1. Poetry

2. Lesson 1: Introduction to Poetry
Lesson Objectives
Lesson 1: Introduction to Poetry
What is a poem?
Figurative language

3. What is a poem? - Dictionary.com
A verbal composition designed to convey experiences, ideas, or emotions in a vivid and imaginative way, characterized by the use of language chosen for its sound and suggestive power and by the use of literary techniques such as meter, metaphor, and rhyme.
- Dictionary.com

4. What is a poem?
Creative
Imaginative
Expresses ideas

5. What makes a good poem?
Figurative Language

6. Similes Comparison between two unlike things Uses like or as
Figurative Language
Similes
Comparison between two unlike things
Uses like or as
Example: The baseball player sprinted to first base like a rocket.

7. Similes: Examples in poetry
Figurative Language
Similes: Examples in poetry
Compares many things to chocolate cake
Using “like”
“Friends are like chocolate cake You can never have too many. Chocolate cake is like heaven -Always amazing you with each taste or feeling. Chocolate cake is like life with so many different pieces. Chocolate cake is like happiness, you can never get enough of it.” - Unknown author

8. Metaphors Also compare two unlike things Do NOT use like or as
Figurative Language
Metaphors
Also compare two unlike things
Do NOT use like or as
Example: The baseball player was a rocket sprinting to first base.

9. Metaphors: Examples in poetry
Figurative Language
Metaphors: Examples in poetry
“Hope” is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul— And sings the tune without the words— And never stops—at all…
Emily Dickinson
Compares hope with feathers

10. Figurative Language
Alliteration
Repetition of the first consonant sounds in neighboring words
Example: The drooling, daring, dog stole food from the table.
Doesn’t always have to be consecutive
Example: Daren decided to do his dreaded homework after school.

11. Alliteration: Examples in poetry
Figurative Language
Alliteration: Examples in poetry
She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that’s best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes: Thus mellowed to that tender light Which Heaven to gaudy day denies.
Repeats consonant sounds

12. Onomatopoeia Spell out sounds Sound like what they mean
Figurative Language
Onomatopoeia
Spell out sounds
Sound like what they mean
Examples: Crack, Boom, Pop

13. Onomatopoeia: Examples in poetry
Figurative Language
Onomatopoeia: Examples in poetry
Uses many sound words

14. Personification Gives human qualities to objects ideas or animals
Figurative Language
Personification
Gives human qualities to objects ideas or animals
Example: The trees roared during the storm.

15. Personification: Examples in poetry
Figurative Language
Personification: Examples in poetry
"Ah, William, we're weary of weather," said the sunflowers, shining with dew. "Our traveling habits have tired us. Can you give us a room with a view?"
They arranged themselves at the window and counted the steps of the sun, and they both took root in the carpet where the topaz tortoises run.  -William Blake
Sunflowers performing human actions

16. Hyperbole Extreme exaggeration for emphasis
Figurative Language
Hyperbole
Extreme exaggeration for emphasis
Example: I must have eaten a million pieces of candy on Halloween!

17. Hyperbole: Examples in poetry
Figurative Language
Hyperbole: Examples in poetry
The poem exaggerates the amount of garbage that has piled up.
Does this video show the exaggeration in the poem?

18. What is the format of a Cinquain?
Lesson Objectives
Lesson 3: Cinquain
What is a Cinquain?
What is the format of a Cinquain?
Examples

19. What is a Cinquain? Short DOES NOT rhyme Japanese style
Originated in 1909

20. Format of a Cinquain Five Lines Line one: Title (noun), 2 syllables
Line two: Description, 4 syllables
Line three: Action, 6 syllables
Line four: Feeling (phrase), 8 syllables
Line Five: Title (Synonym for title), 2 syllables

21. Format of a Cinquain Baseball Bats, balls, helmets
(2 syllables)
Bats, balls, helmets
( 4 syllables)
Hitting, fielding, pitching
(Six syllables)
The greatest game in the whole world
(8 Syllables)
Action

22. Colorful leaves fall from trees
Example
Beautiful, crisp fall
Colorful leaves fall from trees
Best time of the year

23. Example
Ice cream Cold and yummy Licking its sweet richness It makes me feel so much cooler Refreshed

24. Example
Puppy Ornery, naughty Growling, jumping, chewing A playful bundle of trouble Boxer

25. Example
Penguin Black, white Waddling, swimming, leaping A tuxedo in the cold water Frozen

26. Your Turn Take out your poetry packet and draft two cinquains.
Remember to use the correct format!

27. What is the format of a Haiku?
Lesson Objectives
Lesson 2: Haikus
What is a Haiku?
What is the format of a Haiku?
Examples

28. What is a Haiku? Japanese poem Present tense Usually focuses on nature
Does NOT rhyme

29. Format of a Haiku Three lines long First line five syllables
Second line seven syllables
Third line five syllables
An old silent pond...
(Five syllables)
A frog jumps into the pond,
(Seven syllables)
Splash! Silence again.

30. Tasty, red apples Are juicy and delicious Picked from the branches
Example
Tasty, red apples Are juicy and delicious Picked from the branches

31. Your Turn Take out your poetry packet and draft three haikus.
Remember to use the correct format!

32. What is the format of a limerick?
Lesson Objectives
Lesson 4: Limerick
What is a limerick?
What is the format of a limerick?
Examples

33. Distinctive rhythm and rhyme pattern
What is a limerick?
Distinctive rhythm and rhyme pattern
Funny
Short
Rhyming

34. Format of a Limerick Five lines First, second, and fifth rhyme
Pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables
  U S U U S U U S      U S U U S U U S      U S U U S      U S U U S      U S U U S U U S
Five lines
First, second, and fifth rhyme
Third and fourth lines rhyme

35. Example There was an old man from Peru
Who dreamt he was eating his shoe.
He awoke in a fright
In the middle of the night
And found it was perfectly true.

36. Example There once was a fellow named Tim
whose dad never taught him to swim.
He fell off a dock
and sunk like a rock.
And that was the end of him.

37. Your Turn Take out your poetry packet and draft two limericks.
Remember to use the correct format!

38. What is the format of an acrostic?
Lesson Objectives
Lesson 5: Acrostic
What is an acrostic?
What is the format of an acrostic?
Examples

39. What is an acrostic poem and what is the format?
First, last or other letters spell a word
Does NOT have to rhyme

40. Example

41. Example

42. Your Turn Take out your poetry packet and draft two acrostics.
Remember to use the correct format!

43. What is the format of an concrete poem?
Lesson Objectives
Lesson 6: Concrete
What is a concrete poem?
What is the format of an concrete poem?
Examples

44. What is an Concrete Poem and what is the format?
Describes something concrete
The words form what is being described
Can be written on any topic

45. Example

46. Example

47. Your Turn Take out your poetry packet and draft a concrete poem.
Remember to use the correct format!

48. What is the format of an color poem?
Lesson Objectives
Lesson 7: Color
What is a color poem?
What is the format of an color poem?
Examples

49. What is an Color Poem? About your favorite color
Uses analogies or similes
Uses five senses

50. What is the format of a Color Poem?
Every line starts with (your color) is…
Each describes one of the five senses

51. Example

52. Your Turn Take out your poetry packet and draft color poems.
Remember to use the correct format!

53. Lesson Objectives
Lesson 8: Free Verse
What is a free verse?
Examples

54. What is a free verse? Can be about ANYTHING May or may not rhyme
No set meter

55. Your Turn Take out your poetry packet and draft a free verse.
Remember to use the correct format!