U4_3 Assessment
Completion requirements
How Do Games Influence People?
Write an Acrostic Poem
All of the lines in the poem will relate to the topic word. For this activity, you are going to create a poem using the name of your favourite game. For example, if your favourite game is baseball, you would use the word BASEBALL to create your acrostic poem.
Unit 4
How Do Games Influence People?
Activity
Write an Acrostic Poem
An acrostic poem is a type of poem that uses the letters in a topic word to create lines in the poem.
All of the lines in the poem will relate to the topic word. For this activity, you are going to create a poem using the name of your favourite game. For example, if your favourite game is baseball, you would use the word BASEBALL to create your acrostic poem.
You can download the directions for creating an acrostic poem on the Assignment 4-3 page below.
When you are ready to begin your poem, go to ReadWriteThink website to start creating your acrostic poem.
Document: Assignment 4-3 Creating an Acrostic Poem
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Websites
When you are ready to begin your poem, go to ReadWriteThink website to start creating your acrostic poem.
- Click Get Started.
- Enter your name and your topic word (the name of your favourite game or activity). Click Continue.
- Brainstorm words that have to do with your topic word. They can start with the letters in the word, but they don't have to. At this point, you are just getting ideas about your poem. (If you run out of room on the website, you can always continue brainstorming on a piece of paper or a blank Word document.) When you are finished, click Continue.
- Start creating the lines of your poem. Use the words that you brainstormed to help you. Each line should have something to do with your favourite game or activity: how it makes you feel, what it is about, what it looks and feels like, what it smells like, etc. DO NOT CLICK "FINISH" YET!
- Go to the Acrostic Poem Checklist below to make sure you haven't missed any parts of the poem assignment.
- When you are completely happy with your poem, click Finish. You will not be able to change your poem anymore after you save it.
- Select Save Final.
Save
How to save a file for submission:
- If you have created a paper document, scan the document to your computer.
- Select your Documents folder as the location to Save In.
- Name the document. You will always name your documents in a similar way.
- Use the first letter of your first name, followed by your last name, then an underscore (_), then the name of the file.
- In this case, the file name is 4-3-poem. For example, if my name is John Smith, I would name my file jsmithla5_4-3-gamespoem.
- Click Save. Your chart is in your Documents folder.
Submit your file to the teacher:
- Submit your completed Assignment 4-3 Poem.
- Click on the Add Submission button to upload your document.
Add any new words you found in this selection to your Vocabulary Chart.