Transcript Poetry Unit - Hillsboro School District

• Demonstrate understanding of figurative
language, word relationships, and nuances in
word meanings.
• Compare and contrast the structure of two or
more texts and analyze how the differing
structure of each text contributes to its
meaning and style.
Journal 12-11-12
• What is your favorite song? Why? Write
down as many of the lyrics as you can. How
does it make you feel?
Poetry in Songs…
• “Never, ever, ever, getting back together…” (Taylor
Swift) = assonance, repetition
• “Baby, you’re a firework…” (Katy Perry) = metaphor,
symbol
• “When I walk on by…” (LMFAO) = consonance,
alliteration
• “I’ll be your platinum, I’ll be your silver, I’ll be your
gold…” (Justin Bieber) = metaphor, symbol
• “Thunder only happens when it’s raining…” (Fleetwood
Mac) = imagery, symbolism
• “people dy’in… people cry’in…” (Black Eyed Peas)
rhyming, rhythm
Poem List
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Like what poem
My ______ is like _______ poem
Inside this…
Quiet Poem
Imagery Poem (similar to the quiet poem)
Soul poem
Turn to your partner and each answer
the following:
• How do you feel about poetry? Do you like it?
Dislike it? Do you get frustrated with poetry?
Words have
power
• Words are powerful: Think of an example of
how words hold power. Be prepared to share
with the class.
- Fire!
The Distant Drum
I am not a metaphor or a symbol
This you hear is not the wind in the trees,
Nor a cat being maimed in the street.
I am being maimed in the street.
It is I who weep, laugh, feel pain or joy,
Speak this because I exist.
This is my voice.
These are my words,
My mouth speaks them,
My hand writes –
I AM A POET.
It is my fist you hear
Beating against your ear.
- Calvin Hernton
Say…
• I notice _____________ in the _______ line,
which means _________________.
• I understand how _____________ means
_____________ because ________________.
• An example of _____________, is
______________________________.
The Distant Drum
• Poems grow out of feelings and thoughts.
• How do people show their feelings and
thoughts?
• Think about how we use our senses to help
describe feelings….
My feelings in a poem
• I like December
• It is fun to cozy up inside with loved ones and
watch a movie or drink a warm drink by the
fire
• I love the smell of Christmas trees
• I love the anticipation of the holidays
• It seems longer than other seasons
Free Verse Poem about December
December is like a gentle, constant rain
Time stands still
Waiting, enjoying, anticipating, talking
Watching movies you get to see only one time a
year
The best part is never knowing if snow will fall
Enough….
To cancel school
December is like a gentle, constant rain
Journal 12-12-12
• Make a list of all of
the poems that you
know or that you can
remember reading or
hearing about.
• Name as many poets
as you can and try to
write down anything
that you remember
about him or her.
Poems and Drawings
by Shel Silverstein
Use your imagination…
• Close your eyes and imagine that you are in a
dark room. A color is going to come into the
room and rip through your bodies. It is going
to make you either hot or cold because colors
can do this. The color is bright orange.
Imagine your blood this color, your heart
pumping bright orange through your veins,
snaking through your body to the tips of your
toes and fingers.
Imagine bright red
• What does it sound like?
Working Warm-up 12-13-12
• Study root words for the first 10
minutes of class.
• Test tomorrow.
Next, imagine you are angry…
•What does it taste like?
• Finish the following “Like what” similes about the
emotion of anger with your group. This is just for
practice. Stand when you are done!
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Hot like?
Cold like…
Sounds like…
Taste like…
Smells like…
Looks like (shape, size)…
Texture like (rough, slimy)…
Moves like….
Anger can be:
Red like tomato sauce boiling over on the stove
Gray like a rumbling storm cloud
Cold like icicles hanging from slimy gutters
Cold like someone who ignores you
Smells like skunk
Tastes like rotten eggs
Slithers like a cobra through my brain, giving me
poisonous thoughts
Rough as sandpaper, sharp as porcupine quills
Poem #1
• Emotion/Like What Poem
• Each table group pick an emotion and then act
it out in front of the class.
• Each student should choose one of the
emotions acted out and then write a poem
using the “Like what” list.
