Write Your Own Cinquain!
Now it is time to write your own new cinquain here! Your cinquain can be about a person, a place, a time, or a thing!
Reply to the forum and write your cinquain there.
Look at this example:
BEGINNER
Pizza.
Red yellow.
Eating, licking, finishing.
I want to eat
more!
INTERMEDIATE
You can use these parts of speech to help you:
1 noun - Pizza.
2 adjectives - Red yellow.
3 gerunds - Eating, licking, finishing.
2 verbs - I want to eat
1 noun or adjective or adverb - more!
ADVANCED
Remember to full stops at the end of the lines! However, the fourth line runs into the fifth, so doesn't need a full stop!
Marks
Your teacher will give you marks like this.
10 - a perfect cinquain, 1,2,3,4,1 no mistakes
8-9 - a couple of mistakes, or not 1,2,3,4,1
7 - a good cinquain, but more grammar mistakes
5-6 - cinquain is too short
1-4 - cinquain is not finished
TIP - a good way to get higher marks is to ask your teacher to help check your work!