POETRY

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POETRY
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Confession

• I have a brief confessionthat I would like to
  make.If I don't get it off my chestI'm sure my
  heart will break.
• I didn't do my reading.I watched TV
  instead-while munching cookies, cakes, and
  chipsand 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 energyI wasted
  through the night.
• I feel so very guilty.I did a lousy job.I hope
  my students don't find outthat I am such a slob.
• by Bruce Lansky

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Poem

• This is a poem
• It is! It is! It is!

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2morrow

•  Today is filled with angerfueled with hidden
  hatescared of being outcastafraid of common
  fateToday is built on tragedieswhich no one
  wants 2 facenightmares 2 humanitiesand morally
  disgracedTonight is filled with rageviolence in
  the airchildren bred with ruthlessnessbecause
  no one at home caresTonight I lay my head
  downbut the pressure never stopsknawing at my
  sanitycontent when I am droppedBut 2morrow I c
  changea chance 2 build a newBuilt on spirit
  intent of Heartand idealsbased on truthand
  tomorrow I wake with second windand strong
  because of pride2 know I fought with all my
  heart 2 keep mydream alive
• TuPac Shakur

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QW Poetry

• What is poetry to you?
• Do you like it? Why or why not?
• How does the word poetry make you feel? What do
  you think of when you hear it?
• Did those poems make you feel differently about
  poems?

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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.

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Important Vocabulary Words of the Day Day 1

• 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.

TWO lines ?
THREE stanzas ?
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Figurative Language

• Also known as figures of speech
• Language that makes startling connections to
  dissimilar things
• EX comparing a painters colors with a poets
  words.
• Rap Song

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Important VocabularyWords 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 (figurative language)
• Personification examples found in music

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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?

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Important Vocabulary Word of the Day Day 3

• Imagery The picture a poet creates in the
  readers 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."
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GoldBy 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, were 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.
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Important Vocabulary Words of the Day Day 4

• Rhyme the repetition of particular sounds
• End rhymes occur at the end of lines
• Internal rhymes occur within lines
• Exact rhymes rhymes that have exactly the same
  sounds (me/sea, stone/alone)

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
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Jabberwocky p. 391

• After we have read this poem in class, choose two
  lines that stuck out to you.
• Illustrate those lines and write them at the
  bottom of the paper. Underline and identify any
  internal and end rhymes (see example).

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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

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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.