Poem #1
• Emotion/Like What Poem
• Your turn! Pick an emotion and then write a
poem using the “Like What” format.
Emotions
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Excited
Confused
Embarrassed
Surprised
Joyful
Nervous
Sad
Scared
Happy
Shy
Depressed
In Love
Other?
4 rules when writing poetry
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Don’t worry about your spelling
Don’t worry about erasing
Don’t worry about being neat
Don’t worry about rhyme
Guide to Revising a Poem
Did I express myself completely? What ideas
could I add to enhance the mood or develop my
feelings about the topic?
Have I used a few different poetic elements? (See
pink resource)
Is my word choice descriptive? What “stale”
words could I change? Can I elaborate in certain
parts of the poem by adding “where, when, or
how”?
Is my spelling correct?
Create final copy. The presentation of your poem
should convey the mood or theme of the poem.
Frustration
Hot like the searing blood
Boiling my veins,
Cold like icy fingers slowly choking
My patience,
Sounds like the constant chatter of
Clueless students,
Smells like an eternal hallway clouded with
Axe body spray,
Tastes like a constant barrage of sweet
When all I really want is
Savory.
It squeezes,
Erupts,
Twists –
Swarms like mosquitoes hovering over your ears
Right before falling asleep,
A ceaseless itch just out of reach…
Journal 12-17-12
• What is a simile?
• Write down three examples of similes in
your journal.
• Why do we want to use similes in
poetry?
Flint
An emerald is as green as grass,
A ruby red as blood;
A sapphire shines as blue as heaven;
A flint lies in the mud.
A diamond is a brilliant stone,
To catch the world's desire;
An opal holds a fiery spark;
But a flint holds a fire.
Christina Rossetti
1830-1894
Similes
• What does your hair feel like?
– Smooth like…
• What is the palm of your hand like?
– Soft like…
Simile Poem
My _________ is like
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My _________ are like _______________________________
My __________ are __________________________________
My ___________ is __________________________________
My heart holds _____________________________________
(feeling)
That is ____________ as _____________________________
(color)
I live in ____________________________________________
And eat ___________________________________________
My classroom is like a whirling windstorm,
whipping ideas and thoughts through the air
My students are like kites flying in the sky
My powerpoints are the strong string of safety
My whiteboard is a beacon of information
My heart holds hope that is as bright as silver
I live in wisdom
and eat knowledge.
Journal 12-18-12
Thinking about how we use words to express
ourselves, think about professions that
depend on words.
What jobs are there that require you to be good
at speaking and/or writing. What jobs do not
require words as much?
Which jobs would you rather have and why?
Vocabulary
• Continue reviewing for the cumulative root
word test, covering lists 1-6.
• Test Day = Friday 1/11/13
Journal #3
O Captain! My Captain!
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O Captain my Captain! our fearful trip is done,
The ship has weathered every rack, the prize we sought is won,
The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting,
While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring;
But O heart! heart! heart!
O the bleeding drops of red,
Where on the deck my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead.
O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells;
Rise up--for you the flag is flung for you the bugle trills,
For you bouquets and ribboned wreaths for you the shores a-crowding,
For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning;
Here Captain! dear father!
This arm beneath your head!
It is some dream that on the deck,
You've fallen cold and dead.
My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still;
My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will;
The ship is anchored safe and sound, its voyage closed and done;
From fearful trip the victor ship comes in with object won;
Exult O shores, and ring O bells!
But I, with mournful tread,
Walk the deck my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead.
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-Walt Whitman
Metaphor
• Metaphors are another
way to look deeper, to
see something in a
different light…it is a tool
to make the ordinary
extraordinary, a way to
make the images in your
poem more vibrant and
colorful.
• O Captain! My Captain is
an extended metaphor
about what?
To Look at Anything
by John Moffitt
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To look at any thing,
If you would know that thing,
You must look at it long:
To look at this green and say,
"I have seen spring in these
Woods," will not do - you must
Be the thing you see:
You must be the dark snakes of
Stems and ferny plumes of leaves,
You must enter in
To the small silences between
The leaves,
You must take your time
And touch the very peace
They issue from.
