Poetry Folder Assignment

Poetry Folder Assignment

POETRY FOLDER ASSIGNMENT

DUE: FRIDAY, FEB 19th

This assignment is worth A TEST GRADE IN THE FIFTH SIX WEEKS. We will be working on it for homework and in class. It is your responsibility to keep up with your work and complete it in a timely manner.

  • Your poetry folder should be bound together neatly. This could be in a folder or bradded together to form a spine.
  • Your poetry folder must be set up as follows:

Cover

  1. Should be creatively decorated with images from newspapers, magazines, and/or drawings that reflect your interests and poems.
  2. Include your name, teacher’s name, and class period

Table of Contents

  1. List each assignment and its page number.

Section I: Poetry Notes, Explications, and Worksheets (Quiz Grade #1)

  1. Completed Poetry Terms Worksheet
  2. “Cat’s in the Cradle” analysis
  3. Poetry in Song Lyrics and analysis
  4. Poetry Explications for the following poems:
  5. “Night”
  6. Haiku by Matsuo Basho
  7. “Forgetfulness”
  8. “Mending Wall”
  9. “I dwell in possibility” or “I have no life but this..”
  10. “Rules and Regulations”
  11. “Sonnet 116”
  12. “Lightbulb” Shape Poem

Section II: Original poems written and illustrated (Quiz Grade #2)

  1. “Toss In” Poem
  2. Loaded Word Color Poem
  3. Image Poem (including image)
  4. Acrostic (Name Poem)
  5. Metaphorical Thinking Poem
  6. Wordle Poem (
  7. Form/Shape Poem
  8. Character Poem
  9. Song Lyric Mash-Up
  10. Alphabet Poem

Each poem should include poetic language and the reader should be able to identify devices like alliteration, metaphor/simile, onomatopoeia, etc.

  1. “Toss In” Poem: You were given a list of ten phrases, objects and words to put inside a poem of your own making. The only lines that are required to stay the same are #1 and #10. Choose three nouns from the poem to create your title.
  1. Word Color Haiku Poem:Choose a unique color and write a haiku poem either a) from the perspective of the color (give it a voice) or b) focusing solely on items of the color. Notice all of the places you see a certain color and the associations you have with it (ex: red—fire hydrant, jeep, red leash, apple). Include foods, locations, objects, variations of the color, etc.
  1. Image Poem (including image): Locate and print a picture of your choice. It must include a person, whose perspective you will write the poem from. Include the 5 W’s—Who? What? Where? When? Why? and descriptive imagery. The reader should feel as though they can see what is happening through the person’s eyes.
  1. Acrostic (Name Poem): Down the left hand margin, write the letters of your name in capitals. Use each letter to begin the lines of your poem. Adjectives, descriptions, imagery, etc. are required. It should tell the reader about you.
  1. Metaphor or Simile Poem: This poem should be entirely composed of metaphors and similes. Stray away from cliché (rhyming, anyone?), and use word associations to describe feelings, sights, etc.
  1. Sonnetand Wordle Poem ( Compose a Sonnet using your knowledge of the elements. It must contain 14 lines, with the last two lines being a couplet. When you finish, copy& paste the lines into the template on the website. Choose a font to match and create it. Then choose a layout to create visual interest. Prominent words will be in larger fonts. Print this wordle to go with your Sonnet.
  1. Form/Shape Poem: Choose a simple object/thing, like a clock, house, football, key, etc. and write a short poem about it using as much imagery, color, and descriptive language as you can think of that would associate with your chosen item. Then create a simple shape to fit the poem in or around. See the examples in your poetry packet to help you. This does not have to be typed, but must be colorful and legible.
  1. Character Poem: Choose a movie character, cartoon character, or real life person (i.e. fire fighter) and write a poem from their perspective, but do not reveal to the reader who you choose. Include details that would allow the reader to figure out who they are instead.
  1. Song Lyric Mash-Up: You brought in song lyrics for our first activity. Choose 10 lines from the song (none repeating, unless you begin and end your poem with the lines of a refrain) and design it as a poem. Make sure you’re choosing lines that include imagery, metaphor/simile and rhyme. Then use one last line of the song as the title.
  1. Alphabet Poem:This poem is the trickiest one of the bunch. Write a poem that uses either a) words that begin with the entire same letter, b) a poem dedicated to one letter of the alphabet and all words associated with it, or c) lines of the poem whose words are arranged in alphabetical order. Plan this one out before typing.
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