4 Great Poems Assignment
Directions: Use all the usable material from your writer’s notebook to craft your best four poems. Yesterday, you likely polished one of your list poems and your “In the Room” entry. Today, I want you to look to other writer’s notebook entries for inspiration. For example, you might write a dramatic monologue using the details you recorded about a time you were teased. Or you may elect to create a shape or concrete poem about any of the experiences you wrote about, particularly the entry we did about secrets.
Requirements:
Type your name on the page
Title all poems
Each poem must include two of the following:
a vegetable, a color, a piece of furniture, a toy, a piece of clothing, a liquid, a lie
Each poem must contain two of the following:
alliteration, onomatopoeia, repetition, internal or external rhyme
simile, metaphor, extended metaphor, symbol, personification, hyperbole
imagery, irony, vivid verbs, concrete nouns, a startling ending, pun, double meaning
Each poem must include PUnCtuaTion!
Possible Formats:
Concrete or Shape
“In the Room”
List poem
Persona Poem
Sonnet
Ode
Diamante
Free Verse
series of Haikus (3)
Sestina-(challenging)
letter
Use line breaks and stanzas to emphasize the meaning of your words.
DUE FRIDAY MAY 9th.
Be prepared to share at least one of your poems in class on Friday.
Enrichment credit: Submit one or more of your poems to Poetry Alive.
