1. Wednesday, February 2nd BELL RINGER:
What is one thing you LOVE about poetry, OR one thing you HATE about it? Explain why.
POETRY UNIT
Day 1

2. Let’s take some notes about poetry!
As we go through our poetry lesson, take notes on the note sheet that is provided for you.
Write this into your agenda:
Friday, March 18th-Poetry Quiz

3. What is Poetry?
In poetry, the sound and meaning of words are especially important.
Poetry communicates experience and feelings.
Brain Pop Poetry

4. Speaker The speaker is the narrator of the poem.
It is not always the author.
When we discuss poetry, we say, “The speaker might mean…”

5. Rhyme Rhyming words are words that make nearly the same sound.
In poetry, rhyming words are used on purpose to create a certain sound or feeling.
Example:
I don’t see the harm
In visiting the farm.
The yellow eyes glowed
by the side of the road.

6. Rhyme Scheme The pattern of rhymes used in a poem
The pattern can be labeled using letters
Example:
A horse and a flea and three blind mice A
Sat on a curbstone shooting dice. A
The horse he slipped and fell on the flea. B
“Whoops,” said the flea, “there’s a horse on me!” B

7. Line
Usually one row of words equals one line of poetry; it does not always end with punctuation
How many lines are in this example?
The Toaster
A silver-scaled Dragon with jaws flaming red
Sits on my elbow and toasts my bread.
I hand him fat slices, and then one by one,
He hands them back when he sees they are done.

8. Stanza Stanzas are the paragraphs of poetry. How many stanzas?
The squirrel climbed a tree
Then he sang with glee
But soon, a bird swooped nearby
It reached for him and let out a cry

9. Types of Poems: Couplet
A poem made of two-lined stanzas that rhyme (AABBCC)
Questions to Discuss:
How many lines?
How many stanzas?
Why is it a couplet poem?
Street Performers A poet strums a hard rock beat, Makes raps up right there in Yonge Street, A guy with hair like copper wire Sips gasoline and spits out fire, A juggler juggles dinner plates While turning somersaults on skates, Another show is hard to pass: A man jumps barefoot on smashed glass But my favorite show is small and funky— The organ man’s dressed-up like a monkey.

10. Types of Poems: Quatrain
A poem made of four-lined stanzas that have a rhyme sheme
Questions to Discuss:
How many lines?
How many stanzas?
Why is it a quatrain poem?
San Diego Zoo How patiently the elephant Stands tall in his stall all day, Occasionally flapping a delicate ear To shoo a blue fly away

11. The Chorus from “Shake It Off”
Types of Poems: Ballad
A poem made with verses and a chorus; often set to music
Questions to Discuss:
How many lines?
How many stanzas?
Why is it a quatrain poem?
The Chorus from “Shake It Off”
Cause the players gonna play, play, play
And the haters gonna hate, hate, hate
Baby I'm just gonna shake, shake, shake
Shake it off. Shake it off

12. Types of Poems: Free Verse
A poem that does not have a rhyme scheme; line breaks are uneven and purposeful
Questions to Discuss:
How many lines?
How many stanzas?
Why is it a free verse poem?
Finding Myself I walked along the side of the road Looking for no one But I found a piece of myself along the way