{"id":58709,"date":"2011-08-24T00:17:05","date_gmt":"2011-08-24T04:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/58709\/cpc-challenge-preview-friday-fling-school\/"},"modified":"2011-08-24T00:17:05","modified_gmt":"2011-08-24T04:17:05","slug":"cpc-challenge-preview-friday-fling-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/58709\/cpc-challenge-preview-friday-fling-school\/","title":{"rendered":"CPC CHALLENGE PREVIEW: The Friday Fling Goes Back To School!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\" color=\"#ff0000\"><strong><em>This is a Special preview for the CPC Friday Fling poetry challenge. \u00a0Poems should be posted there when the challenge opens Thursday evening at 9 PM EDT.<\/em><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/s136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/Fling%20Posters%20and%20Awards\/?action=view&amp;current=FlingPoster82611-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/i136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/Fling%20Posters%20and%20Awards\/FlingPoster82611-1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"FlingPoster82611\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"6\" color=\"#999999\"><strong>Friday Fling #143 August 26th 2011<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\" color=\"#999999\"><strong>It&#8217;s that time again, when kids of all ages go BACK TO SCHOOL!  What does or did that mean to you?  Were you cool, or feeling the fool?  Calm and collected, or nervous in the service?  What did\/do you most or least look forward to?  What are your favorite recollections or expectations of the beginning of a school year? <\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/s136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/Fling%20Pics\/?action=view&amp;current=1pdc_BacktoSchool_prv.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/i136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/Fling%20Pics\/1pdc_BacktoSchool_prv.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\" color=\"#999999\"><strong>We&#8217;re going back to school in more ways than one, because we&#8217;re asking you to consider writing about past and present back to school thoughts, feelings, situations and experiences in the format known as Triolet!<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\" color=\"#999999\"><strong>A Triolet is an eight line poem consisting of five different lines.  The first line is repeated as the fourth and seventh.  The second line is also the last.  Line 6 rhymes with 2 and 8, while all the others rhyme with each other.  So the rhymescheme is ABaAabAB.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\" color=\"#999999\"><strong>Here&#8217;s an example:<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"3\" color=\"#999999\">Another school year has begun.<br \/>\nNew things to learn, new friends to meet.<br \/>\nHere comes the bully, run run run.<br \/>\nAnother school year has begun.<br \/>\nYou toil until your day is done.<br \/>\nYour butt sore from that hardwood seat.<br \/>\nAnother school year has begun.<br \/>\nNew things to learn, new friends to meet.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#999999\">Copyright August 23rd 2011 RGD<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\" color=\"#999999\"><strong>This week the Friday Fling writes Triolets about going back to school!<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/s136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/Fling%20Pics\/?action=view&amp;current=1pdc_BacktoSchool_prv-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/i136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/Fling%20Pics\/1pdc_BacktoSchool_prv-1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\" color=\"#999999\"><strong>Be sure to save time to read and comment in at least a pseudo-scholarly way on your fellow students Triolet term poems.  Then get off the bus and enjoy your weekend before you have to go back to school again Monday!<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"5\" color=\"#999999\"><strong>Fickle Finger of Fate Award for August 12th<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\" color=\"#999999\"><strong>Congratulations Dee!<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/s136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/Fling%20Posters%20and%20Awards\/?action=view&amp;current=5FAwardCert-3-80.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/i136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/Fling%20Posters%20and%20Awards\/5FAwardCert-3-80.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/photobucket.com\/images\/back%20to%20school\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/i801.photobucket.com\/albums\/yy292\/my_cre8tions\/9th-and-Bloom\/9B_bck2school.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Back To School Again Pictures, Images and Photos\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a Special preview for the CPC Friday Fling poetry challenge. \u00a0Poems should be posted there when the challenge opens Thursday evening at 9 PM EDT. Friday Fling #143 August 26th 2011 It&#8217;s that time again, when kids of all ages go BACK TO SCHOOL! What does or did that mean to you? 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