1. Poetry Unit

2. Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings.
Compare and contrast the structure of two or more texts and analyze how the differing structure of each text contributes to its meaning and style.

3. Journal
What is your favorite song? Why? Write down as many of the lyrics as you can. How does it make you feel?

4. Poetry in Songs…
“Never, ever, ever, getting back together…” (Taylor Swift) = assonance, repetition
“Baby, you’re a firework…” (Katy Perry) = metaphor, symbol
“When I walk on by…” (LMFAO) = consonance, alliteration
“I’ll be your platinum, I’ll be your silver, I’ll be your gold…” (Justin Bieber) = metaphor, symbol
“Thunder only happens when it’s raining…” (Fleetwood Mac) = imagery, symbolism
“people dy’in… people cry’in…” (Black Eyed Peas) rhyming, rhythm

5. Poem List Like what poem My ______ is like _______ poem Inside this…
Quiet Poem
Imagery Poem (similar to the quiet poem)
Soul poem

6. Turn to your partner and each answer the following:
How do you feel about poetry? Do you like it? Dislike it? Do you get frustrated with poetry?

7. Words have power
Words are powerful: Think of an example of how words hold power. Be prepared to share with the class.
- Fire!

8. The Distant Drum
I am not a metaphor or a symbol This you hear is not the wind in the trees, Nor a cat being maimed in the street. I am being maimed in the street. It is I who weep, laugh, feel pain or joy, Speak this because I exist. This is my voice. These are my words, My mouth speaks them, My hand writes – I AM A POET. It is my fist you hear Beating against your ear. - Calvin Hernton
What poetic elements do you notice in this poem. Explain them to a neighbor:
I notice _____________ in the _______ line , which means _________________.
I understand how _____________ means _____________ because _________________.
An example of _____________, is ____________________________________________.

9. Say…
I notice _____________ in the _______ line, which means _________________.
I understand how _____________ means _____________ because ________________.
An example of _____________, is ______________________________.

10. The Distant Drum Poems grow out of feelings and thoughts.
How do people show their feelings and thoughts?
Think about how we use our senses to help describe feelings….

11. My feelings in a poem I like December
It is fun to cozy up inside with loved ones and watch a movie or drink a warm drink by the fire
I love the smell of Christmas trees
I love the anticipation of the holidays
It seems longer than other seasons

12. Free Verse Poem about December
December is like a gentle, constant rain Time stands still Waiting, enjoying, anticipating, talking Watching movies you get to see only one time a year The best part is never knowing if snow will fall Enough…. To cancel school

13. Journal 12-12-12 Poems and Drawings by Shel Silverstein
Make a list of all of the poems that you know or that you can remember reading or hearing about.
Name as many poets as you can and try to write down anything that you remember about him or her.
Poems and Drawings by Shel Silverstein

14. Use your imagination…
Close your eyes and imagine that you are in a dark room. A color is going to come into the room and rip through your bodies. It is going to make you either hot or cold because colors can do this. The color is bright orange. Imagine your blood this color, your heart pumping bright orange through your veins, snaking through your body to the tips of your toes and fingers.

15. Imagine bright red
What does it sound like?

16. Working Warm-up
Study root words for the first 10 minutes of class.
Test tomorrow.

17. Next, imagine you are angry…
What does it taste like?

18. Finish the following “Like what” similes about the emotion of anger with your group. This is just for practice. Stand when you are done!
Hot like?
Cold like…
Sounds like…
Taste like…
Smells like…
Looks like (shape, size)…
Texture like (rough, slimy)…
Moves like….

19. Anger can be:
Red like tomato sauce boiling over on the stove Gray like a rumbling storm cloud Cold like icicles hanging from slimy gutters Cold like someone who ignores you Smells like skunk Tastes like rotten eggs Slithers like a cobra through my brain, giving me poisonous thoughts Rough as sandpaper, sharp as porcupine quills

20. Poem #1 Emotion/Like What Poem
Each table group pick an emotion and then act it out in front of the class.
Each student should choose one of the emotions acted out and then write a poem using the “Like what” list.

21. Poem #1 Emotion/Like What Poem
Your turn! Pick an emotion and then write a poem using the “Like What” format.

22. Emotions Excited Confused Embarrassed Surprised Joyful Nervous Sad
Scared
Happy
Shy
Depressed
In Love
Other?

23. 4 rules when writing poetry
Don’t worry about your spelling
Don’t worry about erasing
Don’t worry about being neat
Don’t worry about rhyme

24. Guide to Revising a Poem
Did I express myself completely? What ideas could I add to enhance the mood or develop my feelings about the topic?
Have I used a few different poetic elements? (See pink resource)
Is my word choice descriptive? What “stale” words could I change? Can I elaborate in certain parts of the poem by adding “where, when, or how”?
Is my spelling correct?
Create final copy. The presentation of your poem should convey the mood or theme of the poem.

