1. Warm-Up: Poetry: Structure/Form
Choose one of the poems you’ve written to continue working on and make better for your final poetry evidence grade and answer the following questions:
Ode to an object, Memory, Fear, Vivid verbs, Abstract to concrete, choice
1. How and why did you structure the poem the way you did?
Do you remember giving any thought to how you would make the poem look on the page?
What certain words start or end lines? Why?
Do you have spaces between lines? What’s the reason for more than one stanza, or only one stanza?
Do you have punctuation? Why?

2. Structure
Structure: The deliberate choice to separate parts of a poem into stanzas or keep as a whole, or draw attention to certain lines for an effect to enhance the poem and make it a poem
Line break: where the poet chooses to end a line and start a line
End-Stop
When a line of poetry ends with a period or definite punctuation mark
Enjambment
When the idea or phrase in a poem is carried over from one line into the next
Stanza: group of lines separated by white space

3. “Ode to a Waffle”
Ms. Weinfurter
Inspired by Neruda’s “Ode to My Suit”
Every morning, waffle,
you wake from your long slumber,
peek out
of the back corner of the freezer
to be toasted.
My stomach growls.
You are frozen with frosty edges,
so I
drop
you
into the toaster. Up
You pop.
Your checkerboard changes from
chilled to chewy.
Maple syrup swims happily around you.
Oh, frozen waffle.
You are stabbed with a fork.
Sliced with a knife
and disappear from the plate.
You do not make the news.
You are quickly forgotten, but
every morning,
I remember you.
Oh, frozen waffle,
I thank you.
I chose to separate stanzas by different actions or steps of my morning waffle routine.
Opening the freezer/waffle waking
Seeing the box “peek out”
My stomach’s response
Dropping into the toaster
Popping up
I chose to write “drop” and “you” on separate lines to emphasize the falling motion. I also wrote “up you pop” to create the effect of the sudden upward motion by putting “up” first as opposed to the typical sentence structure of “you popped up.”

4. Homework:. Unit 2 Vocabulary Quiz: Oct 24th/25th
Homework: *Unit 2 Vocabulary Quiz: Oct 24th/25th *Write your “Revised Structure” poem with at least 4 poetic devices & 1 structure choice
Learning Intentions:
ACT: ENGLISH/Organization, Unity, and Cohesion (ORG) 24-27:
ORG 504. Determine the best place to divide a paragraph to meet a particular rhetorical goal
ACT: READING/Text Structure (TST) 24-27:
TST 501. Analyze how one or more sentences in somewhat challenging passages relate to the whole passage when the function is subtle
ACT: WRITING/Developing Ideas (DEV) 7-8:
DEV 401. Provide adequate development in support of ideas; clarify ideas by using some specific reasons, details, and examples
ACT: WRITING/Organizing Ideas (ORI) 11-12:
ORI 601. Provide a unified, coherent organizational structure that presents a logical progression of ideas
Success Criteria:
Effectively apply knowledge and skills of poets and poems studied to make deliberate decisions about line breaks and stanzas to enhance your own poem

5. College & Career Readiness
ATL: Thinking skills
ACT
Creative-thinking skills: Generating novel ideas and considering new perspectives
Use brainstorming and visual diagrams to generate new ideas and inquiries
Apply existing knowledge to generate new ideas
Create original works and ideas; use existing works and ideas in new ways
Generate metaphors and analogies
ACT: ENGLISH/Organization, Unity, and Cohesion (ORG) :
ORG 504. Determine the best place to divide a paragraph to meet a particular rhetorical goal
ACT: READING/Text Structure (TST) 24-27:
TST 501. Analyze how one or more sentences in somewhat challenging passages relate to the whole passage when the function is subtle
ACT: WRITING/Developing Ideas (DEV) 7-8:
DEV 401. Provide adequate development in support of ideas; clarify ideas by using some specific reasons, details, and examples
ACT: WRITING/Organizing Ideas (ORI) 11-12:
ORI 601. Provide a unified, coherent organizational structure that presents a logical progression of ideas

6. Form and Structure
“The best words in the best order. Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.”
-Adrienne Rich

7. Collaboration Form/Structure:
“That’s L.A. Down There” by Sonya Sones
“l(a” by ee cummings
Rewrite each poem with specific attention to how you would use line breaks and stanzas to create form and structure that would help enhance the poem and provide additional meaning
Be sure to explain why!
Example:
Snow days melt a w y.
Line break and/or stanza choice
I wrote “away” on separate lines to emphasize the melting memories; similar to the way the snow would melt and the snow days had to come to an end, each letter seems to drip or melt away, coming to the end of the poem.

8. Ideas about form/structure for “That’s L.A. Down There”

10. Collaboration Form/Structure:
“That’s L.A. Down There” by Sonya Sones
“l(a” by ee cummings
Rewrite each poem with specific attention to how you would use line breaks and stanzas to create form and structure that would help enhance the poem and provide additional meaning
Be sure to explain why!
Example:
Snow days melt a w y.
Line break and/or stanza choice
I wrote “away” on separate lines to emphasize the melting memories; similar to the way the snow would melt and the snow days had to come to an end, each letter seems to drip or melt away, coming to the end of the poem.

11. Ideas about form/structure for “l(a” by ee cummings

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13. Unit 2 Poetry Evidence Assessment
Poetry slam is the competitive art of performance poetry.
It puts a dual emphasis on writing and performance, encouraging poets to focus on what they're saying and how they're saying it.

14. Independent Writing: “Form: Line Break & Stanza” Revised Poem
1. Choose one of your poems to revise for your “revised form” poem which will be your final evidence assessment for poetry
Ode, memory, fear, vivid verb, abstract to concrete, or choice poem
2. Make changes to your poem to include at least 4 poetic devices (for example: simile, metaphor, hyperbole, personification) and 1 form choice (a specific line break or stanza separation)
Use your poetic devices chart as a resource

15. Exit Slip:
The poem I am revising for the poetry slam is (ode, memory, fear, vivid verbs, abstract to concrete, list) because….
4 poetic devices I am using or plan to use include: 1. 2. 3. 4.
1 deliberate form/structure choice I am using or plan to use is:

16. Pair/Share/Review
Explain one way you used structure to enhance your poem (line breaks and stanzas)

17. “The best words in the best order
“The best words in the best order. Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.”
-Adrienne Rich