~ John Moffitt ~
• Look at your pencil. Using your unbelievably
creative imaginations, think about what is
‘inside’ your pencil (besides lead and wood).
Inside this pencil
crouch words that have never been written
never been spoken
never been thought
They’re hiding
They’re awake in there
dark in the dark
hearing us
but they won’t come out
not for love not for time not for fire
Even when the dark has worn away
they’ll still be there
hiding in the air
Multitudes in days to come may walk through them
breathe them
be none the wiser
What script can it be
that they won’t unroll
In what language
would I recognize it
Would I be able to follow it
to make out the real names
of everything
Maybe there aren’t many
it could be that there’s only one word
and it’s all we need
it’s here in this pencil
Every pencil in the world
is like this
The Unwritten
Go Inside
• “look inside” something using your
imagination.
• Take notes first before you begin writing
• If you are not sure how to start then begin
your poem with: Inside this….
Journal 12-19-12
• Think about some of your favorite things to
eat. Use all five of your senses (seeing,
hearing, touching, tasting, and smelling) to
describe what it is like to eat these foods.
• Focus on creating an image in the mind of the
reader.
Lesson 4
• We experience much of life through our senses, the
flicker of a candle, the smell of wood smoke on a
winter night, the taste of raspberries warm from the
sun. We hear wind rattle windows and feel scratchy
burlap. The use of vivid language to convey
sensations is called imagery and it helps us to
experience fully what we read.
Swift Things Are Beautiful
Swift things are beautiful:
Swallows and deer,
And lightening that falls
Bright-veined and clear,
Rivers and meteors,
Wind in the wheat,
The strong-withered horse,
The runner’s sure feet.
And slow things are beautiful:
The closing of day,
The pause of the wave
That curves downward to spray
The ember that crumbles,
The opening flower
And the ox that moves on
In the quiet of power.
Journal 12-19-12
Write down three images that remind you of
quiet.
Use your mind like a camera: what does it see
for quiet?
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Image 1
Image 2
Image 3
Image 4
– And me
(ending)
Quiet Poem
Student Example:
Snake scales slithering against a tree
Rain sprinkling on frosty grass
The sun drifting behind snow capped mountains
Crickets at night
A cool midnight breeze
And me
Imagining it all.
Now you will write your own imagery poem
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Loud
Dark
Silent
Morning
Night
Waiting
Calm
Anxious
Jealous
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Take a dive into
the soul
• Examine the card given to
you. Dive into its world
and let it surround
you…where are you?
What does it feel like?
What colors attack your
vision? What kind of
sounds invade your ears?
What aromas sneak into
your senses?
• Create a poem, dripping
with imagery, about your
card. Engross your reader
into your world.
Journal 12-20-12
• What are some of your favorite sounds and
smells? Think about different seasons and the
different sounds and smells that come along
with each season.
• Make a list and describe what you like about
them.
• Look at the poem,
Joyful Noise,
Lesson
5 and find all of
the metaphors, similes, and imagery that you
can find.
• Keep a list in your journal of metaphors,
similes, and imagery that you find in the
poem.
Grasshoppers
Sap’s rising
Grasshoppers are
hatching out
Autumn-laid eggs
Ground’s warming
Grasshoppers are
hatching out
splitting
Young stepping
into spring
Grasshoppers
hopping
high
Grasshoppers
jumping
Grasshoppers
hopping
Grasshoppers
jumping
far
Vaulting from
leaf to leaf
stem to stem
leaf to leaf
plant to plant
stem to stem
Grass-
leapers
Leapers
Grass-
bounders
bounders
springers
Grasssoarers
Leapfrogging
longjumping
grasshoppers
Grassspringers
soarers
Leapfrogging
longjumping
grasshoppers
Musicality of Poetry
• Remember that poetry takes a look at
something twice, to go beyond the literal.
• In partners, read “Joyful Noise”, which takes a
second look at insects.
• Best duo that recites poem wins a prize!
Lesson 6
• What is your favorite type of weather?
Describe it and talk about what you like about
it and what you dislike about it?
