Get out your poetry packet & open to your “Where I’m From” poem!
If you have not yet added a visual to your poem, draw one after your poem!
Objectives: Today I will read and draft limericks and cinquains.
Homework:
Agenda:
If you have not yet added a visual to your poem, draw one after your poem!
Objectives: Today I will read and draft limericks and cinquains.
Homework:
- Finish drafting limericks and cinquains if you do not finish in class
- Last day to turn in late work is Friday, March 13th
Agenda:
- "Where I'm From" Poems
- Share your “Where I’m From” poem with your table group.
- What was challenging about this poem? What were your successes in writing this poem?
- Volunteers to share your favorite line(s) with the class?
- Mrs. Weber's Example (Stanza 1):
- I am from gel pens,
From Neosporin and IKEA bookshelves.
I am from my mom’s “little broken house.”
(ivy-covered, fire-warmed,
learning to walk on slanted kitchen floors.)
I am from untamed corn stalks and pea plants,
overgrown in the garden we rarely tended.
- I am from gel pens,
- Key Elements of a Poem
- Limerick
- use rhyme scheme in a 5-line format
- A 5-line poem with rhymes in lines 1, 2, and 5, and then another rhyme in lines 3 and 4
- Example:
What is a limerick, Mother?
It's a form of verse, said Brother
In which lines one and two
Rhyme with five when it's through
And three and four rhyme with each other. - Now you try! Write a limerick with 5 lines and an AABBA rhyme scheme
- Cinquain
- Another 5-line poem that describes a single topic
- Remember, an adjective describes a noun (person, place, or thing). Synonyms are words with the same or similar meaning.
- Examples:
- A Cinquain follows this format:
- Line 1: Noun
- Line 2: Adjective, Adjective
- Line 3: -ING word, -ING word, -ING word
- Line 4: Short (~4 word) phrase describing the topic
- Line 5: Synonym