This week in eighth grade

As those of you who care already know, we're working on poetry. We're finding examples of commonly used literary devices like rhyme, alliteration, assonance, and so forth in our textbook, McDougal Littel's The Language of Literature, and we're just beginning to learn to imitate the rhyme and meter of the poetry we read.

In the course of preparing for this unit, I've used several online dictionaries and a number of online song lyrics databases, but here is one site I found particularly fun. I've always loved Silverstein, and it's nice to see that his fanbase lives on.

P.S. Turn the sound on before you link over.