Genres

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Acrostic
Diamante
Couplets
Poetry
Haiku
Clerihew
Concrete
Nursery Rhymes
Limericks
Cinquain
Free Verse
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Poetry is multi-dimensional

• It is
• Intellectual
• Sensual appeals to the senses
• Emotional
• Imaginative

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Poetrys distinctive elements

• Rhythm flows like a melody and has movement
• Melody sweet or agreeable succession or
  arrangement of sounds
• Imagery mental picture of something
  not actually present
• Form shape a poem of a tree written
  in the shape of a tree

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Poetry in the Classroom

• Nursery Rhymes stories, riddles, lullabies
• Folksongs poems set to music
• Ballads stories set to music
• Couplet a pair of rhyming lines
• Haiku Japanese form of writing poetry
• Free Verse lacks rhyme and pattern
• Cinquains gradually increasing syllables in
  each line. Last line has two syllables
• Limericks Lines 1, 2 and 4 rhyme. 3 and 5 rhyme

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More types of poetry
happy

• Poems set to music folk songs, such as Skip to
  My Lou
• Free verse lacks rhyme and has less predictable
  rhythm
• List poems a list of your favorite
  excuses/complaints, animals, etc.
• Concrete poetry words and phrases arranged on
  paper to capture and extend the meaning written
  in the shape of the subject
• Diamante poem in the shape of a diamond seven
  lines
• Clerihew funny poems about specific people
  teachers, parents four lines long
• Acrostic a word written vertically write a
  descriptive phrase using the first letter of each
  line.

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Folk songs and ballads

• Narrative poetry tells a story set to music
• Tom Dooley

Hang down your head Tom Dooley,
Hang down your head and cry
Hang down your head Tom Dooley, Poor
boy you're bound to die.
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Couplets

• A pair of lines that are usually rhymed

"If the phone rings, hope then still clings.
A child drifted off to sleep After she counted
sheep.
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Haiku

• A poetic form and a type of poetry from the
  Japanese culture.
• Many themes include nature, feelings, or
  experiences.
• The most common form for Haiku is three short
  lines.
• A Haiku must "paint" a mental image in the
  reader's mind.  

A Rainbow Donna Brock   Curving up, then
down.   Meeting blue sky and green
earth   Melding sun and rain.
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Free verse

• Lacks rhyme and has less predictable rhythm

FIRST HORSEBACK RIDE
with her tail and I was helping trying hard to
swat flies with my hand. That was when I
discovered how reins are not like steering
wheels, for no matter which way I turned or
pulled she would only go to the barn.
Nesbitt
I never rode a horse before, until that
sweltering August day riding through the New
England woods the horse was swatting flies
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Cinquain

• Five lines gradually increasing number of
  syllables in each line until the last line
  returns to two syllables.

trianglespointy edgesrevolving, rotating,
anglingTriangles are all different.180
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Limerick

• Some people say that the limerick was invented by
  soldiers returning from France to the Irish town
  of Limerick in the 1700's.
• A limerick must be funny!
• A limerick must tell a story.
• A limerick must have 5 lines.
• A limerick must have a rhyme scheme of aa bb a. 
• A limerick has a specific rhythm.
• Limericks are meant to be funny. They often
  contain hyperbole, onomatopoeia, idioms, puns,
  and other figurative devices.
• The last line of a good limerick contains the
  PUNCH LINE or "heart of the joke."

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Limerick

• Imagine a skunk who proposes,
• To his true love, surrounded by roses.
• It may turn out just fine,
• When she falls for his line,
• But I wonder if flowers have noses?

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List poems

• A good list poem creates a rhythm in both
  structure and content and then breaks
  that rhythmic pattern with an item that is
  surprising.

MY CAR My car is my office,with laptop and
printer and files and cell phone and paper
clips scattered on the floor.
My car is my home, with a sleeping bag and pillowin the trunk, a few changes of clothes, dirty socks and two pairs of shoesstuffed behind the seat,a toothbrush, toothpaste, and an extra razor in the glove box. Andthere is a little fox puppet in the back window in case I get lonely.
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Concrete poetry

• A concrete poem is one that takes the shape of
  the object it describes.

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Diamante

• A diamante is arranged in a diamond pattern with
  7 lines that describes a specific subject, and
  then the opposite of that same subject.

Dreamswonderful, happyenjoying, amazing,
fascinatingrainbows, flowers, dragons,
monstersterrifying, horrifying, shockingscary,
horriblenightmares
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Clerihew

• Clerihews are funny poems you write about
  specific people. They are four lines long.
• The first and second lines rhyme with each other,
  and the third and fourth lines rhyme with each
  other.

Our art teacher, Mr. Shaw, Really knows how to
draw.But his awful paintings Have caused many
faintings.
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Acrostics

• A poem in which special letters spell another
  word.

Panthers growl,Orioles sing, Eagles soar,
Monkeys swing. See? 
Devoted,  On  Guard. 
back-end hello--  wagging.
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Links for Teachers

• http//www.poetry4kids.com/categories
• http//www.poetry4kids.com/index.php
• http//www.poetry4kids.com/modules.php?nameWeb_Li
  nksl_opviewlinkcid1
• http//www.poetry4kids.com/modules.php?nameWeb_Li
  nksl_opviewlinkcid2
• http//falcon.jmu.edu/ramseyil/poeform.htm
• http//www.pbs.org/newshour/extra/poetry/
• http//www.onlinepoetryclassroom.org/
• http//www.webenglishteacher.com/poetry.html
• http//www.kinderplanet.com/music.htm
• http//www.barkingspiderspoetry.com/
• http//www.columbia.edu/itc/eacp/asiasite/topics/i
  ndex.html?topicHaikusubtopicIntromediatypeVid
  eo
• http//www.poetryzone.ndirect.co.uk/teacher.htm

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Links for Teachers

• http//www.geocities.com/Heartland/Lake/4713/tomdo
  oley.html