Styles of Poetry

1. Styles of Poetry

2. Styles of Poetry Stations • There are seven technical writing stations. • You are required to complete at least one activity at each station. • Once you’ve completed your required piece, you may continue working on any unfinished assignments from previous stations or you may complete an additional activity for extra credit. • You may also illustrate up to two of your poems for extra credit!

3. Styles of Poetry Stations • You will have 20 minutes at some stations and 40 at other each stations. • Any assignments not completed during the time allowed will need to be completed by the beginning of class the following day.

4. Styles of Poetry Stations • You may pair up with someone in your group for any of the activities, but you will need to double the assignment. • For example, if it is a free verse activity that requires 10 lines, you and your partner will need to have 20 lines in your poem. • On the same token, if it is a haiku activity that requires 2 haiku, you and your partner would need to have 4 haiku.

5. Station #1 Couplets, Quatrains, and Limericks (20 minutes)

6. Styles of Poetry Station #1 • Couplet • Write 4 couplets. OR • Write one eight line poem that consists of four stanzas (2 lines each) • Quatrain • Write a quatrain about a time when you were so happy/sad you could barely stand it. • Your quatrain must be at least two stanzas. • Limerick • Write two limericks about anything you’d like.

7. Couplet • A couplet consists of two lines that rhyme and have the same syllable structure.

8. Couplet True wit is nature to advantage dress'd; What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd. — Alexander Pope

9. Couplet "I cannot go to school today."Said little Peggy Ann McKay. "I have the measles and the mumps,a gash, a rash and purple bumps.“ --Shel Silverstein

10. Limerick • A Limerick is a rhymed humorous or nonsense poem of five lines. • The Limerick has a set rhyme scheme of : a-a-b-b-a with a syllable structure of: 9-9-6-6-9. • Syllable structure is the number of syllables per line!

11. Limerick A Good Day I love ta see the morning sunthat's how I tell the days begun.Birds all singing a happy songit tis the place where I belong.Far from school without the nun.

12. Limerick The Man From Aruba There once was a man from Aruba, Whose favorite hobby was scuba. Every day he would wish, He could spear a big fish. But settled instead for canned tuna.

13. Quatrain • A Quatrain is a poem consisting of four lines stanzas with a specific rhyming scheme. • A few examples of a quatrain rhyming scheme are as follows: • abab • abba -- envelope rhyme • aabb • aaba, bbcb, ccdc, dddd -- chain rhyme

14. Quatrain PANIC! AT 6:00 A.M. Which should I choose, red flats or pink shoes? Shoes are better when the weather’s wetter. What do I wear, a hat or a bow in my hair? “the bow looks cute,” said the boy with the flute. Which should I use, a bag that’s small or big and blue? The blue bag holds it all. I just hope I don’t fall. What do I pick, clear gloss or lipstick? Lip gloss will shine, and that is just fine.

15. Station #2 Free Verse, Acrostic, and Didactic (20 minutes)

16. Styles of Poetry Station #2 • Free Verse • Write a free verse poem with at least 14 lines about the topic of your choice. • Acrostic • Write an acrostic poem with at least 14 lines about the topic of your choice. • Didactic • Write a didactic poem with at least 14 lines about the topic of your choice.

17. Free Verse • Free Verse is an irregular form of poetry in which the content free of traditional rules of versification, (freedom from fixed meter or rhyme). • In moving from line to line, the poet's main consideration is where to insert line breaks. Some ways of doing this include breaking the line where there is a natural pause or at a point of suspense for the reader.

18. Free Verse The River's a Kaleidoscope Late on a cool fall nightwhile sitting on the river bankI noticed how the ripples cast a different texture to the setting sunThe colors of the skyjust right for this seasonRed, orange, yellow, purple even a tinge of blueThe river seems to mix themlike a kaleidoscope Seems there is no end to beautyas this endless array goes on and onThen the distant sound of the frogs and cricketskeeping time to this dancing spectacularThen my heart goes quiet my pulse slows downI lay back to thank my maker

19. Acrostic Poetry • Acrostic Poetry is where the first letter of each line spells a word or words.

20. Acrostic C  ontagious,A  biding charm,R  iding around,O  blivious of all,U  nder the carouselS  miling broad,E  xcitementL  asting forever.