25. Frustration
Hot like the searing blood Boiling my veins, Cold like icy fingers slowly choking My patience, Sounds like the constant chatter of Clueless students, Smells like an eternal hallway clouded with Axe body spray, Tastes like a constant barrage of sweet When all I really want is Savory. It squeezes, Erupts, Twists – Swarms like mosquitoes hovering over your ears Right before falling asleep, A ceaseless itch just out of reach…

26. Journal 12-17-12 What is a simile?
Write down three examples of similes in your journal.
Why do we want to use similes in poetry?

27. Flint An emerald is as green as grass, A ruby red as blood; A sapphire shines as blue as heaven; A flint lies in the mud. A diamond is a brilliant stone, To catch the world's desire; An opal holds a fiery spark; But a flint holds a fire. Christina Rossetti

28. Similes What does your hair feel like?
Smooth like…
What is the palm of your hand like?
Soft like…

29. Simile Poem
My _________ is like __________________________________________________ My _________ are like _______________________________ My __________ are __________________________________ My ___________ is __________________________________ My heart holds _____________________________________ (feeling) That is ____________ as _____________________________ (color) I live in ____________________________________________ And eat ___________________________________________

30. My classroom is like a whirling windstorm, whipping ideas and thoughts through the air My students are like kites flying in the sky My powerpoints are the strong string of safety My whiteboard is a beacon of information My heart holds hope that is as bright as silver I live in wisdom and eat knowledge.

31. Which jobs would you rather have and why?
Journal
Thinking about how we use words to express ourselves, think about professions that depend on words.
What jobs are there that require you to be good at speaking and/or writing. What jobs do not require words as much?
Which jobs would you rather have and why?

32. Vocabulary
Continue reviewing for the cumulative root word test, covering lists 1-6.
Test Day = Friday 1/11/13

33. Journal #3 O Captain! My Captain!
O Captain my Captain! our fearful trip is done, The ship has weathered every rack, the prize we sought is won, The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting, While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring; But O heart! heart! heart! O the bleeding drops of red, Where on the deck my Captain lies, Fallen cold and dead. O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells; Rise up--for you the flag is flung for you the bugle trills, For you bouquets and ribboned wreaths for you the shores a-crowding, For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning; Here Captain! dear father! This arm beneath your head! It is some dream that on the deck, You've fallen cold and dead. My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still; My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will; The ship is anchored safe and sound, its voyage closed and done; From fearful trip the victor ship comes in with object won; Exult O shores, and ring O bells! But I, with mournful tread, Walk the deck my Captain lies, Fallen cold and dead.
-Walt Whitman

34. Metaphor
Metaphors are another way to look deeper, to see something in a different light…it is a tool to make the ordinary extraordinary, a way to make the images in your poem more vibrant and colorful.
O Captain! My Captain is an extended metaphor about what?

35. To Look at Anything by John Moffitt
If you would know that thing,
You must look at it long:
To look at this green and say,
"I have seen spring in these
Woods," will not do - you must
Be the thing you see:
You must be the dark snakes of
Stems and ferny plumes of leaves,
You must enter in
To the small silences between
The leaves,
You must take your time
And touch the very peace
They issue from.
~ John Moffitt ~

36. Look at your pencil. Using your unbelievably creative imaginations, think about what is ‘inside’ your pencil (besides lead and wood).

37. Inside this pencil crouch words that have never been written never been spoken never been thought They’re hiding They’re awake in there dark in the dark hearing us but they won’t come out not for love not for time not for fire Even when the dark has worn away they’ll still be there hiding in the air Multitudes in days to come may walk through them breathe them be none the wiser What script can it be that they won’t unroll In what language would I recognize it Would I be able to follow it to make out the real names of everything Maybe there aren’t many it could be that there’s only one word and it’s all we need it’s here in this pencil Every pencil in the world is like this
The Unwritten

38. Go Inside “look inside” something using your imagination.
Take notes first before you begin writing
If you are not sure how to start then begin your poem with: Inside this….

39. Journal
Think about some of your favorite things to eat. Use all five of your senses (seeing, hearing, touching, tasting, and smelling) to describe what it is like to eat these foods.
Focus on creating an image in the mind of the reader.

40. Lesson 4
We experience much of life through our senses, the flicker of a candle, the smell of wood smoke on a winter night, the taste of raspberries warm from the sun. We hear wind rattle windows and feel scratchy burlap. The use of vivid language to convey sensations is called imagery and it helps us to experience fully what we read.

41. Swift Things Are Beautiful
Swift things are beautiful: Swallows and deer, And lightening that falls Bright-veined and clear, Rivers and meteors, Wind in the wheat, The strong-withered horse, The runner’s sure feet. And slow things are beautiful: The closing of day, The pause of the wave That curves downward to spray The ember that crumbles, The opening flower And the ox that moves on In the quiet of power.

