Transcript Poetry Unit - Granville County Schools

POETRY UNIT
S.C.O.S: 5.01 and 5.02
WARM-UP:
Write a definition for each word in the
homograph pairs below:
 Hair/hare
 Flour/flower
 Pail/pale
 Reign/rein
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WHAT IS POETRY?
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It is a way of organized writing that uses lines
instead of paragraphs.
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Elements of Poetry:
Form
 Sound
 Figurative Language
 Imagery
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ELEMENTS OF POETRY
Form: the way it looks on the page
 Types of Form:
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Stanza: groups of lines (4,6,8)
Blank Verse: lines have rhythm but do not rhyme
Free Verse: lines have no rhythm or rhyme
Rhymed: word at the end of some lines rhyme or
sound alike
Couplet: 2 consecutive lines that rhyme
ELEMENTS OF POETRY
Sonnet: 14 lines with a particular rhyme scheme
 Haiku: a poem of 3 lines with specific syllables in
each line (5, 7, 5) and mostly about nature
 Concrete: a poem that makes a picture on the
page
 Internal rhyme: 2 or more words in the same line
rhyme. Ex: The cat in the hat.
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SOUND
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Helps express meaning and emotions
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Types of Sound:
Rhythm: pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables
 Rhyme: words that sound the same or similar (hat, cat)
 Alliteration: repeating beginning consonant sounds (big,
black bear)
 Assonance: repeating vowel sounds (the cat in the hat sat on
a tac)
 Onomatopoeia: a word that represents a sound (bang, hiss,
pop)
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FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE
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Language that is NOT meant word for word
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Types of Figurative Language:
Simile: a comparison that uses the words LIKE or AS
 Metaphor: a comparison that DOES NOT use the words like
or as
 Personification: giving human actions or features to
something that is not human, (the stars winked at me)
 Hyperbole: an exaggeration (He weighs a ton!)
 Idiom: a phrase that has a meaning different from the
literal meaning. (Hit the books)
 Oxymoron: opposite or contradictory terms used in a
combined form (pretty ugly)
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IMAGERY
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Word or phrases that appeal to the 5 senses
“I could taste the sourness of the lemon as it made my
lips pucker.”
KINDS OF POEMS
Narrative: poems that tell a story
Epic: a long poem about a hero
Ballad: a poem that was originally sung (we still call
songs ballads)
Dramatic: a poem that has a conversation among
characters. Think Shakespeare!
Lyric: a poem that expresses that poet’s thoughts and
feelings
TODAY IS TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2010
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Warm-up: Identify the simile in the following
example. Copy the lines in this poem and
underline the simile in each line.: “ The willow is
like an etching, fine lined against the sky. The
ginkgo is like a crude sketch, hardly worthy to be
signed.”
TODAY IS WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8,
2010
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Warm-up: In your own words answer the
following question: What is a haiku?
HAIKU
From the Japanese we have inherited the
sensitive yet powerful haiku (high-coo). It is a
three-line, seventeen syllable, unrhymed poem
about nature.
 It captures a moment in nature or in life and
allows the reader to visualize the scene.
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LETS LOOK AT THE FOLLOWING EXAMPLES:
An old silent pond (5)
 A frog jumps into the pond (7)
 Splash, silence again.(5)
Basho
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What images do you see when you hear this poem?
In the darkest woods (5)
 A weeping willow tree cries (7)
 Who made such sadness? (5)
G.Lipson
What images do you see when you hear this poem?
What are the descriptive phrases used in this
poem?
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LET’S PRACTICE:
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Take these words and turn them into descriptive
phrases:
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For example: lake can be used like this: A lazy, placid
lake.
Sun
 Willow tree
 Night sky
 Ocean
 Beach
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TODAY IS THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2010
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Warm-up: Write 2 definitions for each word
below:
Count
 Down
 Fast
 Fly
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TODAY’S AGENDA:
Take out your haiku worksheets
 With a Partner share your haiku’s and answer
the following questions together:
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Does the first line in my poem have 5 syllables?
Does the second line in my poem have 7 syllables?
Does the last line in my poem have 5 syllables?
What is my partner’s haiku about?
Are there any mispelled words in my haiku?
What changes will you make to make your haiku
more descriptive?
FINALIZE HAIKU
On a clean sheet of regular or construction paper,
re-write your haiku and decorate it.
 Put you First and Last name, class period, and
today’s date on the back of your poem.
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TODAY IS FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2010
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Warm-up: Write 3 definitions for each
homograph:
Lap
 Meter
 Pound
 Spell
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