1. POETRY

2. Confession I have a brief confession that I would like to make. If I don't get it off my chest I'm sure my heart will break. I didn't do my reading. I watched TV instead- while munching cookies, cakes, and chips and cinnamon raisin bread. I didn't wash the dishes. I didn't clean the mess. Now there are roaches eating crumbs- a million, more or less. I didn't turn the TV off. I didn't shut the light. Just think of all the energy I wasted through the night. I feel so very guilty. I did a lousy job. I hope my students don't find out that I am such a slob. by Bruce Lansky

3. Poem This is a poem It is! It is! It is!

5. 2morrow Today is filled with anger fueled with hidden hate scared of being outcast afraid of common fate Today is built on tragedies which no one wants 2 face nightmares 2 humanities and morally disgraced Tonight is filled with rage violence in the air children bred with ruthlessness because no one at home cares Tonight I lay my head down but the pressure never stops knawing at my sanity content when I am dropped But 2morrow I c change a chance 2 build a new Built on spirit intent of Heart and ideals based on truth and tomorrow I wake with second wind and strong because of pride 2 know I fought with all my heart 2 keep my dream alive TuPac Shakur

6. In your group: Read all the poems in your envelope Discuss each one and how you feel about it; does it explain poetry the way you see it? Choose the one poem that best fits your entire group’s feelings about poetry; share with the class WHY it fits your feelings – BE SPECIFIC!

7. Things to know… Poetry does not have to rhyme Anything in the world can be the subject of a poem Every word counts in poetry. Poetry is “the best choice of words.”

8. Important Vocabulary Words Lines: Each line of the poem Stanza: a poetic “paragraph” Every time there is a break in lines, it is a new stanza Twinkle, twinkle, little star How I wonder what you are. Up above the world so high, Like a diamond in the sky. Twinkle, twinkle, little star How I wonder what you are. THREE stanzas  TWO lines 

9. Important Vocabulary Words Rhyme: the repetition of particular sounds End rhymes: occur at the end of lines Internal rhymes: occur within lines Alliteration: repetition of similar consonant sounds at the beginning of a line Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore, While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. `'Tis some visitor,' I muttered, `tapping at my chamber door - Only this, and nothing more.' -The Raven, Edgar Allan Poe

10. “Jabberwocky” Using your previous notes, identify the following in the poem: Number each line Number each stanza Circle any ends rhymes Underline any internal rhymes Star any alliterations

11. “Jabberwocky” Circle all the jibberish words in the poem. Your group will be assigned one word, on a poster, please: Identify the word Write the part of speech for the word Make up a definition for the word- make sure it “fits” with the poem! Draw a picture of the scene from the poem that includes your word

12. Figurative Language Also known as figures of speech Language that makes startling connections to dissimilar things EX: comparing a painter’s colors with a poet’s words. Rap Song

13. Important Vocabulary Words of the Day: Day 2 Metaphor- an imaginative comparison between two unlike things where one thing is said to BE another thing (i.e. “My happiness IS a blossoming flower.”) Simile- a comparison between two unlike things, using a word such as: like or as (i.e. “He is LIKE an animal!”) Personification: When writers give human or living qualities to nonhuman or nonliving things The gravel slides beneath my feet, wanting to ruin this day. The stairs grow an extra step, to trip and tangle my legs. The lights in the room glow viciously, attempting to blind my eyes. The fans wobble dangerously, teasing me to move my seat. "Part of Me“"Part of Me“ (figurative language) Personification examples found in music

14. “I Am of the Earth” p. 386 Read the poem What does the earth do that makes it like a mother? How is this personification? What message does this idea of Earth being a mother convey?

15. Important Vocabulary Word of the Day: Day 3 Imagery: The picture a poet creates in the reader’s mind using words that appeal to the five senses. "A host of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. "The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls; He watches from his mountain walls."

16. “Gold” By Pat Mora When Sun paints the desert with its gold, I climb the hills. Winds run round boulders, ruffles my hair. I sit on my favorite rock, lizards for company, a rabbit, ears stiff in the shade of a saguaro. In the wind, we’re all eye to eye. Sparrow on saguaro watches rabbit watch us in the gold of sun setting. Hawk sails on waves of light, sees sparrow, rabbit, lizards, me, our eyes shining, watching red and purple sand rivers stream down the hill. I stretch my arms wide as the sky like hawk extends her wings in all the gold light of this, home. Using all of the art supplies available to you… create a picture of the images you “saw” in this poem.

17. Important Vocabulary Words of the Day Alliteration: the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of a word Rhyme scheme: patterns of rhyme A tutor who tooted the flute A Tried to tutor two tutors to tootA Said the two to the tutor, B “Is it harder to toot, or C To tutor two tooters to toot?” A -Carolyn Wells

18. “Madam and The Rent Man” p. 393 Who is the speaker of the poem? What is her argument with the rent man? Do you think this poem has a message? What is it? Write the last word of each line, then identify the rhyme scheme by writing “A,” “B,” “C,” etc after each “line.”