Read the following article and answer these questions. Write your answer in EWC.

1- Where is Saint George’s day celebrated?

2- What gifts do you give to people on this day? When did this custom start?

3- Explain Saint George’s legend

4- What else do people celebrate on 23 April? Why was this date chosen?

 

Now we are going to write some poem for our school competition. Read the following:

What is a cinquain?

Adapted from http://www.abcteach.com/free/h/howto_cinquain.pdf

A cinquain poem has five lines. The word comes from the French cinq, which means five. Cinquains are similar to haiku in that the rules for writing them are based on syllables. However, we will work on an alternate version of the cinquain poem, often called a “word cinquain”. This cinquain is based on words, instead of syllables. “Word cinquains” have the following pattern:

Line 1 1 word

Line 2 2 words

Line 3 3 words

Line 4 4 words

Line 5 1 word

 

There are no specific rules about writing a cinquain other than that it must have five lines and the correct word count.

 

Here is an example taken from http://edhelper.com/ReadingComprehension_27_80.html

 

Tree
Sturdy, Tall
Climbing, swinging, playing
Fun among the branches
Maple

 

Go to the following site to read some more cinquains:

http://hrsbstaff.ednet.ns.ca/davidc/6c_files/Poem%20pics/cinquaindescrip.htm

 

Now write your own poem