Poetry outloud- why I chose my poem

I chose my poem, Eating Together because I liked the title and the name just got my attention. Since I like cooking I really liked the poem and how the author describes what they are having for lunch and how all the good smells come together. I think the poem isn't like some of the other poems that the other students are doing because I think that this poem is also about the author's father and how he's not with him anymore. This poem to me is a serious poem so even though it's about cooking it's also about his father.
The competition to me isn't that important because even though I want to win it's not a big deal to me. I don't think that I will win and I'm not planning on it because there are other people are better at reciting poetry than I am. To memorize my poem I just had to write the poem down again and again until I got it memorized. For me the easiest way for me to memorize something is to write down and do that until I have it memorized. I'm excited to see what people are going to do for the competition.

Three Poems by Robert Frost

The poem by Robert Frost that I liked the most was "The Road not Taken". "The Road not Taken" is about Robert Frost having to choose between two roads to take. His choices are the road that more people take or the road not taken. In the first stanza he says "...two roads diverge in a yellow wood and sorry I could not travel both". I think that he is explaining that he had a choice to make and he choose the road not taken because he was brave and wanted to be different by taking the road not taken as much.

I like this poem the best out of the three that we read in class because it has a good message that applies to everyone. You get stuck in a situation where you can go one way or you can go another way. I haven't actually had to choose between two different paths like the author of but I know that there are people who have been stuck in that situation. I think that everyone has or will have to choose between two different paths that they will have to take in their life. I think that this poem has a good message and anyone can learn from what Robert Frost is saying. Just because everyone elso took one road doesn't mean you have to.

The Movie

The scene that I imagined in my head was when Miss Mayella was explaining what happened with Tom Robinson and herself at court. I imagined Mayella to have mid length hair and she would be wearing an old dress and she would look dirty. But in the movie her hair was short and she was wearing a nice dress and she didn't look dirty, she looked clean. In the movie when she spoke she sounded very unclear, like she was making the whole thing up as she was telling the story. In the book I imagined that she sounded confident, like she and her dad had practiced what she was going to say. But, I did imagine her breaking down and falling apart as she was telling her story, which happened in the movie.

I thought that the actors did a good job in this scene even though it wasn't anything I imagined it to be. I thought that the person who played Mayella was good for the part because she did a good job making a big fit about what happened. I liked how every once in a while the camera would go to Bob Ewell and you could see the expression on his face while Mayella was talking. I think the scene was good even though it wasn't like I imagined it.