1. Poetry Brownsville Independent School District English Language Arts Specialists

2. Knowledge and Skill Statements K – 12
Reading/Comprehension of Literary Text/Poetry.
Students understand, make inferences and draw conclusions about the structure and elements of poetry and provide evidence from text to support their understanding.

3. Reading/Comprehension of Literary Text/Poetry Students understand, make inferences and draw conclusions about the structure and elements of poetry and provide evidence from text to support their understanding. Students are expected to:
Eng IV/3(A) evaluate the changes in sound, form, figuarative language, graphics, and dramatic structure in poetry across literary time periods.
Eng III/3(A) analyze the effects of metrics, rhyme schemes
end, internal, slant, eye), an other conventions in American
poetry.
• Eng II/3(A) analyze the structure or prosody (e.g., meter, rhyme,
scheme) and graphic elements (e.g., line length, punctuation, word position)
in poetry.
• Eng I/3(A) analyze the effects of diction and imagery (e.g., controlling
images, figurative language, understatement, overstatement, irony,
paradox) in poetry.

4. Reading/Comprehension of Literary Text/Poetry Students understand, make inferences and draw conclusions about the structure and elements of poetry and provide evidence from text to support their understanding. Students are expected to:
8th Grade/4(A) compare and contrast the relationship between the purpose and characteristics of different poetic forms (e.g., epic poetry, lyric poetry).
7th Grade/4(A) analyze the importance of graphical elements (e.g., capital letters, line length, word position) on the meaning of a poem.
6th Grade/4(A) explain how figurative language (e.g., personification, metaphors, similes, hyperbole) contributing to the meaning of a poem.

5. Reading/Comprehension of Literary Text/Poetry Students understand, make inferences and draw conclusions about the structure and elements of poetry and provide evidence from text to support their understanding. Students are expected to:
5th Grade/4(A) analyze how poets use sound effect (e.g., alliteration, internal rhyme, onomatopoeia, rhyme scheme) to reinforce meaning in poems
4th Grade/4(A) explain how the structural elements of poetry (e.g., rhyme, meter, stanzas, line breaks) relate to form (e.g., lyrical poetry, free verse).
3rd Grade/6(A) describe the characteristics of various forms of poetry and how they create imagery (e.g., narrative poetry, lyrical poetry, humorous poetry, free verse).

6. 3rd Grade (A) describe the characteristics of various forms of poetry and how they create imagery (e.g., narrative poetry, lyrical poetry, humorous poetry, free verse).
Supporting Standard Reporting Category 2
Understanding and Analysis of Literary Texts /The student will demonstrate an ability to understand and analyze literary texts.
• th Grade (A) explain how the structural elements of poetry (e.g., rhyme, meter,
stanzas, line breaks) relate to form (e.g., lyrical poetry, free verse).
Supporting Standard Reporting Category 2
Understanding and Analysis of Literary Texts / The student will demonstrate an ability to understand and analyze literary texts.
• th Grade (A) analyze how poets use sound effects (e.g., alliteration, internal rhyme, onomatopoeia, rhyme scheme) to reinforce meaning in poems.
Supporting Standard Reporting Category 2
Understanding and Analysis of Literary Texts / The student will demonstrate an ability to understand and analyze literary texts.

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8. Poetry
a type of literature that expresses ideas, feelings, or tells a story in a specific form
(usually using lines and stanzas)
Poetry asks you to feel something (that’s the heart part), not just think about it.

9. POETRY SPEAKS TO THE SENSES
Can be short or long
• Manages to say a lot with just a few carefully chosen words
• Is intended to be read aloud
• Is personal and can be about anything and everything
Poetry is Everywhere!
• A very unique form of literature
A special way of capturing experiences or feelings
Good poetry uses vivid imagery
Comes in all shapes and forms
POETRY SPEAKS TO THE SENSES
Poets create word pictures that build an image in your mind.

10. POINT OF VIEW IN POETRY POET The poet is the author of the poem.
SPEAKER
The speaker of the poem is the “narrator” of the poem.

11. Line:
a unit of meaning
(1 word, a phrase, or even a sentence)
Stanza:
lines that are grouped together
(usually each has the same number of lines)
Rhyme:
The repetition of sounds at the end of
lines or with in lines (rhyming pattern)
Rhyme Scheme:
The pattern of rhyme in a poem
(aabb or abab)

12. Rhythm, Rhyme and Repetition
Rhythm and Rhyme are some of the most important structural elements in poetry.
Repetition actually is the basis of many poetic devices.

