Different Types of Poems Objective Students will learn

Different Types of Poems Objective: Students will learn 6 different types of poems. Students will create examples with group members. Students will create a poetry portfolio for a final product with their OWN poems.

Poem A Day! Haiku Limerick Color Cinquain Concrete Free Verse Each Class period I will introduce a new poem. We will do an example together, you will do an example with your group members and you will complete one individually. *Each group will get a poster and you will transfer your groups poems to the poster each class period. Your group will present the poster after we have introduced all of the poems. *Next week you will create your OWN poetry portfolio with examples that you have created!

Haiku. A Japanese Poetic Form 1 st line: 5 syllables that is generally about nature it follows a specific rhythm. 2 nd line: 7 syllables 3 rd line: 5 syllables I walk across sand And find myself blistering In the hot, hot heat

Limerick- A humorous poem with a specific rhythm and rhyme scheme AABBA. Proper Rhythm: Hickory, Dock (A) A mouse ran up the clock (A) The clock struck two (B) So down he flew (B) Hickory, Dock (A) I went to the staffroom one day (A) For a nice cup of tea during play (A) But a troll had got in (B) And was making a din (B) Even though he had nothing to say. (A) A flea and a fly in a flue Were imprisoned, what could they do? Said the fly, "let us flee!" "Let us fly!" said the flea. So they flew through a flaw in the flue. - Ogden Nash

Write Your Limerick 7 - 9 beats There once was a ____ from/named _______(A) 7 - 9 beats Everyday s/he_______ ______(A) 4 – 6 beats So s/he ___________(B) 4 – 6 beats And ____________(B) 7 – 9 beats That ________ from/named ____(A) adjective

Color Poem POETRY PATTERN 1: (selected color) is _____, ______, and ______ (selected color) is the taste of ______ (selected color) smells like _______ (selected color) is the sound of a ______ and ______ (selected color) is a ______, _______ & ______ (selected color) makes me feel _______ (selected color) is ______ Green is apples, markers and cool. (selected color) is _____ Green is the taste of vegetables. Green smells like grass and rain. Green is the sound of a lawnmower and a sign. Green is a garden, forest and a swamp. Green makes me feel envious. Green is renewal.

Cinquain- A poem about a specific thing. 1_______________ a one word title, a noun that tells what your poem is about 2________, _______ two adjectives that describe what you're writing about 3_________, _______ three -ing participles that describe what your poem is about 4_______________ a phrase that tells more about what you're writing about 5_______________ a synonym for your title, another noun that tells what your poem is about Softball Hard, fun Hitting, sliding, running A long winning drive Life

Concrete Poetry- A poem forms a specific shape relating to the subject of the poem.

Free Verse Poem that does not follow a specific rhyme scheme.