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1. Poetry Across The Curriculum: An Introduction (K-8)Workshop Description And Supplies In NotesCreated By Thomas J. PalumboFor The Catapult Learning Series

2. Poetry Across The Curriculum: An Introduction (K-8)Created By Thomas J. PalumboFor The Catapult Learning Series

3. Workshop Objective 1 To demonstrate a wide variety of enriching, immediately ready to use skill sets, lessons, and activities and help participants to adapt these creative ideas into their poetry and creative writing programs

4. Workshop Objective 2 To introduce the couplet, tercet, and quatrain in time tested and contemporary formats that integrate poetry with the vocabulary, spelling, phonics, mathematics, history, and the critical thinking curriculum

5. Workshop Objective 3 To assist teachers in tiering today’s lessons to meet the needs of the multi-level, regular or special education classroom with a focus on improving remedial, basic, and advanced skills

6. Workshop Objective 4 To create a workshop climate that encourages peer sharing and uses the experiences of each participant to further develop the concepts necessary to teach poetry and creative writing to all students

7. Workshop Objective 5 To introduce our on-line resource catapultpoetry.wikispaces.com and the additional PowerPoint, lesson, and web site archives that will be available to each participant on this site at the conclusion of today’s workshop

8. Workshop Warm-ups These three starting activities at three different levels and one activity at three levels were designed to activate your critical thinking, creative writing, and integrating poetry across all levels’ skills.

9. Number Couplets (Primary) When I see a one, I draw the sun and wiggle, wiggle. When I see a two, I draw a shoe and wiggle, wiggle When I see a three, I draw a tree and wiggle, wiggle

10. I Am, I Am Not Poetry (Intermediate) This is the perfect starting form for any poetry class be it second grade or senior high gifted. It is also a mini-interest survey for each student in your class after they illustrate the six lines you request for display. This poem is called Thomas: I am cheese pizza, I am not a spice..ee taco. I am theater and plays, I am not television. I am the city’s fast beat, I am not a quiet wood. I am rock and roll, I am not classical or rap. I am frolicking dogs, I am not a friendly cat. I am any crystal beach, I am not picky, am I?

11. Biographical Poetry (Intermediate) The Beach Is: Crashing waves Hot sand Families playing Collecting seashells Avoiding jellyfish Building sand castles Standing in the water, Reading my favorite book, This is my type of heaven.

12. Word Common Denominators (Advanced) How many times have we found simple words in our poems that are far removed from their actual meanings. “Miles to go before I sleep’ doesn’t refer to bedtime.” “Look at my works yea mighty and despair” is not talking about strong people. A ‘common denominator’ describes the point where two ideas/meanings meet. What is common between an Indian and a turkey is feathers; decorated war pilot and cards is ace; Democrats and a luau is a party; submerge and a kitchen is sink. Mastering these common denominator ideas will let you look a little more analytically at a poet’s words and their meaning.

13. Skills Level One A. B. Funny Pig Fat Billy Big Bunny Old Cat Silly Cold

14. Tiering Skills Level Two A. B. Heavy _____ Dark _____ Red _____ Bright _____ Lone _____

15. Tiering Skills Level Three A. B. 1. On and on lyrics _____ 2. Happy father _____ 3. Benjamin’s writing tools _____ 4. A not on time boyfriend _____ 5. Seafood platter _____

16. Brainstorming Some Beginning Thoughts Some starting ideas and lead-ins to creative writing, poetry, and critical thinking for today’s participants to discuss. Getting kids ready for topics like today’s is called “Think-a-cising” or “Brain-a-cising” in our classroom.

17. Before Formal Instruction What activities do we use in the classroom to get children ready for poetry instruction? How much poetry do you use in your literature circles or in your ‘response to literature’ activities? Poetry books are what percentage of your in-classroom library? How can we add to our classroom library? Do you have any favorite poetry websites? Would sending a mini-bag full of books home with each student at the beginning of each month be feasible for your program?

18. Concrete Poetry Concrete poetry is often called picture poetry because words, thoughts, and sentences are put together to form an artistic work or diagram. If you are talking about your house, the words you use will be shaped in the form of a house. Lewis Carroll of “Alice In Wonderland” fame invented concrete poetry by writing a poem about a mouse in the form of a mouse’s body and its tail. Trace a young child’s hand and just write their name around the tracing again and again for a unique first concrete poetry experience or for a gift for the grandparents.

