1. A Collection of Poetry Written by You
Poetry Quire:
A Collection of Poetry Written by You

2. Create a cover
that incorporates
the theme
of one or more
of your poem(s).

4. reflects the content of your book and you
Create a cover that
reflects the content of your book and you

5. Concrete or Shape Poem
A Shape Poem is a type of poetry that describes an object and is shaped the same as the object the poem is describing. You could write your shape poem on anything.

7. Found Poem
You will “find” a poem on the page of your book. Then, you will draw a picture that represents your poem.
Student can’t use more than 2 consecutive words

8. Wearing the green dress
Smiling in pale gold
A hand against her neck
Wearing the green dress
Looking with concern
Helen
So blue

9. The feeling
of gravity
keeps us
down

10. by Ahjana Cross, 8th grade
A Found Poem
by Ahjana Cross, 8th grade
Face-to-face
Waiting
Nervously
looking serious
and anxious

11. If were in Charge...

12. If I were in charge of the world by Judith Viorst
If I were in charge of the world I'd cancel oatmeal, Monday mornings, Allergy shots, and also Sara Steinberg.  If I were in charge of the world There'd be brighter nights lights, Healthier hamsters, and Basketball baskets forty eight inches lower. If I were in charge of the world You wouldn't have lonely. You wouldn't have clean. You wouldn't have bedtimes. Or "Don't punch your sister." You wouldn't even have sisters. If I were in charge of the world A chocolate sundae with whipped cream and nuts would be a vegetable All 007 movies would be G, And a person who sometimes forgot to brush,  And sometimes forgot to flush, Would still be allowed to be  In charge of the world. 

13. Template for You

14. Follow the mentor poem. Must include 4 to 6 stanzas
I am Poem
Follow the mentor poem.
Must include 4 to 6 stanzas

16. Life Doesn’t Frighten Me

17. Maya Angelo reading her poem

18. Using the poem by Maya Angelou, rewrite the lines that repeat “Life Doesn’t frighten Me”
You do not have to write the same number of verses as are in the poem but you must write at least 5 stanzas
The lines do not have to rhyme but try to create end rhyme when possible
Simply think of things that frighten you, but that you would rather didn’t scare you

19. Student Sample #1 Knocking on the glass Shadows going past
People in the dark
Noises in the park
Life doesn’t frighten me at all
Mice on the floor
Screeching of the door
Life doesn’t frighten me at all.
Mean bank robbers here
Strangers over there
They don’t frighten me at all
Hurricane in the night
Fire in the light
That doesn’t frighten me at all.
I go boo
Make them shoo…
I make fun
Way they run
I won’t cry
So they fly
I just smile
They go wild
Knocking on the glass
Shadows going past
Life doesn’t frighten me at all
Man-eating sharks
Men with tattoo marks
No, they don’t frighten me at all.
Stared at in the eyes
Screams that make you cry
Never ending stairs
Paths that lead nowhere
They don’t frighten me at all.
Don’t show me snakes and spiders
And listen for my screams
I will not be afraid
I will stand straight and stay
I’ve got a magic charm
That I keep up my sleeve
I can stand so still
You can’t hear me breathe.

20. Student Sample #2 Obsession taunting me Unable to be free
Life doesn’t frighten me at all
Losing my dearest bud
Being thought of as a dud
Life doesn’t frighten me at all.
Something killing all my pets
Being swallowed up by death
Losing my gift of sight
Causing everything to be white
I go boo…
My idols being fake
Making a terrible mistake
Having a fatal disease
Being drowned in the seas
Being tortured by spiky things
And cruel unusual stretching things
In a cage up in a tower
As the pain’s increasing in its power
They don’t frighten me at all.
Don’t show me angry dogs
And listen for my screams
If I’m afraid at all
It’s only in my dreams.
I’ve got a magic charm
That I keep up my sleeve
I can stand up for myself
And never have to leave.
Life doesn’t frighten me at all
Not at all
Life doesn’t frighten me at all.

21. Spine Poem
Find a sentence in your book. It needs to have at least six words.
Write it along the “spine” of your paper. Use these words to create your poem.
Similar to an acrostic.

22. Spine Poem

23. About the Author

24. All about the Author Example

25. All about the Author page
_____________________________ is a _______________________ at
______________________________.  He/she enjoys ___________________,
_____________________________ and ____________________________.
When it comes to writing _________________ likes to write about _______________,
________________________ and ____________________.  ___________________
finds the most challenging part of writing to be _______________________________.
When ____________________ gets older, he/she hopes to ____________________
___________________________________________.  His/her advice for
writers young and old is __________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________.

26. Be sure your project is neat. You work hard the whole time.
Remember…..
Be sure your project is neat.
You work hard the whole time.
Organization Matters