Poetry Project Format

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Poetry Project Format
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• First Page
• Title Page
• First Last Name
• Class Period
• Poets Name
• Image of the Poet

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• Second Page
• Biographical Paragraph
• Thesis Statement about poet

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• Third Page
• First Poem by poet

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• Fourth Page
• TP-LIT Analysis of Poem One

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• Fifth Page
• Second Poem by poet

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• Sixth Page
• TP-CASTT of Second Poem

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• Seventh Page
• Works Cited Page

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• Eighth Page
• Title Page for Your Personal Poetry Anthology
• Include your First Last Name
• Feel Free to be Creative!

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• Catalogue Poem
• Childhood Experiences
• 10 lines
• No rhyming needed!
• Like Nikki Rosa by Nikki Giovanni

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• Shape Poem
• Attach your handwritten copy of your shape poem
  here.
• Shape should fit the subject
• Like 400-Meter Free Style by Maxine Kumin

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• Hyperbole Allusion Poem
• Free Verse
• 2 hyperboles
• 2 allusions
• At least 20 lines
• Like Ego Trippin by Nikki Giovanni

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• Ode
• 15 lines or more
• To someone or something special to you
• Include figurative language
• Like Ode to my Socks by Pablo Neruda

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• Sonnet
• At least 14 lines
• Formal rhyme scheme
• Rhyme scheme marked on poem
• Like Sonnet 18 by Shakespeare

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• Haiku
• Traditional Haiku format
• 5-7-5
• Features nature
• Like the haiku poems we read by Basho

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• Bio-Poem
• Line 1 First name
• Line 2 One word that describes you
• Line 3 A four word phrase that describes you
• Line 4 Lover of (three or more things or ideas)
• Line 5 Who believes (one or more ideas)
• Line 6 Who wants (three things or ideas)
• Line 7 Who needs (three things or ideas)
• Line 8 Who gives (three things)
• Line 9 Who says (a quote)
• Line 10 Last name

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• POV Poems
• Three Poems each from a different point of view
• Like the burning cross example from class

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Now, put your project together!

• Remember to type the whole paper except the shape
  poem.
• Use proper MLA citation.