Use context clues
LA.7.3.3.4
Apply appropriate tools or strategies to evaluate and refine writing
LA7.3.4.4
Use parts of speech correctly
Essential Questions: What are the characteristics of different types of poetry?
How does different writing techniques enrich poetry?
Writing Poetic Description
Can you describe what happiness really feels like or touching your baby's hand for the first time?
Can you describe the sweet smell of a newborn baby or how it feels to be a mother?
This is the job of a poet--to capture feelings and images with language. But poems are as differnet as poets themselves.
An original poem should
•focus on a single experience, idea, or feeling
•use precise sensory images in a fresh interesting way
•use figurative language such as similes and metaphors
•include poetic sound devices such as alliteration and rhyme to support the meaning of the poem
Green Book (8th grade)
P.253
Read the Predator
Create a graphic organizer showing the Vivid Verbs, Sensory Images, Sound Devices, and Figurative Language and the relationship to the eagle.
Using your book, define and give an example of the following literary terms:
figurative language, simile, metaphor, alliteration, rhyme, stanzas, imagery,sensory details, mood, and free verse.
P. 297
Read I Stepped from Plank to Plank
Answer the 4 questions.
P. 298
Read Child on Top of a Greenhouse
Create a Chart Like the one on page 296 to compare and contrast both poems.
Create a graphic organizer o show sensory details like the one on page 299 for each poem.
Now it is your turn. You are going to create a Poetry Book. This book will represent your knowledge about poetry and your ability to write poetry.
Each poem must be printed on poetry book paper and be accompanied by an illustration, hand drawn or computer generated. Your book must contain each of the following items:
•Cover (Illustrated and colored with title and author)
• Alliteration Poem
•Onomatopoeia Poem
• Tanka Poem
• Haiku Poem
•Acrostic Poem
• Concrete Poem
• Your favorite poem by an author, and illustration
Each bullet item is worth 25 points. A total of 200 points.
Alliteration-Alliteration repeats a beginning, usually consonant, sound over and over.
Write an alliteration poem of at least 5 lines. For example:
Will you wait. . .
While wild waters
Wipe whole worlds
away?
And a hundred white winters
Have withered gray?
Onomatopoeia: An onomatopoeia word is a word that sounds exactly like the sound it's describing. Write at least a five line example.
Oh Poor me!
I feel on the ground
Ker-plunk!
And landed in a garbage
dump
Pee-ew!
So I dusted myself off
Swat! Swat!
Tanka: Tanka is a form of Japanese poetry that depends on the number of lines and syllables instead of rhyme. This is the pattern:
Line 1=5 syllables
Line 2=7 syllables
Line 3=5 syllables
Line 4=7 syllables
Line 5=7 syllables
For example:
Hot cheesy pizza
Sausage and pepperoni
Round, warm, and spicy
Inviting me to sample
A slice that's most delicious
Write a Tanka poem following the pattern.
Haiku- Haiku is a form of Japanese poetry that depends on the number of lines and syllables instead of rhyme. This is the pattern:
Line 1=5 syllables
Line 2= 7 syllables
Line 3=5 syllables
Example:
Apples round and red
Hanging from full, green branches
Waiting to be picked.
Write a Haiku poem using the pattern.
Acrostic: An acrostic poem is one in which the name of a person, place, or thing is written in a vertical line. The poem is dev eloped from the beginning letter on each line>
Example:
Won't attack a human.
One wolf can't take down an animal.
Lives in packs.
Food is small birds or mice.
Write an acrostic poem.
Concrete- Concrete poetry is written in the shape of the topic of the poem.
Example:
I
am
a very
special
shape I have
three points and
three lines straight.
Look through my words
and you will see, the shape
that I am meant to be. I'm just
not words caught in a tangle. Look
close to see a small triangle. My angles
add to one hundred and eighty degrees, you
learn this at school with your abc's. Practice your
math and you will see, some other fine examples of me.
am
a very
special
shape I have
three points and
three lines straight.
Look through my words
and you will see, the shape
that I am meant to be. I'm just
not words caught in a tangle. Look
close to see a small triangle. My angles
add to one hundred and eighty degrees, you
learn this at school with your abc's. Practice your
math and you will see, some other fine examples of me.
Write a Concrete Poem.
Write an ABC Darian Poem.
Diamante Poetry: A diamante is a seven line poem, shaped like a diamond.
Line 1=one word (subject/noun that is contrasting to line 7)
Line 2=two words (adjectives) that describe line 1
Line 3=three words (action verbs) that relate to line 1
Line 4=four words (nouns) first 2 words relate to line 1 last 2 words relate to line 7
Line 5=three words (action verbs) that relate to line 7
Line 6=two words (adjectives) that describe line 7
Line 7=one word ( subject/noun that is contrasting to line 1)
Example:
square
symmetrical, conventional
shaping, measuring, balancing
boxes, rooms, clocks, halos
encircling, circumnavigating, enclosing
round, continuous
circle
symmetrical, conventional
shaping, measuring, balancing
boxes, rooms, clocks, halos
encircling, circumnavigating, enclosing
round, continuous
circle
Write a Diamante Poem.
7 th Grade-Red Book
Do the same Poetry Book assignment as 8th graders.
Book: p.33
Read If I Can Stop One Heart from Breaking
What does this poem mean to you?
Read The Pasture p. 197 and A Time to Talk p. 198
Analyze the poems with the graphic organizers on p. 196 and199
