Get out your Poetry Packet & open it to the Visual Dictionary (page 4). Fill out your visual dictionary using pictures, definitions, or examples for the following words: line, stanza, verse, repetition
Objectives: Today I will read and draft synonym poems and diamante poems.
Homework:
Agenda:
Objectives: Today I will read and draft synonym poems and diamante poems.
Homework:
- Finish drafting today's poems if you do not finish in class
- Last day to turn in late work is March 13th
Agenda:
- Share your poems!
- Share your limericks & cinquains with your table group.
- Which type of poem have you enjoyed the most so far? Why?
- Volunteers to share their poems with the class?
- Synonyms: words or phrases that mean the same thing
- Synonym Poems (page 10)
- Poems that focus on the synonyms and descriptive phrases for a chosen word
- Steps for writing a Synonym Poem:
- Choose a word that is not a proper noun (name of a specific person/place, like Taylor Swift or Maywood Middle School).
- Write the word in all capital letters for line 1. Ex. LOVE
- Find 3-5 synonyms in a thesaurus.
- Write the synonyms on line 2. Ex. Attachment, adoration, warmth, adore.
- On line 3, write a descriptive phrase about the word. Ex. Love is so pure right down to the core.
- Lines 2 and 3 should rhyme. Ex. Adore & Core
- Now you try!
- Use a thesaurus (or your brain) to determine synonyms (words that mean the same thing) for your word of choice.
- Then, choose a descriptive phrase that relates to your word.
- Remember to rhyme lines 2 & 3!
- Parts of Speech Review: (page 11)
- Noun: A person, place, or thing
- Child, school, book
- Verb: An action word
- Study, run, fly, yawn
- Adjective: A word describing a noun
- wild, boring, orange
- Adverb: A word describing a verb, adjective, or other adverb
- Usually ends in -ly
- Explains how something is done
- Quickly, carefully, very
- Noun: A person, place, or thing
- Diamante Poems: (page 11)
- Poems shaped like diamonds that begin describing one noun and gradually describe something opposite to where you began
- Now you try!
- Use the template in your packet to guide you
- Choose a noun to begin your diamante (think about things you can describe using sensory language)
- Then, determine a noun that means the opposite
- Use the template in your packet to guide you
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