Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Paul Revere's Ride poem
Paul Revere's Ride (YouTube video of dramatic reading)
Mini Bio on Whitman - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nla-JDEp4jw&t=5s
Mini Bio on Langston Hughes - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inP76rkYUso
Mini Bio on MLK Jr- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ank52Zi_S0
Gifted Hands by Ben Carson - http://www.readnovelonlinefree.com/reading/Gifted-Hands-The-Ben-Carson-Story-7402/784034
ELA Project – Due Thursday, April 1, 2021
Option 1: Poetry Booklet & Rubric
Create a poetry booklet (on copy paper or construction paper)
Your Poetry Booklet can be a printed or hand written.
20 points - 10 Poems (the name of the poem and the author) - 10 different types of poems (Lyric, Ballad, Epic, Ode, Limerick, Free Verse, Sonnet, Haiku, Acrostic, Couplet)
20 points - 10 Definitions define each type of poetry type. ie: Ballad - song like poem
20 points - 10 Explanations describe why is this poem part of that specific genre.
20 points - 10 Illustrations drawing, the poem written out, print out of the cover/image
17 points - Table of Contents (at the beginning of your booklet, give the poem type/name and the page number it can be found on within your booklet)
3 points - Cover (your full name, the title Poetry Booklet, class period)
Bonus Points - write your own poem on the last page or back cover
Option 2 : Children’s Book
Create a 20-page children’s book (on copy paper or construction paper)
Your children’s book can be printed or hand-written. It should tell a story from beginning to end. (Think of your favorite children’s book you read when you were young).
5 points each - 10 pages will have images
5 points each - 10 pages will have text
Incorporate figurative language in your book. Underline or highlight the specific figurative language examples. For example : His eyes were as bright as the sun setting over the Utah desert. (simile)
Bonus points – read your children’s book to the class
Poetry Vocab - List 1
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Sestet - a group of six lines of verse
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Caesura- a break or pause in the middle of a verse line
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Couplet- a stanza consisting of two successive lines of verse
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Internal Rhyme - a rhyme between words in the same line
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Octave- a rhythmic group of eight lines of verse
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Ballad - A song or song-like poem that tells a story
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Epic - A long narrative poem that is written in heightened language and tells stories of the deeds of a heroic character who embodies that values of a society.
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Limerick - A very short humorous or nonsensical poem with five lines.
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Ode - A lyric poem, rhymed or unrhymed, on a serious subject. These are typically addressed to one person/thing
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Quatrain - A poem or stanza of four lines.
Poetry Vocab List 2
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Rhyme - The repetition of accented vowel sounds and all sounds following them in words that are close together in a poem.
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Sonnet - A fourteen-line poem, usually written in iambic pentameter
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Stanza - A group of consecutive lines in a poem that form a single unit. It is comparable to a paragraph in an essay.
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Haiku - Short poem of Japanese origins, frequently 17 syllables in length in three lines and about nature. (5 syllables, 7 syllables, 5 syllables)
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Free Verse - Rhythmical lines, usually unrhymed, that vary in length and follow no strict metrical pattern.
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Light Verse - Playful poetry that combines whimsy with mild satire. Nursery rhymes are light verse.
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Symbol - an object, person, or idea that stands for something beyond itself.
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Narrative Poetry - tells a story.
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Lyric Poetry - expresses personal thoughts and feelings; song-like or musical.
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Imagery - descriptive detail that appeals to the senses.
Notes on Poetry
A type of literature that expresses ideas, _____________________________, or tells a story in a specific form (usually using lines and stanzas)
Poetry Point of View
Author – The____________________ is the author of the poem.
Speaker - The speaker of the poem is the “______________________________” of the poem.
Kinds of Stanzas
_____________________= a two line stanza
Triplet (Tercet) = a three line stanza
_____________________= a four line stanza
Quintet = a five line stanza
Sestet (Sextet)= a six line stanza
_____________________= a seven line stanza
_____________________= an eight line stanza
Rhythm
The ___________________________ created by the ___________________________ of the words in a poem.
Rhythm can be created by meter, rhyme, alliteration and _________________________________
Meter
A _____________________ of stressed and unstressed syllables.
Meter occurs when the stressed and unstressed syllables of the words in a poem are arranged in a _______________________________ pattern.
When poets write in meter, they count out the number of stressed (strong) syllables and unstressed (weak) syllables for each line. They they repeat the pattern throughout the poem.
Free Verse Poetry
Unlike metered poetry, free verse poetry does _________________ have any repeating patterns of stressed and unstressed syllables. Does NOT have to _____________________________.
Free verse poetry is very conversational - sounds like someone ___________________________ with you.
A more modern type of poetry.
Blank Verse Poetry
Written in lines of iambic pentameter, but does NOT use ______________________________________________.
Rhyme
Words sound alike because they share the same _________________________ vowel and consonant sounds.
(A word always rhymes with itself.)
