1. How do I distinguish among poetry, prose, and drama?

2. Activator
What Is It?
See if you can tell what each title is… poetry, prose, or drama
Record your answers on a blank sheet of paper.

3. The Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.
Activator
The Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.
“After a Hundred Years” by Emily Dickenson
Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography by Lemony Snicket

4. Poetry

5. Poetry’s Purpose Poetry is a form of writing that is meant to
1. entertain
2. express

6. Text Features of Poetry
There are several features of poetry that make it unique from other forms of writing. These are:

7. Text Features of Poetry
Varied in length
Written in lines and stanzas
Uses sound devices (rhyme, alliteration, onomatopoeia, etc…)
Takes poetic license with space, punctuation, grammar, etc…

8. Text Features of Poetry
Uses word pictures to build sensory impressions and create images
Plays with the sounds of words and the rhymes of phrases
Is usually intended to be read aloud

9. Forms of Poetry
Poetry can take several forms. These are:

10. Acrostic Poems Ballads Lyrical Poems Haikus Narrative Poems Free Verse
Forms of Poetry
Shape Poems
Acrostic Poems
Ballads
Lyrical Poems
Haikus
Narrative Poems
Free Verse
Blank Verse

11. Let’s Review #1
Tell me three things that you have learned about poetry (write them down).

12. Prose

13. Prose’s Purpose Prose is a form of writing that is meant to: 1. inform
2. entertain
3. express
4. persuade

14. Text Features of Prose
There are several features of prose that make it unique from other forms of writing. These are:

15. Written using paragraphs May contain dialogue
Text Features of Prose
Written using paragraphs
May contain dialogue
Can be either fiction or nonfiction
Can have headings and/or subheadings
Can be accompanied by graphics (charts, photos)

16. Forms of Prose
Prose can take several forms. These are:

17. Biography Autobiography Essay Novel Short Story Novella Article
Forms of Prose
Biography
Autobiography
Essay
Novel
Short Story
Novella
Article
Fable / Folktale
Folktale

18. Let’s Review #2
Tell me three things that you have learned about prose (write them down).

19. Drama

20. Drama’s Purpose Drama is a form of writing that is meant to:
1. express
2. entertain

21. Text Features of Drama
There are several features of drama that make it unique from other forms of writing. These are:

22. can have staging directions can have a list of characters
Text Features of Drama
can have staging directions
can have a list of characters
written to be performed
written in the form of a script (dialogue)
can include directions for costuming and physically setting a stage

23. Forms of Drama
Drama can take several forms. These are:

24. Forms of Drama
Play
Skit
Opera
Musical
Monologue
Readers’ Theater

25. Let’s Review #3
Tell me three things that you have learned about drama (write them down).

26. Summarizer, Part 1 Look back at our activator.
Now that you are more familiar with poetry, prose, and drama, go back and double-check if your first answers are correct.
If they aren’t, fix them.

27. Summarizer, Part 2 Take out a blank sheet of notebook paper.
Title it “Poetry, Prose, and Drama Summarizer” and head it properly.
Follow the directions on the next slide.

28. Summarizer, Part 2
We are doing a 3-2-1…
3. Write three types of text (there are only three)
2. Write two features of each type
1. Write one form of each type