Strong Verbs
• Verbs are the
most powerful
words in a
sentence; they
are the only ones
that can stand by
themselves in a
sentence.
• The old man walks into the room.
• The little girl walks into the room.
Remember to think about mood, size,
age, character, etc.
• On your white boards, write more specific
words to describe the following:
– Rain
– Snow
– Heat
– Thunder
Hurricane
All night
the wind
poured
through the trees,
roared like a waterfall, tugged and tore.
In the morning light
the stunned
trees
looked down on
tattered leaves
heaped in
brown hills
torn twigs
flung in barbed wire
tangles
battered
branches
crossed like swords.
• Notice the placement of the words – if you
want a word to have more power, place it on a
line by itself.
• If you want your reader to pause, start a new
line. Direct your readers; make them slow
down and listen to what you have to say.
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Slashed Skies
Red Screams
Wobbly Feelings
A Nightmare’s __________________
Liquid Lies
Plastic Words
Hushed Wisdom
Silent _________________
Purple Pain
Plaid Jazz
Secret _________________
Green _________________
Broken ___________________
_______________ Dreams
_______________ Whispers
Charred ___________________
Brass Sunshine
Desert Burning
From yellow to flesh color:
the land is charred language.
There are invisible spines, there are thorns in the eyes.
Three satiated vultures
on a pink wall.
It has no body no face no soul,
it is everywhere,
crushing all of us:
this sun is unjust.
Rage is mineral
Colors
are relentless.
Unrelenting horizon.
Drumbeats drumbeats drumbeats.
The sky blackens
like this page.
Scattering of crows.
Impending violet violences.
The sand whirles up,
thurnderheads, heards of ash.
The chained trees howl.
Drumbeats drumbeats drumbeats.
I pound you sky,
land I pound you.
Open sky, closed land,
flute and drum, lightning and thunder,
I open you, I pound you.
You open, land,
your mouth filled with water
your body gushes sky,
You crack, land
and burst,
your seeds explode
the word grows green.
• Using one of the titles from the previous slide,
write your own poem, making sure to use
strong verbs, imagery, similes and metaphors.
Daily Inquiry Journal
• What are some of your most vivid memories
from childhood? Think about people and/or
experiences that you still remember today.
Make a list and try to add in a few details to
help remember the experiences a little bit
better.
• Examples: My grandmother letting me wear
makeup, trips to California to visit family,
gymnastic lessons, climbing the neighborhood
tree…
Daily Inquiry Journal
• Thinking about your childhood and some of
your memories, which experiences in your life
would you like to relive? What would you do
differently and why? Would it change your life
now?
“Experience” Poem
• Poetry should be about something that
inspires you or something that you
know…something that runs from your heart
and soul. Today you will write a poem about
your experiences growing up. Make the
ordinary extraordinary.
• Remember to use strong verbs, specific and
vivid similes/metaphors.
Piano Lessons
I used to sit at piano lessons
and cry
or hear my sister’s crying
In the other room.
The old woman would snap
and say tight-lipped
“you are no good. What is wrong with you.”
But every year she would invite us
to her dogs’ birthday party.
Only the dogs got hats.
And in the summer
her funny smell would fill
The screen porch
where we waited our turns
to be defeated.
I would sit in the hammock
with the green terry cover.
And the candy in those
crystal dishes
(we never really knew if it
was there to eat)
it always tasted a million years old.
Best Tree
I used to climb
the tall catalapa tree
and hide.
Over
and
Under
fat, cumbersome leaves
would shelter me
from too much sky above
too much brother
underneath.
Sometimes
I’d climb so high
the limbs
got thin.
Breeze-blown, they’d
sway like arms,
Rocking,
they cradled me,
while I gazed at the sun
through the underside of the leaves
and dreamed
my fingers were feathers,
my arms were wings
“Experience” Poem
• I used to __________ and __________
• Remember to use strong verbs, specific and
vivid similes/metaphors.
• Use details that help the reader be there with
you for the experience.
Daily Inquiry Journal
Think about if this school was going to make a
time capsule for the first year of South
Meadows. What do you think should go
inside that would best represent this year so
far. Think about popular trends of the year,
books, movies, objects, and anything else that
would help people find out about more about
our school and the people who attend.