End Rhyme
A word at the end of one line rhymes with a word at the end of ______________________________________________
Hector the Collector
Collected bits of string.
Collected dolls with broken heads
And rusty bells that would not ring
Internal Rhyme
A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the __________________________________________________.
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.
From “The Raven”
by Edgar Allan Poe
Near Rhyme
a.k.a ___________________________________________________________________, close rhyme
The words share EITHER the same vowel or consonant sound BUT NOT _________________________________
Onomatopoeia
Words that imitate the _____________________________________ they are naming (for example: BUZZ)
OR sounds that imitate another sound
“The silken, sad, uncertain, rustling of
each purple curtain . . .”
Alliteration
__________________________________________________ sounds repeated at the beginnings of words
If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, how many pickled peppers did Peter Piper pick?
Consonance
Similar to alliteration EXCEPT . . . The repeated consonant sounds can be ____________________________ in the words
“silken, sad, uncertain, rustling .
Assonance
Repeated _____________________________________ sounds in a line or lines of poetry.
(Often creates near rhyme.)
Lake Fate Base Fade
(All share the long “_______________” sound.)
Refrain
A sound, word, phrase or line repeated regularly in a poem
Simile
A comparison of two things using “______________________, as than,” or “resembles.”
“She is as beautiful as a sunrise.”
Metaphor
A direct comparison of two unlike things
“All the world’s a stage, and we are merely players.”
William Shakespeare
Hyperbole
Exaggeration often used for __________________________________.
Personification
An animal given human-like qualities or an object given life-like qualities.
Symbolism
When a person, place, thing, or event that has meaning in itself also represents, or ______________________________, something else
Allusion
Allusion comes from the verb “__________________________________” which means “to refer to”
An allusion is a reference to something famous.
Imagery
Language that appeals to the ____________________________________________.
Most images are visual, but they can also appeal to the senses of sound, touch, ________________________, or smell.
Poetry
Use pg. 805-807 in Literature to complete the following:
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Narrative Poetry _________________________________________________________
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Lyric Poetry _________________________________________________________
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Poetic Form _________________________________________________________
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Poetic Purpose _________________________________________________________
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Sound Devices _________________________________________________________
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Imagery ______________________________________________________________
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Figurative Language _____________________________________________________
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Use pgs. 846-847 to complete the following:
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Subject and Theme: _______________________________________________________
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Lines and Stanzas: ________________________________________________________
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Hyperbole Poem
Summertime is Here
My tongue is a piece of sandpaper
I’m dissolving into a puddle.
I want to dive into a snowdrift
Though I’m sure that would befuddle
Open me up, my organs are cooked
I think I’m now well done.
You can fry an egg upon my brow
As I melt away in the sun!
Poetry by Sharon Hendricks
Creative Writing Assignment/Write your own Haiku or Comic Book
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Students will examine the characteristics of and write their own comics based on an already popular comic. |
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Haiku
A giant firefly:
that way, this way, that way, this --
and it passes by.
--Issa (1762-1826)
Haiku show us the world in a water drop, providing a tiny lens through which to glimpse the miracle and mystery of life. Combining close observation with a moment of reflection, this simple yet highly sophisticated form of poetry can help sharpen students' response to language and enhance their powers of self-expression. In this lesson, students learn the rules and conventions of haiku, study examples by Japanese masters, and create haiku of their own.
Or Write an alternate ending book
Poetry Test Study Guide
Test is Wednesday, April 12th
Definition of Poetry _________________________________________________________________________
Rhyme _________________________________________________________________________
Stanza _________________________________________________________________________
Onomatopoeia _________________________________________________________________________
Personification _________________________________________________________________________
Simile _________________________________________________________________________
Metaphor _________________________________________________________________________
Hyperbole _________________________________________________________________________
Assonance _________________________________________________________________________
Alliteration _________________________________________________________________________
Rhythm _________________________________________________________________________
Concrete Poem _________________________________________________________________________
Free Verse _________________________________________________________________________
Light Verse _________________________________________________________________________
Limerick _________________________________________________________________________
Quatrain _________________________________________________________________________
Free Verse _________________________________________________________________________
Haiku _________________________________________________________________________
Caesura _________________________________________________________________________
The goal of a poem (reason it was written) – Purpose
Identify the type of poem with
2 lines _________________________________________________________________________
4 lines _________________________________________________________________________
5 lines _________________________________________________________________________
6 lines _________________________________________________________________________
7 lines _________________________________________________________________________
8 lines _________________________________________________________________________
14 lines _________________________________________________________________________
Poets (identify the poet)
O Captain My Captain ________________________________________________________________________
Two Haiku _________________________________________________________________________
Harlem Night Song _________________________________________________________________________
Road Not Taken_________________________________________________________________________
Describe the following poems to describe the main idea, character(s), etc.
Secret Heart _________________________________________________________________________
Paul Revere’s Ride _________________________________________________________________________