42. Journal
Write down three images that remind you of quiet. Use your mind like a camera: what does it see for quiet?

43. Quiet Poem Image 1 Image 2 Image 3 Image 4 And me (ending)
Student Example:
Snake scales slithering against a tree
Rain sprinkling on frosty grass
The sun drifting behind snow capped mountains
Crickets at night
A cool midnight breeze
Imagining it all.

44. Now you will write your own imagery poem
Loud
Dark
Silent
Morning
Night
Waiting
Calm
Anxious
Jealous ?

45. Take a dive into the soul
Examine the card given to you. Dive into its world and let it surround you…where are you? What does it feel like? What colors attack your vision? What kind of sounds invade your ears? What aromas sneak into your senses?
Create a poem, dripping with imagery, about your card. Engross your reader into your world.

46. Journal
What are some of your favorite sounds and smells? Think about different seasons and the different sounds and smells that come along with each season.
Make a list and describe what you like about them.

47. Lesson 5
Look at the poem, Joyful Noise, and find all of the metaphors, similes, and imagery that you can find.
Keep a list in your journal of metaphors, similes, and imagery that you find in the poem.

48. Grasshoppers Sap’s rising Ground’s warming Grasshoppers are
hatching out
Autumn-laid eggs
splitting
Young stepping
into spring

49. Grasshoppers
hopping
high
jumping
far

50. Vaulting from
leaf to leaf
stem to stem
plant to plant
Grass-
leapers
Leapers
bounders

51. Grass-
springers
soarers
Leapfrogging
longjumping
grasshoppers

52. Musicality of Poetry
Remember that poetry takes a look at something twice, to go beyond the literal.
In partners, read “Joyful Noise”, which takes a second look at insects.
Best duo that recites poem wins a prize!

53. Lesson 6
What is your favorite type of weather? Describe it and talk about what you like about it and what you dislike about it?

54. Strong Verbs
Verbs are the most powerful words in a sentence; they are the only ones that can stand by themselves in a sentence.

55. The old man walks into the room.
The little girl walks into the room.

56. Remember to think about mood, size, age, character, etc.
On your white boards, write more specific words to describe the following:
Rain
Snow
Heat
Thunder

57. Hurricane
All night the wind poured through the trees, roared like a waterfall, tugged and tore. In the morning light the stunned trees looked down on tattered leaves heaped in brown hills torn twigs flung in barbed wire tangles battered branches crossed like swords.

58. Notice the placement of the words – if you want a word to have more power, place it on a line by itself.
If you want your reader to pause, start a new line. Direct your readers; make them slow down and listen to what you have to say.

59. Slashed Skies
Red Screams
Wobbly Feelings
A Nightmare’s __________________
Liquid Lies
Plastic Words
Hushed Wisdom
Silent _________________
Purple Pain
Plaid Jazz
Secret _________________
Green _________________
Broken ___________________
_______________ Dreams
_______________ Whispers
Charred ___________________
Brass Sunshine

60. Desert Burning From yellow to flesh color: the land is charred language. There are invisible spines, there are thorns in the eyes. Three satiated vultures on a pink wall. It has no body no face no soul, it is everywhere, crushing all of us: this sun is unjust. Rage is mineral Colors are relentless. Unrelenting horizon. Drumbeats drumbeats drumbeats. The sky blackens like this page. Scattering of crows. Impending violet violences. The sand whirles up, thurnderheads, heards of ash. The chained trees howl. I pound you sky, land I pound you.

61. Open sky, closed land, flute and drum, lightning and thunder, I open you, I pound you. You open, land, your mouth filled with water your body gushes sky, You crack, land and burst, your seeds explode the word grows green.

62. Using one of the titles from the previous slide, write your own poem, making sure to use strong verbs, imagery, similes and metaphors.

63. Daily Inquiry Journal
What are some of your most vivid memories from childhood? Think about people and/or experiences that you still remember today. Make a list and try to add in a few details to help remember the experiences a little bit better.
Examples: My grandmother letting me wear makeup, trips to California to visit family, gymnastic lessons, climbing the neighborhood tree…

64. Daily Inquiry Journal
Thinking about your childhood and some of your memories, which experiences in your life would you like to relive? What would you do differently and why? Would it change your life now?

65. “Experience” Poem
Poetry should be about something that inspires you or something that you know…something that runs from your heart and soul. Today you will write a poem about your experiences growing up. Make the ordinary extraordinary.
Remember to use strong verbs, specific and vivid similes/metaphors.

66. Piano Lessons I used to sit at piano lessons and cry or hear my sister’s crying In the other room. The old woman would snap and say tight-lipped “you are no good. What is wrong with you.” But every year she would invite us to her dogs’ birthday party. Only the dogs got hats. And in the summer her funny smell would fill The screen porch where we waited our turns to be defeated. I would sit in the hammock with the green terry cover. And the candy in those crystal dishes (we never really knew if it was there to eat) it always tasted a million years old.