21. Acrostic Poetry Christmas Can I make cookies to put out for Santa? Here are the stocking’s to put on the fire place. Read the Christmas cards from mom- mom. I’m going to put tinsel on the tree. Singing Christmas carols are the best. The family is on their way to the Christmas dinner. Making the turkey is a hard task to accomplish. As Christmas day comes eagerness is a major factor. Seeing all the presents under the tree gives me butterflies in my stomach. • Paige, 8th grade, Selbyville Middle School, Selbyville, Delaware.

22. Didactic Poetry • Didactic Poetry is a form of poetry intended for instruction such as for knowledge or to teach. • There are no typical rhyme schemes or other rules for didactic poetry, other than the instructional purpose.

23. Didactic Poetry To Spread Love First Start with acceptance. If you've done any wrongs, Then head to repentance. Second Embrace those most unique. Teach them to use their voices, And not be afraid to speak. Third Spread love to those in need. Make them feel special and open, Your kitchen, bring one in to feed. To Finish Live out your days this way, Not "an eye for an eye". Never listen to what others say.

24. Station #3 Haiku, Cinquain, and Shape/Concrete (20 minutes)

25. Styles of Poetry Station #3 • Haiku • Write a Haiku about anything having to do with nature. • Illustrate your Haiku • Cinquain • Make a riddle using the cinquain format. • The answer to your riddle should be line five of your cinquain. • Shape/Concrete • Create a shape/concrete poetry with at least 50 words.

26. Haiku • Haiku (also called nature or seasonal haiku) is an unrhymed Japanese verse consisting of three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables (5, 7, 5) or 17 syllables in all. Haiku is usually written in the present tense and focuses on nature (seasons). • The 5/7/5 rule is rumored to have been made up for school children to understand and learn this type of poetry.

27. Haiku wrath of the monsoonlightning displays with heavy windshere fast, gone faster

28. Haiku Pink cherry blossoms Cast shimmering reflections On seas of Japan

29. Cinquain • Cinquain is a short, usually unrhymed poem consisting of five lines that follow the rules below: • Line 1: Noun • Line 2: Description of Noun • Line 3: Action • Line 4: Feeling or Effect • Line 5: Synonym of the initial noun.

30. Cinquain Tucson Rain The smellEveryone movesTo the window to lookWork stops and people start talkingRain came

31. Cinquain Angels cherubim kind beyond words they protect and forgive and make feelings of blissfulness angels

32. Shape Poetry • Shape is one of the main things that separates prose and poetry. Poetry can take on many formats, but one of them most inventive forms is for the poem to take on the shape of its subject. So if the subject of your poem is a tree, then the poem's lines would be written so that the poem appears to take on the shape of a tree. • Designing your own shape poem can be simple and fun, but try not to pick anything that would be too difficult at first.

33. Shape Poetry Halloween Halloween  & pumpkins      carved just so.Goblins and ghost, are running around town.Demons,  and devils,  and the witches casting spellsOn this here night,  of all Hallow's eve the children   have funwhile dressing up to           give you a fright. Big kids          and little ones it don't make a                  difference, all they are                   after   is  some candy to eat.   House  after  house                 bags being  filled way into the night.  And street after street,  block after                    block   going for candy and will this ever stop, NO.  Black cats  and  moon   light make the nights come  alive,   Halloweenseason               has now come upon us. While hunted houses are raising  up              all overin each little                     town. And music is playing a deep mournful                      old  sound.What is about this                                                                                                    time of year, cooland  crispy  with leaves of all colors,                                    corn stalks all dried and standing in bundles.  On this night of the year you better watch out,  try not to be scared and let out a big shout.  I love this night where I can dress up  and become an  old creature whom I have only read about.  So Happy Halloween to all and have a good fright.   Boris will be happy to see you having fun, along with his departed friend Igor HA  HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA   HAAAAAAAA

34. Shape Poetry My Body my body is a walking representation the outward visual caption of what it means to be me from the outside looking in at times I hide from you but mostly what you see is what you will get

35. Concrete Poetry • Shape and Concrete Poetry go hand-in-hand; however, Concrete Poetry doesn’t have to take on the particular shape of the poem’s subject, but rather the wording in the poem can enhance the effect of the words such as in this line: an angel tumbling d o w n to earth . . .

