SBA Prep: Analogies and Stanzas in Poems

Today we practiced analogies.  An analogy is a comparison between two words or ideas.  A colon is used to symbolize words in the analogy.

For example.....

In:Out::Up:Down
If you were to say that out loud it would be: In is to Out as Up is to Down.

Here is the worksheet that p.5 must do for homework for Wednesday night: Analogy Worksheet. P.1 can choose to do it for extra credit and because it is good to practice analogies.

Here is a fun game you can play about analogies.

We also learned that a stanza is a collection of lines in a poem.  How many stanzas are in the following poem by Shel Silverstein?

Where the Sidewalk Ends
from the book "Where the Sidewalk Ends" (1974)

There is a place where the sidewalk ends
and before the street begins,
and there the grass grows soft and white,
and there the sun burns crimson bright,
and there the moon-bird rests from his flight
to cool in the peppermint wind.

Let us leave this place where the smoke blows black
and the dark street winds and bends.
Past the pits where the asphalt flowers grow
we shall walk with a walk that is measured and slow
and watch where the chalk-white arrows go
to the place where the sidewalk ends.

Yes we'll walk with a walk that is measured and slow,
and we'll go where the chalk-white arrows go,
for the children, they mark, and the children, they know,
the place where the sidewalk ends.