1. LEARNING TARGET TODAY WE WILL…. Practice and prove your ability
18 MAY 2017
Bell Activity: Read through the selections of Student submitted Concrete Abstract poetry and Box Poems on your desks.
LEARNING TARGET
Improving our ABILITY TO COMMUNICATE MORE EFFECTIVELY by USING POETIC DEVICES.
TODAY WE WILL….
Practice and prove your ability
through the Poetry Portfolio
Assignment
Listen to the free verse poetry of Shane Koyczan in his poem “Instructions for a Bad Day”.

2. USE TODAY TO
WRITE & REVISE
YOUR POEMS

3. use the same sheet of paper for rough drafts of more than one poem.
DO NOT
use the same sheet of paper for rough drafts of more than one poem.

4. blank sheet of paper for the prewrite Portfolio packet
YOU WILL NEED:
pen
blank sheet of paper for the prewrite
Portfolio packet
Student examples from the bell activity.
Your poetry portfolio instructions sheet
Your poetry rough drafts

5. The Change Box My box contains the finest summer evening.
An ocean of fears and hope, creating their colors,
jockeying for the royal position.
Death on strike, Life taunting death. Death unloved, unwelcomed, lonely…
My box is made of glass mountains and dreams.
fashioned by an ancient wizard, trying in vain to annihilate change.
My box has secrets in its wings, and dinosaurs of the past’s magistrates.
The box is handed down through families, and generations,
over the millennia protecting it from that Neolithic Necromancer,
the Prestidigitator, protecting the box with their whole entities.
My box will reside on satin pillows,
in Father proclaimed pigsties, and closet floors.
It is hope. It is change. It is the bravery of Founding Fathers.
It will outlive the eternity to come
--Katie Lester
My box contains scenes best forgotten
and the thick, heavy, blackly numbing Novocain taste
of lies, half-truths, and deceptions. With frigid winter midnights.
My box contains frozen birds thawing, mother and child waking.
silver silk scarves burning, magnificent trees swaying,
a miscellanea of Changing
My box contains a baby robin falling,
then soaring in the fervent gale;
a master chef with the recipe for life, love and living;
dreams discarded, fulfilled;
Womankind taking enormous leaps,
unlocking doors of power left dormant for centuries

6. NO LAPTOPS POEMS DUE BEGINNING OF BLOCK ELA FINAL EXAM
SUN
MON
TUE
WED
THUR
FRI
SAT 19
WRITING & REVISING
“FAVORITE THINGS”
“CONCRETE ABSTRACTS”
“BOX POEM” 18
WRITING & REVISING
“FAVORITE THINGS”
“CONCRETE ABSTRACTS”
“BOX POEM”
“REDISCOVERED POEM” 22 24 23 25 26
REVISING & FINISHING YOUR FINAL DRAFTS.
POEMS DUE BEGINNING OF BLOCK
REVIEW FOR
ELA EXAM
ELA FINAL EXAM
(FOCUS ON POETRY)
NO LAPTOPS
SUBMITTING YOUR BEST POEM ONLINE
“THE HIGHWAYMAN”
POETRY FOR 2 VOICES
TEAM DISCOVERY
AWARDS ASSEMBLY 2 29 30 31 1
MEMORIAL DAY
NO SCHOOL
TALENT SHOW
YEARBOOKS
CLEANING

7. FREE VERSE POETRY is
poetry which DOES NOT contain rhyme schemes, meter patterns
or pre-determined forms.
Free verse poetry uses:
IMAGERY
FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE
Personification, hyperbole, simile, metaphor, symbolism
POETIC SOUND DEVICES
Onomatopoeia, Internal Rhyme, Alliteration, Assonance, Consonance
Example: Instructions for a Bad Day by Shane Koyczan