouldn't think about, and that's how I got most of the ideas for my poems. I got the idea for Autumn, a poem I wrote, because I've had a long grudge against fall and writing a poem about it makes me feel better. I think I mostly relied on my writing about the object or thought to make my poems good but sometimes I used repetition like in all things have good. I think my poems were good and expressed my feelings or opinions about certain things. I also think I wrote my poems so that I could just write down my opinions and thoughts about normal things that we as people do. It made me think more and I liked that so because of this unit I will probably write more poems in the future.

Play script

Scene 1
(Newton sits in Physics class working teacher walks over to him.)
Narrator: In the year of 1665 Isaac Newton attended trinity college in cambridge england Teacher: Isaac You are the best student of this class
Isaac: Thank you, this is my favorite class and I think that I will pursue universal physics as my career.
(Isaac talks to classmate)
Classmate: Do you ever wonder what's out there, you know, in space
Isaac: Sometimes, but the bigger question is how it all works.
(person 1)
1: I need to talk to you in the hall for a minute.
Teacher:(walks back in) We are having a school wide dismissal because the plague has been detected in our town.
(Students start packing up)
(Isaac falls to knees and begins crying)
Drama scene: Isaac you need to get out of here, you need to go home
Isaac: this is my home
Teacher: but isaac you'll die
Isaac: If i leave here i'll be as good as dead
(teacher drags isaac out of class)
Scene 2: Apple Scene
1666
Narrator: In 1666 Isaac Newton continued his studies on physics at his house in Woolsthorpe. (in “home”)
(tossing globe)
Isaac: This is perplexing, why do these equations not add up. It makes no sense (mumble) i cannot think in here
(epic boss walking scene)
(newton walks outside with clip board)
(starts writing on paper under tree)
(dropping apple)
Isaac:thats it!!!!!!!!!!! If forces cause acceleration. there must be a force that makes objects accelerate toward the earth
Narrator: But newton didn't stop there, he wanted to create a universal law
Scene 3: Telling people about gravity
Narrator: In 1672 isaac newton gave lectures and educated people on this newly discoveredforce

Isaac: through my research I have discovered that all objects with mass exert a pull on all other objects with mass. That means that there must be a force between all objects.
Person 1: How did you arrive at this conclusion?
Newton: *Drops something* Why does that fall? There must be a force that pulls it down. I have come up with an equation to explaining this phenomenon fg= G m1 m2
d squared
(writes on white board in green marker)
isaac: D is the distance between the two objects, g is the gravitational constant, and m sub 1 and m sub 2 are the mass of the 2 objects.

Narrator: Isaac Newton died a well known man and his discoveries will always be remembered. 

Poems

Autumn
Sam Ryan

Poems about autumn
Are all about leaves
Or change
Or people
Or trees
Nothing interesting
Happens in fall
No fun
No games
No having a ball
You don't remember
What happens before winter
No swings
No rides
Not even bad splinters
It just turns out to be
That fall
Is the worst season of all
All other seasons have their fun
Summer is play
Winter is snow
And spring is new growth
But fall is dull
As a gray rock
It's like the night of the year
The rain in the weather
The loss amidst the wins
Autumn amounts to nothing
And never will.




Accomplishments
Sam Ryan

It's sad
That the best
Creations
Destroy themselves.
Our cities
Produce smog
Which covers
Their beauty up.
Giant empires
Get taken down
By the very people
Who live in them.
We humans
Are created
But we wear ourselves out
And die.
So much
Has been accomplished
And will soon
Be destroyed.
So enjoy it
While it last
Because its life
May not be long.




There is also 2 more poems at http://www.moontowncafe.com/ that I have submitted to the website poem contest. (The two contest poems are happier than these 2)

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Africa Blog post

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Evidence of Sucess Part 1

This is my evidence of success video part 1

PA Assingment

I'm gonna do an interlocking hand drum pattern with Baylis Mitchell.