Poetry

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Do you feel like this when you hear the word
POETRY??
Have no fear! Were going to have FUN with it!!!
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What is Poetry?

• What is poetry to you? Lets have a Chalk Talk
  to see
• Write words, phrases, your opinions. Just
  remember..no talking!

POETRY
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Do you like poetry?Do you listen and enjoy the
lyrics to your favorite song, the words in a
great book, quotes from a person you admire, or
the advertising jingle that plays in your head
all day after hearing it once?Then yes, you do
love poetry!
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Bring Your Own Lunch   by Bruce Lansky Dont
eat school lunches not even a lick. They might
make you nauseous. They might make you sick.
Just take a small bite and youll start to feel
ill. If the veggies dont get you, the meatloaf
sure will.
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What is the poet trying to say? How do you
know? Explain in complete sentences.
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I Dream a World I dream of a world where
man No other man will scorn, Where love will
bless the Earth And peace its paths adorn. I
dream a world where all Will know sweet freedoms
way, Where greed no longer saps the soul Nor
avarice blights our day. A world I dream where
black or white, Whatever race you be, Will share
the bounties of the earth And every man is
free. Where wretchedness will hang its head And
joy like a pearl, Attends the needs of all
mankind Of such I dream, my world!
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• What is the poet trying to say about his world?
• How do you know? Explain in complete sentences
  using information from the poem.

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Poetry Toolbox

• In our study of poetry, we will learn these
  terms
• stanza
• line
• rhyme scheme
• refrain

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Basics First Stanza(Think of a stanza like a
paragraph)

• Dont eat school lunchesnot even a
  lick.They might make you nauseous.They might
  make you sick.
• Just take a small bite andyoull start to
  feel ill.If the veggies dont get you,the
  meatloaf sure will.
• There are 2 stanzas in this poem.

Stanza 1
Stanza 2
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Basics First Lines(Think of lines like
sentences)

• 1 Dont eat school lunches2 not even a
  lick.3 They might make you nauseous.4 They
  might make you sick.
• 5 Just take a small bite and6 youll start to
  feel ill.7 If the veggies dont get you,8 the
  meatloaf sure will.
• There are 8 lines in this poem.

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Rhyme Scheme

• Its as easy as ABC!
• Let's Think About Colors!

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Read this poem and decide which words rhyme

• From the book,
• Hailstones and Halibut Bones
• Like acrobats on a high trapeze
• The colors pose and bend their knees
• Twist and turn and leap and bend
• Into shapes and feelings without end

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• 1 Like acrobats on a high trapeze A
• 2 The colors pose and bend their knees A
• 3 Twist and turn and leap and bend B
• 4 Into shapes and feelings without end B
• Rhyme Scheme
• Lines 1 2 rhyme. Lines 3 4 rhyme.
• Line one receives an A. All other words that
  rhyme with Line 1 also get an A. Line 3 receives
  a B. All other words that rhyme with Line 3
  also get an B.and so on! The rhyme scheme here
  is AABB

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• I Dream a World
• I dream of a world where man
• No other man will scorn,
• Where love will bless the Earth
• And peace its paths adorn.
• I dream a world where all
• Will know sweet freedoms way,
• Where greed no longer saps the soul
• Nor avarice blights our day.
• A world I dream where black or white,
• Whatever race you be,
• Will share the bounties of the earth
• And every man is free.
• Where wretchedness will hang its head
• And joy like a pearl,

Remember Find the words that rhyme and
underline them. The first line gets an A..
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I dream of a world where manNo other man will
scorn,Where love will bless the EarthAnd peace
its paths adorn.So the rhyme scheme is ABCB.
A B C B
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You try

• Brown is the color of a country road
• Back of a turtle Back of a toad. Brown is
  cinnamon And morning toast And the good smell
  of The Sunday roast.

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Brown is the color of a country road ABack of
a turtle B Back of a toad. ABrown is cinnamon
C And morning toast DtDoast D And the good
smell of EThe Sunday roast. Droast. D Rhyme
Scheme ABACDED
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REFRAIN
A phrase, line, or group of lines that is
repeated throughout a poem, usually after every
stanza.
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Let the High School Musical teach us about
refrain!!!