67. Best Tree I used to climb the tall catalapa tree and hide
Best Tree I used to climb the tall catalapa tree and hide. Over and Under fat, cumbersome leaves would shelter me from too much sky above too much brother underneath. Sometimes I’d climb so high the limbs got thin. Breeze-blown, they’d sway like arms, Rocking, they cradled me, while I gazed at the sun through the underside of the leaves and dreamed my fingers were feathers, my arms were wings

68. “Experience” Poem I used to __________ and __________
Remember to use strong verbs, specific and vivid similes/metaphors.
Use details that help the reader be there with you for the experience.

69. Daily Inquiry Journal
Think about if this school was going to make a time capsule for the first year of South Meadows. What do you think should go inside that would best represent this year so far. Think about popular trends of the year, books, movies, objects, and anything else that would help people find out about more about our school and the people who attend.

70. What’s in my Journal
Make a list of ten of the most important objects in your life right now (ex: phone, lip gloss, snowboard).
Make a list of ten of the most important people and/or animals in your life right now.
Make a list of ten of the most important activities, hobbies, or sports in your life right now.

71. What’s in my Journal
Odd things, like a button drawer. Mean thing, fishhooks, barbs in your hand. But marbles too. A genius for being agreeable. Junkyard, crucifixes, voluptuous discards. Space for knickknacks and for Alaska. Evidence to hang me, or to beatify. Clues that lead nowhere, that never connected anyway. Deliberate obfuscation, the kind that takes genius. Chasms in character. Loud omissions. Mornings that yawn above a new grave. Pages you know exist but you can’t find them. Someone’s terribly Inevitable life story, maybe mine. - William Stafford

72. What’s in My Journal Student Examples
A Brinks truck on its side, greenbacks and Ben Franklins pouring from smashed safes. Blades of knives, a smoking gun, and a flame that never dims or fades. Cats prowling around an eight-lane pool filled to the brim with lemonade. On the serious side; sick humor - a destructive passion Satan himself can’t match. But also the side of the room draped in shadow – a foreboding mix of darkness and deceit. Well, kind of. - Niall Janney

73. What’s in My Journal
Spit-drenched tennis balls and a pungent stench. “Lost” with a heart drawn around it on every blank surface. The lingering scent of Burberry Brit that stains our upstairs for all eternity. Quizzes from trashy magazines - Who’s your celebrity sister? And, Are You the Party Girl or the Wet Blanket? Dead goldfish: Judy, Whoopie, Francis. Camp memories: sailing with Schmidt and Olivia; plunging into the gleotricia-infested lake. Page upon page of possible future signatures. Sketches of celebrities from the best-dressed section of Teen People. And still sleeping soundly when the clocks read 11:30am: a glance into my twelve pages. - Anna Jaeger

74. Now you write a poem about what is in “your journal.”
Take a verbal snapshot of who you are at this moment.
The title of your poem should be, What is in My Journal.

75. Daily Inquiry Journal
Describe your family. Who is in it? Think of a few unique qualities of your family.
Describe your friends. Who do you consider a friend and why? What are some fun experiences you have had together.

76. Family and Friends
The topic of family can be funny, serious, sad, or joyous.
Everyone has a “family” – it doesn’t have to be a traditional family but anyone or anything that brings you comfort and support.
Sometimes we don’t have the best families and that is ok to write about.
Poetry allows you to write about anything and everything that you want.

77. Listening to Grownups Quarreling Standing in the hall against the wall with my brother, blown like leaves against the wall by their voices, my head like a ping pong ball between the paddles of their anger; I knew what it meant to tremble like a leaf. Cold with their wrath, I heard the claws of the rain pounce. Floods poured throughout the city, skies clapped over me, and I was shaken, shaken like a mouse between their jaws.

78. The Portrait My mother never forgave my father for dying, especially at such an awkward time and in a public park, that spring when I was waiting to be born. She locked his name in her deepest cabinet and would not let him out, though I could hear him thumping. When I came down from the attic with the pastel portrait in my hand of a long-lipped stranger with a brave moustache and deep brown level eyes, she ripped it into shreds without a single word and slapped me hard. In my sixty-fourth year I can feel my cheek still burning

79. Write your own poem about family or friends
Describe the person that you want to write about.
What does s/he look like?
What are some common actions that s/he does?
Describe his/her life?
Describe experiences you have had with him/her
What do you think your relationship will be like later in life?

80. Daily Inquiry Journal
We use words to express ourselves but how do you think you best express yourself? Do you like to write? Talk? Perform? Do you prefer a quieter method of expression? Do you prefer to express yourself through music, clothes, hairstyle, etc…?