13. Rhyme The basic definition of rhyme is two words that sound alike.
The vowel sound of two words is the same, but the initial consonant sound is different.
Rhyme helps to unify a poem; it also repeats a sound that links one concept to another, thus helping to determine the structure of a poem.

14. Sensory language – is writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the five senses. Senses in language Language can make reference to any or all senses by deliberate use of appropriate sensory words. Note that these can be both direct description and also sensory metaphors.

15. SIGHT
Auditory senses are triggered by reference to loudness, timbre, actual words spoken, and so on.
He shouted harsh approval
at the sound of her
pure warbling Italian soprano.
The visual sense is referenced by talking about light and dark, shades and hues, visible shape and appearance.
Her brilliant red blouse
fitted her slim figure
like a glove.
SOUND

16. FEELING TASTE AND SMELL
Our gustatory senses are closely linked and are often used in the metaphoric sense.
She could stomach his words
no longer and smelled
a bitter rat in his intent.
Smell in particularly is powerfully evocative sense and can easily trigger early memories.
FEELING
Tactile feeling and emotional feeling are closely connected, as we sense our emotions as tensions and other physical bodily experiences.
His heart thumped
as he grasped the meaning
of her smile.
TASTE AND SMELL

17. SENSORY IMAGES
Help the reader see, hear or feel things. Sensory images are details that appeal to the senses. Imagery may appeal to any of your senses.

18. Literary Terms
Literal language – the ordinary language of everyday
Figurative language – use of devices such as figures of speech (similes, metaphors, hyperbole, etc.)
A good poem and a good song have a lot in common. In both cases, the writer needs to find common ground with their audience to gain their sympathy and maintain their interest.
Lyrics

19. Expresses Personal thoughts and Emotions
Types of Poetry
Lyrical Poetry
Expresses Personal thoughts and Emotions
Narrative Poetry Poetry-Tells a story
Humorous Poetry funny
Free Verse Poetry-does not have a regular pattern of rhythm or rhyme

20. Classes of Poetry Narrative – tells a story
Has a plot and characters, BUT only focus one part of the story
The selection and arrangement of these events make the poem unique.
Has been popular for centuries beginning with the English ballads
Lyrical – expresses personal thoughts, feelings, and/or emotions
Short and musical

21. Poem:
a piece of writing often having a rhyme
or rhythm which tells a story or
describes a feeling
Free Verse:
poetry that does not have a regular
pattern of rhythm or rhyme
Literal Language:
a way in which you express yourself by saying exactly what you mean
Characters:
the people or animals that act like
people in poems that tell a story

22. Free Verse Written without rhyme or rhythm
Is very conversational – sounds like someone talking with you
Some do not use punctuation or capitalization, or other ways of breaking the rules of grammar.
A more modern type of poetry
Use your “senses” when writing

23. Narrative Poetry
Narrative Poetry is a poem that tells a series of events using poetic devices such as:
Rhythm
Rhyme
Compact Language
Attention to Sound
A narrative poem tells a story, but it does it with poetic flair! Many of the same elements that are found in a short story are also found in a narrative poem.

24. Elements of Narrative Poetry
character
setting
conflict
plot

25. LYRIC Lyric Poetry A short poem
Poetry in which the speaker reveals personal thoughts and feelings.
Comes from the Greek word lyrikos, a short poem sung to the music of the lyre, a small harp-like instrument.
A short poem
Usually written in first person point of view
Expresses an emotion or an idea or describes a scene
Do not tell a story and are often musical
(Many of the poems we read will be lyrics.)
Lyric Poetry

26. What’s in a poem? I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
A poet paints a picture or expresses a feeling with words.
Poems are usually written in a brief songlike manner.
The poet uses unusual combination of words to describe
people, places, and things.
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
by William Wadsworth
I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o’er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

27. free verse rhyme scheme stanza line literal language
characters metaphor
free verse rhyme scheme
stanza line literal language
personification poem rhyme
simile figurative language

28. Fun poetry websites Resources ELARS/SLARS CSCOPE HMH Write Source
Resources
ELARS/SLARS
CSCOPE
HMH
Write Source

29. Why Change?
Thank You! The End