THE BALLAD OF TOM JOAD by Woodie Guthrie excerpt Tom Joad he got out the old McAlester Pen He got hi

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THE BALLAD OF TOM JOAD  by Woodie
Guthrie(excerpt)Tom Joad he got out the old
McAlester PenHe got his paroleAfter four long
years on a man killing chargeTom Joad come
walkin' down the road, poor boyTom Joad come
walkin' down the road.Tom Joad, he met a truck
drivin' man,And he caught him a rideSaid "I
just got loose from the McAlester PenOn a charge
called homicide,On a charge called
homicide."Well that truck rolled away in a
cloud of dustTommy turned his face toward
home.He met Preacher CasyAnd they had a little
drink.They found that his family was gone,They
found that his family was gone.They found his
mother's old fashioned shoe,and they found his
daddy's hat.And they found little Muley, and
Muley said,

• "they been tractored off by the cats, Tommy
  boy.They been tractored off by the cats."Tom
  Joad, he walked down to the neighbor's farm,and
  he found his family.He took Preacher Casyand he
  loaded up the car,And his mother said, "We got
  to get away, Tommy Boy."His mother said, "we got
  to get away."Now the twelve of the Joads, they
  made mighty heavy load,And Grampa Joad, he did
  cry.He picked up a handful of land in his
  hand.He said, "I'm stayin' with this farm till I
  die.I'm stayin' here till I die."They fed him
  short ribs and coffee and syrup.And Grampa Joad,
  he did die.They buried Grampa Joad by the side
  of the road,buried Grandma on the California
  side.Buried Grandma on the California side.

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1. THE BALLAD

• A poem that tells a story similar to a folk tale
  or legend which often has a repeated line at the
  end called a refrain. Ballads are often sung.

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Garbage

• Grounds (coffee)Apple (core)Rinds
  (mellon)Banana (peel)Anchovies (from a pizza I
  wouldn't eat)Grapes (too ripe to eat)Emptying
  the stinking bag (my job)?
• Bruce Lansky

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2. Acrostic Poetry

• Poetry that certain letters, usually the first in
  each line form a word or message when read in a
  sequence (in a row).

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• 1. Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? 2.
  Thou art more lovely and more temperate. 3.
  Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, 4.
  And summer's lease hath all too short a date.
  5. Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
  6. And often is his gold complexion dimmed, 7.
  And every fair from fair sometime declines, 8.
  By chance or nature's changing course untrimmed
  9. But thy eternal summer shall not fade
  10.Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st,
  11. Nor shall death brag thou wander'st in his
  shade 12. When in eternal lines to time thou
  grow'st. 13. So long as men can breathe or eyes
  can see, 14. So long lives this, and this gives
  life to thee.
• William Shakespeare

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3. Sonnet

• A poem that consists of 14 lines (usually with an
  ABAB rhyme scheme) in which the subject changes
  from line 9 onwards (this divides the poem into
  an octet or 8 lines and a sestet or 6 lines) and
  which ends with a rhyming couplet.

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Triangle

• Iama veryspecialshape I havethree points
  andthree lines straight.Look through my
  wordsand you will see, the shapethat I am meant
  to be. I'm justnot words caught in a tangle.
  Lookclose to see a small triangle. My anglesadd
  to one hundred and eighty degrees, youlearn this
  at school with your abc's. Practice yourmaths
  and you will see, some other fine examples of me.

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4. Concrete Poetry

• Concrete poems are poems that look like the thing
  they are about. So if the poem is about a
  triangle the poem is written in the shape of a
  triangle.

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Poem by Edward Lear

• There was an Old Person of WareWho rode on the
  back of a BearWhen they ask'd, 'Does it
  trot?'He said, 'Certainly not!He's a Moppsikon
  Floppsikon Bear!'

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5. Limerick

• A five line poem usually with the rhyme scheme
  AA/BB/A which starts off in the first line with a
  person and a place and ends with a twist or
  something silly in the last line.

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• After the storm
• A boy wiping the sky
• From the tables
• Darko Plazanin

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6. Haiku

• A Haiku is a Japanese form of poetry with three
  lines.
• The first and third lines have 5 syllables, the
  second line has 7 syllables.
• The first line mentions the season where the poem
  takes place.
• The second sets a scene or points something out.
• The last line tells us something about what is
  being seen that is clever or poignant.