Get out your poetry packet & fill in your visual dictionary (page 4) for the terms personification, onomatopoeia, alliteration, & imagery
Objectives: Today I will read, discuss, and draft a free verse poem.
Homework:
Agenda:
- Imagery: Visually descriptive or figurative language
Objectives: Today I will read, discuss, and draft a free verse poem.
Homework:
- Finish drafting free verse poem if you do not finish in class
- Last day to turn in late work is Friday!
- Poetry Term Quiz on Monday
Agenda:
- Share Your Poems!
- Share your onomatopoeia poem and/or your personification poem with your table group members!
- Volunteers to share with the class?
- Photo Essay Rubrics
- Today you’ll be getting your photo essay rubrics back.
- Keep them until you are positive the grade is entered correctly on Skyward!
- If you would like to re-submit your photo essay:
- Make revisions!
- Write down what you changed on the back of your rubric.
- Turn your rubric back in by Monday
- Free Verse Poems (pages 19-20)
- Free verse poems have no set rhythm or rhyme scheme that they must follow.
- There is no required structure.
- Free verse often sounds like natural speech, but with more imagery.
- Imagery: Visually descriptive or figurative language
- Maya Angelou's "Caged Bird"
- Follow along in your packet (page 19) while we listen to this poem
- Group Discussion
- Have a discussion with your table group about the poem “Caged Bird” by Maya Angelou
- Each group member chooses a different discussion role (facilitator, recorder, reporter, or timekeeper). All group members contribute ideas.
- Group Discussion Norms
- Stay on topic
- Talk with your group
- Everybody responds to each question
- Encourage others to participate
- Disagree respectfully
- Listen while others are speaking
- Now You Try! (page 20)
- Choose a focus for your poem (consider different themes you are interested in writing about).
- Write, write, write!
- Revise as needed after you finish your draft.
- Your poem should be at least 8 lines long, but try to write 10 or more for an extra challenge!
Daily Agenda Slideshow