36. Station #4 Palindrom and Fibonacci (40 minutes)

37. Styles of Poetry Station #4 • Because of the strict specifications in their format, it would be unfair and unrealistic to set a word and/or line requirement for the poems at this station; therefore, there are no specific requirements for this station other than following the appropriate format to create one of the poetic forms below. • Fibonacci • Palindrome

38. Palindrome • Palindrome stems from the Greek word palindromos: palin, meaning again, and dromos, meaning a running. Combining the two together, the Greek meaning gives us “running back again”

39. Palindrome • A palindrome is word, phrase, or other text whose letters spell the same backward and forward. “Mom” “Wow!” “Poor Dan is in a droop.” “Madam I’m Adam.” “A man, a plan, a canal, Panama!”

40. Palindrome • A word palindrome is made when the words (rather than the letters) of text read the same forward and backward, as in: “So patient a doctor to doctor a patient so.” “Mirrored images reflect images mirrored.”

41. Palindrome Sunrise Mornings fresh and clear makes sunrise spectacular with birds chirping - GLORIOUS - chirping birds with spectacular sunrise makes clear and fresh mornings.

42. Palindrome • A line palindrome is when the individual lines of a text make a palindromic sequence. King, are you glad you are king?Fall leaves after leaves fall.Says Mom, "What do you do?" – You do what Mom says.You know, I did little for you, for little did I know you.First Ladies rule the State, and state the rule: "ladies first."Please me by standing by me please.Blessed are they that believe they are blessed.Escher, drawing hands, drew hands drawing Escher.You can cage a swallow, can't you, but you can't swallow a cage, can you?Did I say you never say "never say never"? You say I did.

43. Fibonacci • Fibonacci poetry is a literary form based on the Fibonacci number sequence. The sequence begins like this: 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21. In order to find the next number in the sequence, you add the two preceding numbers. The sum of these two is the next number, which then is added to the one before it to get to the next number, and so on. This is how it works: 1 + 0 = 11 + 1 = 22 + 1 = 33 + 2 = 55 + 3 = 88 + 5 = 1313 + 8 = 21etc.

44. Fibonacci • The Fibonacci sequence appears often in nature as the underlying form of growing patterns. For example, conch shells and sunflowers follow the pattern as they grow in a spiral formation that increases as it moves outward.

45. Fibonacci • Fibonacci poems can embody the number sequence in two ways, either in numbers of syllables or in numbers of words. • Some people write their poems so that each line contains the number of words of its place in the sequence, and some use the sequence to determine the number of syllables in each line. • Both methods create very visual poems that display this naturally occurring growth pattern on the page (or screen).

46. Fibonacci Must Breathe In, Out Chest Rises, Lungs inflate with air Filter oxygen, then exhale Repeat these steps, without fail, for the rest of your life

47. Fibonacci end of day walk my ear cocked for geese traveling clacking, winging, on their way home

48. Station #5 Figurative Language (40 minutes)

49. Styles of Poetry Station #5 • Complete the figurative language activities from the McDougal Littell textbook. You do not have to complete any of the tables that the books tells you to do. You will only be required to turn in answers to the questions listed below. Remember, all questions should always be answered in complete sentences • Page 461-468–Figurative Language • Page 550-555– Questions A-E– Rhythm and Rhyming • Page 558-563– Questions A-C– End Rhyme and Repetition • Page 566-572– Questions A-B– Imagery and Repetition • Page 580-584– Questions A-D– Repetition, Onomatopoeia, and Alliteration • Page 594-599– Questions A-F– Simile, Metaphor, and Personification

50. Station #6 Vocabulary (40 minutes)