Requirements: 1. Three stanzas 2. Four lines each 3.

Two forms of figurative language simile, metaphor, personification, hyperbole, onomatopoeia, idiom, alliteration, 4. You have to have a rhyme scheme so that I know that you know what it is. 5. The more complicated the poem the more you guarantee yourself 100A on the entire project!!!!! 5. Use a rhyming dictionary it is on the blog. Marva Collins My Hero By: Ms. Watts

(Stanza 1) I have to teach students what is a hero, (A) Some say they dont know and their grade will be a zero. (A) I taught them to dissect their entire world in which they live, (B) To find someone that would help them give (B) Their all to achieve more with their life. (C) (Stanza 2) Some students will work harder than an ant (simile) and be successful, (A) While others will waste time and be regretful. (A) All you have to do is use your brain which is a boss (Metaphor), (B) And ignore others that will have you pay the cost (B) With a lower grade. (C) (Stanza 3) My hero is someone that is bigger than the sun, (Hyperbole), (A) She teaches challenged children better than anyone. (A) Like her I want to have the patience of Job, (B) Marva Collins definitely deserves to wear an academic robe1. (B) She is my hero and with her influence I will not be a zero. (C)
1 Academic

robe - noun: a gown worn by academics or judges

(To make the superscript numbers like I did behind ROBE and in front of ACADEMIC, type in the number where you want it, highlight it, then press the button the toolbar that looks like this: .)

This poem is dedicated to the students who have not discovered their hero. You have to dig deep and think about something that we really do not think about every day. Who is a person that makes you want to be a better person? Who makes you want to do better? My hero is Marva Collins. In 1975, a year after my birth, she started the Westside Preparatory School. Wikipedia had a quote that described her teaching, "I have discovered few learning disabled students in my three decades of teaching. I have, however, discovered many, many victims of teaching inabilities." She taught students that were deemed unteachable and taught them things that others thought they would never be able to learn. The students fought her, but she never gave up on them. As the years roll on for me as a teacher, I aspire to be more like her. My hero is Marva Collins.