19. Kicking Off With The Couplet A section of multi-level drills, tasks, short and long term projects, and creative writing activities using the couplet. This section represents a wealth of easy to use formats for students to creatively share their ideas.

20. The Thinking Box Before formal instruction begins in creative writing or poetry the concept of the thinking box should be introduced. The thinking box should hold three of the directions your writing or poetry might take.

21. The Couplet A couplet is a poem that contains a rhyme pair. It is two lines of poetry in form A, A or A, B expressed in regular or irregular meter. Try exploring the internal rhyme below. I like to grow, Unique flowers all in a row. The Spain I know, Starts with a guitar refrain.

22. Internal Rhyme/Assonance The Spain I know…Starts with a guitar refrain is a form of internal rhyme. Assonance is another form of internal rhyme. One form of assonance is where the same vowel sound is repeated in two or more words in a poetry line. The Spain I know, Starts with a guitar refrain. Joe grows roses in the Spring For all to touch and see. The tree teetered in the wind. They were wed Wednesday at noon.

23. The Opposite Couplet An opposite couplet is a poem that uses a pair of words that are opposite in meaning to generate the start of a two line rhyme. Sweet and sour, I eat them by the hour. Up and down, The coaster’s the best in town. Left and right, What turn will I make for home tonight?

24. The Advertising Couplet The ‘school to career’ theme can be easily developed by taking an easy poetry concept like the couplet into the advertising world. NIKE is the one, To make all sports fun. X-Box gives you the power, To compete each and every hour. Think Sony widescreen LCD, What everyone needs in a new TV!

25. The Alphabetical Couplet An alphabetical couplet is a poem that uses three consecutive letters of the alphabet and a sports, historical, scientific, or musical theme. A is for Adams, B is for Bush, C is for Coolidge who needed a push. A is for apple, B is for beet, C is for custard a great dessert treat. E is for Elway, F is for Flacco, G is for Gehrard who can’t make a tackle.

26. The Helpful/Healthful Couplet A helpful or healthful couplet is a poem that uses couplet skills to create a helpful or healthful theme or message. It is always right, To be polite. It is really neat, To have clean feet. The apple is a life saver, Great nutrition with plenty of flavor.

27. Color Poetry A large number of poetry books are centered around the theme of color while teaching young children creative writing, vocabulary forms, listening techniques, and rhyming skills. Color Poetry couplets might also include: The color of my bed/Is bright, bright red. Please hand me my shoe/It’s the one that’s blue. The hat I wore to town/Contains two shades of brown. “Our new dish set/Is sprinkled with flowers”, Violet.

28. Criss-Cross Poetry Criss-Cross Poetry is a challenging step into the world of rhyming words and homonyms. It involves criss-crossing a homonyn pair and then placing an illustration depicting both/one word next to the word pair. Sun B Gnu o Beat e n e w t

29. The String Couplet A string couplet is a poem that employs a series of similar words like adjectives or plural nouns in the first line to lead into a key thought in the second line while still using rhyme. Silly, funny, crying, kicking, all wet, Another night babysitting sister Annette. Self-portrait, sunflowers, colors aglow, These are the images of a tormented Van Gogh.

30. Doublets Doublets are poems that have two words in each line. Normally the lines do not rhyme. The two words describe the subject that appears in the title and relate to the theme of the last words. Baseball Game Running, sliding Hits, errors Bats, gloves Fans, stands Cheering, jeering Summer fun.

31. A Touch of the Tercet A quick look at a rhyme form that is a natural bridge between the couplet and quatrain.

32. The Tercet Three lines of poetry in form A, A, A or A, B, A expressed in regular or irregular meter. The Doctor When kids get sick, They often pick, A medicine they can lick.

33. The Tercet Biography The Tercet Biography allows you to pick favorite times of your life or of a famous person’s life followed by three descriptive words. The lines may or may not rhyme. Creating a progression of events is the challenge while experimenting with this form. Allesan Born on June first, Kicking, crying, sighing. Early on had the reading thirst, Stories, poems, adventures. Sports gave an early burst, Baseball, basketball, football.

34. Triangular Poetry Triangular Poems start with one word and progress so that each line has one more word. You can use a rhyme form/or not! School Learning place Gain enough knowledge Literacy you will erase. Help yourself and a friend Many people find education without end..

