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6 TH GRADE POETRY UNIT

6 TH GRADE POETRY UNIT. Mr. Dan & Ms. Jessica’s English Classes. What is poetry?. QUICK WRITE (5 MINUTES) – ANSWER THE QUESTION ABOVE. CLASS DISCUSSION. Personification. Personification: Giving something that is not a person human traits. Personification.

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6 TH GRADE POETRY UNIT

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  1. 6TH GRADE POETRY UNIT Mr. Dan & Ms. Jessica’s English Classes

  2. What is poetry? • QUICK WRITE (5 MINUTES) – ANSWER THE QUESTION ABOVE. • CLASS DISCUSSION

  3. Personification • Personification: Giving somethingthat is not a person human traits

  4. Personification • The run down house appeared depressed.

  5. Personification • The first rays of morning tiptoed across the meadow.

  6. Personification • YOUR TURN! Write one sentence personifying either the car or balloons.

  7. April Rain Song • Let the rain kiss you • Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops • Let the rain sing you a lullaby • The rain makes still pools on the sidewalk • The rain makes running pools in the gutter • The rain plays a little sleep song on our roof at night • And I love the rain. • by Langston Hughes

  8. The Sky is Low THE sky is low, the clouds are mean, A travelling flake of snow Across a barn or through a rut Debates if it will go. A narrow wind complains all day How some one treated him; Nature, like us, is sometimes caught Without her diadem. Emily Dickinson

  9. Simile • SIMILE: comparing two unlike things using ‘like’ or ‘as’

  10. Simile • Life is like an onion: You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep. – Carl Sandberg Shrek: Ogres are like onions.Donkey: They stink?Shrek: Yes. No!Donkey: They make you cry?Shrek: No!Donkey: You leave them out in the sun, they get all brown, start sprouting little white hairs.Shrek: No! Layers! Onions have layers!(Shrek, 2001)

  11. Simile • They are as alike as two peas in a pod. • She is as cute as a kitten. • Life is like a box of chocolates; you never know what you’re going to get.

  12. Your Turn • Write a simile • describing one of • the images on the • right.

  13. GINKO AND WILLow • The willow is like an etching, • Fine-lined against the sky. • The ginkgo is like a crude sketch, • Hardly worthy to be signed. • The willow’s music is like a soprano, • Delicate and thin. • The ginkgo’s tune is like a chorus • With everyone joining in.

  14. metaphor • A comparison between two unlike things that actually have something important in common.

  15. metaphor • Swords of light pierced through the trees.

  16. metaphor • The puppy was a little white cloud, drifting to sleep.

  17. Your Turn • Write a metaphor • describing one of • the images on the • right.

  18. Alliteration • repetition of the same sound at the beginning of two or more closely associated words.

  19. alliteration • Like loads of laundry lying on the lovely linoleum

  20. Your Turn • Write a line of • alliteration • describing one of • the images on the • right.

  21. hyperbole • A very large exaggeration of the truth

  22. I ate a spicy pepper • I ate a spicy pepper • From my brother on a dare • The pepper caught my hair on fire • And burned off all my hair… • http://eksouth.weebly.com/hyperbole.html

  23. Your Turn • Write a line of • hyperbole • describing one of • the images on the • right.

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