1. WHAT EXACTLY ARE WE STUDYING TODAY???  Stand up  Move your body  Try to figure it out…  READY…SET…GO!!!!  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mdQgvGrhwU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mdQgvGrhwU

2. POETRY IN MOTION Poetry or Not…That is the question???

3. ALLITERATION An alliteration poem is a poem where almost all of the words have the same beginning sounds. Alliterations are often referred to as a tongue twisters.

4. OLD BETTY BOTTA Betty Botta bought some butter. “But,” said she, “this butter is bitter. If I put it in my batter, it will make my batter bitter…but a bit of better butter will make my batter better.” So she bought a bit of better butter, better than the bitter butter and made her bitter batter better...So ‘twas better Betty Botta bought a bit of better butter!

5. HAIKU  A Haiku is a Japanese poem, that does not rhyme.  It consists of 17 syllables on three lines.  The first and third lines have five syllables while the second line has seven syllables.  The Haiku is generally used to describe something or to paint a mental picture.

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7. LIMERICK  A humorous poem with five lines that always have the same rhyme and meter patterns.  Lines 1, 2, and 5 share the same rhyme.  Lines 3 and 4 rhyme with each other.

8. LIMERICK

9. RHYTHM Rhythm is a type of way to tell a poem. You usually have a beat or background music in a rhythm poem. “I Want a Juice Box…”

10. OTHER TYPES OF POEMS Free Verse Poem Preposition Poem

11. RHYME I Had a Hippopotamus… (A-A-B-B)

12. ACROSTICACROSTIC

13.  What I am thankful for  Foods you eat at Thanksgiving  Native Americans  Pilgrams  Autumn  What you do on Thanksgiving  Football PICK 5 WORDS TO DESCRIBE TOPIC BELOW…

14. POETRY IN MOTION As a table, you will have ten minutes to create a poem using all five words with which you described your topic-- utilizing any form of poetry we discussed. At the end of the ten minutes you will share your poems with the class.

15. READY…SET… Let poetry begin!!!