Poetry

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Unit 6

• Poetry
• Looking at the World Through the Eyes of a Poet

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• Writers learn the tools of poetry
• some things poets do to write a poem (see list)

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• Poets find poetry in anything that contains words.

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• Poets use many strategies to discover topics to
  write about

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• Poets use the tools of similes and metaphors to
  write poems

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• Poets use the tool of repetition to write a poem

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• Poets can use personification and other ways to
  come up with topics to write poems about.

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• Poets show their feeling in words

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• Poets use onomatopoeia (words that sound similar
  to their meaning) in their poems

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• Poets prepare to publish their poems using the
  read, touch, find steps to edit writing

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• Unit 6
• Poets Celebrate Their Work