1. Today we are WORKING silently.
THURSDAY 1/26
YOU NEED:
Pencil
Binder- turned to “WRITING” with plenty of notebook paper
WARM-UP:
Today we are WORKING silently.
If you need help/inspiration/ideas, see the resources at the front of the room.
Remember, if you don’t have poetry ready, you’re not invited to Poetry Café tomorrow.
If we finish today, we will have a few share the last 10 minutes of class. 

2. TYPES OF POETRY: BALLAD/LYRIC BLANK/FREE VERSE HAIKU
This type of poem has a rhyming pattern and is usually accompanied by music.
A ballad rhyme scheme is usually ABCB.
BLANK/FREE VERSE
This is unrhymed poetry and usually written in iambic pentameter. 
The lines can be composed of any meter. 
HAIKU
This type of poem is made up of three lines with the first line having five syllables, the second line having seven syllables and the third line having five syllables. 
Most Haiku poems are usually centered on nature themes.

3. TYPES OF POETRY CONT’D 4. SONNET 5. LIMERICK
A poem in iambic pentameter and is made up of fourteen lines. 
English sonnets use quatrains and couplets with this pattern. Rhyming pattern is ABAB CDCD EFEF GG. 
Most sonnets are now written with the a-b-b-a, a-b-b-a rhyme scheme and the sestet is either c-d-e-c-d-e or c-d-c-c-d-c.
5. LIMERICK
This poem consists of five lines and has a very distinctive rhythm. 
It follows a rhyme scheme of AABBA, with the first, second, and fifth rhyming lines being longer than the third and fourth. 
Limericks are often done with humor.

4. Poetry/Songs that express emotion, love, heartache, feelings
BALLAD/LYRIC POETRY
Poetry/Songs that express emotion, love, heartache, feelings
James DeFord
Italian Sonnet by James DeFord, written in 1997:
Turn back the heart you've turned away
Give back your kissing breath
Leave not my love as you have left
The broken hearts of yesterday
But wait, be still, don't lose this way
Affection now, for what you guess
May be something more, could be less
Accept my love, live for today.
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5. FREE VERSE- UNRHYMED AND UNMETERED – FREE!!
A NOISELESS PAINTED SPIDER- Walt Whitman
A noiseless patient spider, I mark’d where on a little promontory it stood isolated, Mark’d how to explore the vacant vast surrounding, It launch’d forth filament, filament, filament, out of itself, Ever unreeling them, ever tirelessly speeding them.
And you O my soul where you stand, Surrounded, detached, in measureless oceans of space,……. Till the bridge you will need be form’d, till the ductile anchor hold, Till the gossamer thread you fling catch somewhere, O my soul.
(A Noiseless Patient Spider by Walt Whitman)

6. HAIKU- WRITTEN IN 3 LINES: 5-7-5 (SYLLABLES)
Basho Matsuo
Here are three examples of the haiku of Basho Matsuo, the first great poet of haiku in the 1600s:
An old silent pond...
A frog jumps into the pond,
splash! Silence again.
Autumn moonlight—
a worm digs silently
into the chestnut.
Lightning flash—
what I thought were faces
are plumes of pampas grass.

7. SONNET- 14 lines in meter
The sonnet form is old and full of dust And yet I want to learn to write one well. To learn new forms and grow is quite a must, But I will learn it quickly, I can tell.
And so I sit, today, with pen in hand, Composing three new quatrains with a rhyme. The rhythm flows like wind at my command. The A-B-A-B form consumes my time.
But I’m not done until there’s fourteen lines. One ending couplet, after three quatrains. I’ve tried to write this new form several times. The effort’s huge; I have to rack my brain.
But I persist, my fourteen lines now done I wrote my poem; my sonnet work is won.
by Denise Rodgers

8. LIMERICKS- 5-6 lines; short syllable lines followed by longer syllable lines
A certain young fellow named Bee-Bee Wished to wed a woman named Phoebe. "But," he said, "I must see What the clerical fee Be before Phoebe be Phoebe Bee-Bee
Here's to the chigger, The bug that's no bigger Than the point of an undersized pin; But the welt that he raises Sure itches like blazes, And that's where the rub comes in!

9. BRAINSTORMING PROMPTS: Remember your assignment expectations!
Write a poem where you begin to reveal something mysterious –one…line…at….a…..time:
You see them…
And…
“Hey,…”
“What’s the…”
If you wanna…
2. Write a poem with the them: I am from…
3. Write a sappy love poem… to a person, yourself, an object, etc. It can even be silly!
4. Write 3 Haiku poems:
Line one: 5 syllables
Line two: 7 syllables
Line three: 5 syllables
5. Write a recipe poem- use phrases like a recipe would: Give me… Add a dash of… with a touch of… stir in… etc.
6. Write a persona poem where you take on the “life” of a non-living object and write a poem from their perspective