1. Poetic Terms Free-verse Imagery Simile Metaphor Onomatopoeia
Alliteration
Personification

2. Free-Verse Definition Write in your own words
Free-verse is poetry that doesn’t have a regular rhythm, line length, or rhyme scheme. It relies on the natural rhythms of speech. Today it is the form of poetry that most American poets prefer. Free-verse poetry invents and follows its own forms, patterns, and rules.
--Nancy Atwell

3. Chain Poem Create a vertical list of 6-10 words
Free associate from the word before
Start with either “window” or “mirror”
Start at top center of page
Fill in the blanks around the chain
Add words before, after, or both

4. Image Poem Topics Quiet poem Loud Poem Silent Poem Winter Poem
Summer Poem
Morning Poem
Night Poem
Waiting Poem
Calm Poem
Anxious Poem

5. Two Steps for Creating an Image Poem
First, imagine an image for each sense—hearing, touching, seeing, smelling, and tasting—relating to your topic
Second, choose the images you want to use for your poem. Remember to turn general images into specific ones

6. Image Poem Format Image 1: ___________________________
And me
____________________________

7. Image Poem Example Our Quiet Poem
Snake scales slithering against a tree.
Rain sprinkling on frosty grass.
The sun drifting behind snow capped mountains.
Crickets singing in the night.
A cool midnight breeze
And me
Imagining it all.
Mrs. Sturgis’ 5th Grade Collaborative Poem

8. “Where I’m From” Poem Multi-stanza free-verse
Each stanza begins: “I am from. . .”
Begin by brainstorming items, names, sayings, foods, places to find childhood memories, similes, and metaphors
Use 11x17 brainstorming sheet

9. Tritina Tritina comes from the Latin for “three”
Contains three stanzas plus an envoy
Each stanza has three lines ending with one of three words
The envoy contains all three words
These three words are Important!
Subject is often a person or a memory

10. Tritina Form Stanza 1: ends in word 1 Stanza 2: ends in word 3
Envoy: one line that uses all 3 words.

11. Revision Strategies Alliteration: series starting with same sound
Onomatopoeia: words from their sound
“Begin Inside:” Begin poems “in the midst of things”
Add a title
Add literary devices such as simile, metaphor, personification, or sensory imagery

12. Poem Introduction Page
Include the title of the poem
Write a paragraph describing the poem, include:
The poetic form (image, chain, etc.)
What the poem’s about
What inspired it
Devices and revision strategies attempted

13. Introduction Page Example
“Horses and Rain”
This image poem uses imagery, simile, and alliteration. It is about horses in the rain that I saw when I went for a drive with my family. I was inspired by the colors and shapes of the horses in the wet pasture. In revision, I included similes and alliteration to add depth.

14. Photopoem Part 1:Interviewing a Picture
What physical things do you see in the image?
What feelings does the picture evoke?
What colors dominate or seem to represent feeling?
If you could be in the picture, what sounds would you hear around you?
What might you hear further away?
What textures could you touch?
What would you smell?
What memories do you connect with the sight, sounds, and/or smells?

15. Interview Part 2: If there are people in the picture, select one of the persons as a focus for this next section. If there is not a person, put a person into the picture. Decide on the person's gender and age.
What does the person do during the day?
What does the person do in the evening?
Who might be the people significant in this person's life?
What does this person fear?
What does this person enjoy?
What makes the person laugh and cry?
Who and what does she love?
What is this person's voice like?
With what sort of things does the person surround herself or himself?
What is the person looking at?
What just happened?
What is going on in the person's mind at the time of the picture?
What is the person feeling as the picture is being taken?

16. Interviewing a Picture: Part 3
What might have been different about the land 10 (100) years ago?
How might the land be different in the future?
Who or what has the power to change the face of the land?

17. Part 4: Interview Becomes a Draft
From the responses that you have written, choose a dozen or so words or phrases that interest you. Use these as a start to write a poem about the picture. Decide on a point of view. Are you in or out of the picture? Are you in the present or looking back on the past?

18. I Am Poem I am Rain, Forests, and Sunsets
I like long walks and quiet times
I value honesty, humor, and peace
I find satisfaction in others’ peace of mind
I can be fearsome when my ideas are challenged
But I thrive on intelligent conversation
I love this earth and its animals
I can be counted on to help
I have strong feelings when life is threatened
This is me. I am!

19. Lines 1-5 Begin with the words I am.
Write three nouns about which you have strong feelings. Begin each with a capital letter.
Write a complete sentence about two things you like.
Begin the sentence with the words I value. Follow with three nouns that describe qualities you like to see in other people.
Write a sentence containing a positive thought or feeling. It can tell what you find acceptable in yourself.

20. Lines 6-11
6-7 Write a sentence in which you show something negative within yourself or in others; the sentence must finish by showing that out of something bad can come good. Use the word but to link the bad and good.
8, 9, &10 Each line is a short sentence relating something about which you have strong feelings—likes or dislikes. These likes do not have to relate to each other or to the previous lines you have written.
11. End your poem with the words This is me. I am!

21. Haiku Five, seven, five, there! That’s how you make a Haiku
That is how it goes.
Isabella Geist

22. Poetry Conventions Title: each word capitalized
Capital letters at beginning of sentences and proper nouns, not every line.
Commas and periods: just like in prose writing, not every line.
Stanzas are the rooms of your poem house.
Line breaks are important.