35. Haiku/Hokku/Tanka This esteemed Japanese form of poetic expression was originally written to express nature, a season or an event. Its format centers on it syllable count. The haiku contains three lines in (5, 7, 5) syllable form. Tanka adds lines of (7, 7). The raining clouds cry. But the thirsty flowers sing, As Spring now arrives.

36. Triangular Poetry Word Art Triangular Words start with one letter and progress so that each line has one more letter added to the line before in any spot. Planet Plane Plan Pan Pa A

37. Quatrain Ready For It All The quatrain is the foundation for 75 per cent of all poetry and a large portion of popular song writing often seen in the formation of the refrain.

38. The Quatrain Four lines of poetry in a variety of forms with A, B, A, B the format most often used. Mastery of the quatrain is a great jumping off point for more involved poetry forms. The Rescue Harriet Tubman is a story that must be told, She saved 1700 slaves by being bold. She was master of the woods and of the night. Philadelphia’s Quakers recorded each flight.

39. The Clerihew Clerihew poems (A, A, B, B) by E. Bentley Clerihew are four line poems that use a person’s name to generate a creative and descriptive writing form. Most clerihews start with just that person’s name. If the key name isn’t easily rhymed like Rick Orange it can be placed anywhere in the first line. Martin Luther King His message of peace and freedom did ring Throughout the land and in all places To every hue and for all the races.

40. The Clerihew…Continued Clerihew poems: William Shakespeare A playwright and a poet…William Shakespeare In his sonnets a ‘dark lady’ did appear. Macbeth, King Lear, Romeo and Juliet might, Keep scholars and readers pondering all night. Try clerihews with singers, actors, cartoon characters, Mother Goose participants as well as inventors, historical figures, famous women, and creatures from mythology and literature.

41. The Beheadment The Beheadment was an activity used by teachers in the 1800’s. It involves writing a four line poem that generates two words whose relation is that the second word is the same as the first except it is missing the first letter that appeared in the first word. Store/tore, Pants/ants, Chop/hop. What two words does the poem below suggest? I ride on tracks, From here to St. Lou. When I come down, An umbrella will do.

42. A Week Of Poetry Adventures Monday I explored the New Jersey shore. Tuesday’s mountain climbing had me huffing for more. Wednesday’s safari arrived home real late. Thursday’s deep sea fishing put nothing on the plate. Friday we’ll find a cave we can scout. Saturday’s water skiing is definitely out. If we don’t swim Sunday, I’ll surely pout.

43. A Week Of Math Adventures Monday I aced the math test. Tuesday I gave body measurement my best. Wednesday’s money problems were a ball. Thursday my team found the area of our hall. Friday we played “What’s My Rule”. Saturday I pretended teaching division in school. Sunday, EveryDay Math was easy to study. I had my dad as my buddy.

44. One More Thought Poetry This poetic form involves the use of an additional descriptive word at the end of a quatrain and after the rhyme scheme is finished. Roses are red, Violets are blue With this ring I give. The promise to always love you_ forever.

45. Acrostic Poetry This form of poetic writing uses a vertical column with a theme (such as a person’s name) to create the surrounding structure of the poem. . A picture, which I hope will Be one that you will like to See. If your mamma should Desire one like it, I could Easily get her one. ____Lewis Carroll

46. Internal Acrostics Internal acrostics can hide a certain school theme like History, Science or Math… You are really delightful. (yard) Send us money, Susan. (sums) Science: My aunt received stockings. (Mars) …or be used as a challenging vocabulary drill.

47. The Prepositional Quatrain This poetic form is four lines long with the first three or last three lines as prepositional phrases. The first or fourth line is the key point the phrases are building to and highlighting. The Prey In the sand, Under the ocean, With hungry eyes, The eel silently waits for dinner.

48. Shakespeare Sonnet Facts He wrote 154 sonnets. The first 126 were written to a young man. The remaining sonnets were written to a mysterious “Dark Lady”. The sonnets seem to be in chronological order…while dedicated to a W. H. They were first published in 1599. Everyone in 1599 was writing sonnets, but Shakespeare was far and away the master.

49. A Quick Paced Poetry Tour How might we use the following forms in the classroom or change them to meet our teaching needs?

50. Alliteration This form of poetic writing uses repeated consonants to leave a more memorable or lasting impression on the reader. We see this form a good deal in advertising (Frosted Flakes, Dunkin’ Donuts). Using this form in your poems will add spice to them. The buzzing bees touched my ears, With honey filled thoughts of food.