What’s in my Journal
• Make a list of ten of the most important objects
in your life right now (ex: phone, lip gloss,
snowboard).
• Make a list of ten of the most important people
and/or animals in your life right now.
• Make a list of ten of the most important
activities, hobbies, or sports in your life right now.
What’s in my Journal
Odd things, like a button drawer. Mean
thing, fishhooks, barbs in your hand.
But marbles too. A genius for being agreeable.
Junkyard, crucifixes, voluptuous
discards. Space for knickknacks and for
Alaska. Evidence to hang me, or to beatify.
Clues that lead nowhere, that never connected
anyway. Deliberate obfuscation, the kind
that takes genius. Chasms in character.
Loud omissions. Mornings that yawn above
a new grave. Pages you know exist
but you can’t find them. Someone’s terribly
Inevitable life story, maybe mine.
- William Stafford
What’s in My Journal
Student Examples
A Brinks truck on its side, greenbacks
and Ben Franklins pouring
from smashed safes. Blades of knives,
a smoking gun, and a flame
that never dims or fades.
Cats prowling around an eight-lane
pool filled to the brim with lemonade.
On the serious side; sick humor a destructive passion Satan himself can’t
match.
But also the side of the room
draped in shadow – a foreboding mix
of darkness and deceit. Well,
kind of.
- Niall Janney
What’s in My Journal
Spit-drenched tennis balls and a pungent
stench. “Lost” with a heart drawn around it on every
blank surface. The lingering scent of Burberry Brit
that stains our upstairs for all eternity. Quizzes
from trashy magazines Who’s your celebrity sister?
And, Are You the Party Girl or the Wet Blanket?
Dead goldfish: Judy, Whoopie, Francis. Camp memories:
sailing with Schmidt and Olivia;
plunging into the gleotricia-infested lake. Page upon page
of possible future signatures. Sketches
of celebrities from the best-dressed section of Teen People.
And still sleeping soundly when the clocks read 11:30am:
a glance into my twelve pages.
- Anna Jaeger
• Now you write a poem about what is in “your
journal.”
• Take a verbal snapshot of who you are at this
moment.
• The title of your poem should be, What is in My
Journal.
Daily Inquiry Journal
• Describe your family. Who is in it? Think of a
few unique qualities of your family.
• Describe your friends. Who do you consider a
friend and why? What are some fun
experiences you have had together.
Family and Friends
• The topic of family can be funny, serious, sad,
or joyous.
• Everyone has a “family” – it doesn’t have to be
a traditional family but anyone or anything
that brings you comfort and support.
• Sometimes we don’t have the best families
and that is ok to write about.
• Poetry allows you to write about anything and
everything that you want.
Listening to Grownups Quarreling
Standing in the hall against the
wall with my brother, blown
like leaves against the wall by their
voices, my head like a ping pong ball
between the paddles of their anger;
I knew what it meant
to tremble like a leaf.
Cold with their wrath, I heard
the claws of the rain
pounce. Floods
poured throughout the city,
skies clapped over me,
and I was shaken, shaken
like a mouse
between their jaws.
The Portrait
My mother never forgave my father
for dying,
especially at such an awkward time
and in a public park,
that spring
when I was waiting to be born.
She locked his name
in her deepest cabinet
and would not let him out,
though I could hear him thumping.
When I came down from the attic
with the pastel portrait in my hand
of a long-lipped stranger
with a brave moustache
and deep brown level eyes,
she ripped it into shreds
without a single word
and slapped me hard.
In my sixty-fourth year
I can feel my cheek
still burning
• Write your own poem about family or friends
• Describe the person that you want to write
about.
– What does s/he look like?
– What are some common actions that s/he does?
– Describe his/her life?
– Describe experiences you have had with him/her
– What do you think your relationship will be like
later in life?
Daily Inquiry Journal
We use words to express ourselves but how do
you think you best express yourself?
Do you like to write? Talk? Perform? Do you
prefer a quieter method of expression?
Do you prefer to express yourself through music,
clothes, hairstyle, etc…?