First day of school Ice breaker 09 10

							Interview Question List:
   What is one thing you would like others to know
    about you?
   What is your favorite movie?
   What is your dream job? Why?
   If you could be anywhere but here, where would you
    be? Why?
   What is your feeling about school and the new school
    year?
   What car would you love to drive?
   Describe your appearance or sense of style in one
    sentence.
   Do you play or watch any sports?
   What is the best/worst book you have ever had to
    read?
   What are your favorite music groups?
Terms List Example:
1. onomatopoeia - words that sounds like the word to which it
     refers (ex: buzz, smack, zip)
2. simile- a comparison using "like" or "as" (as pretty as a picture)
3. couplet - two lines of poetry that rhyme ("Twinkle, twinkle, little
     star,/How I wonder what you are.")
4. alliteration- the repetition of same or similar consonant sounds
     ("Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eater...")
5. elegy- a poem written in remembrance of someone who has died
6. oxymoron- a literary device which combines two contradictory
     terms ("almost exactly twelve o'clock", "act naturally", "minor
     crisis", "jumbo shrimp")
7. euphemism: a mild of phase which substitutes for another which
     would be undesirable because it is too direct, unpleasant, or
     offensive. The word “joint” is a euphemism for the word prison.
     “W.C.” is a euphemism for bathroom.
8. hyperbole: a figure of speech in which an overstatement or
     exaggeration occurs. (All teenagers think about is sex, drugs,
     and rock and roll.)
9. metaphor-a comparison without using like or as (The angry man
     was a tornado of action.)
                    The Legend Has Died
Here lies Mrs. Brown today
She’d be in bed reading David Sedaris if she’d had her
   way.
Instead she’s gone and I’m here to tell
She loved punk music and dressed pretty swell.
There are lots of things she would have liked to do
Such as watch Sixteen Candles again or work in a zoo.
So sad she has died and will never know how great
It would have been to drive an Audi R8.
She told me she was excited to start the school year
And for all of these reasons I now shed a tear.