Poetry

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Poetry

• Content Standards
• 6.1.12 Read, view and recognize various literary
  genres (poetry)
• 601.8.13 Identify sound patterns, figurative
  language and other conventions of verse in poetry
  (rhyme scheme, alliteration, onomatopoeia,
  metaphor, simile, hyperbole, personification,
  idioms, limerick, lyric, narrative, haiku)
• 601.8.18 Determine the appropriate meaning of
  figurative words and phrases

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•   
• Food Fight  
• by Kenn Nesbitt   
• Wed never seen the teachersin a state of such
  distress.The principal was yellingthat the
  lunchroom was a _________.
• It started off so innocentwhen someone threw a
  bun,but all the other kids decidedthey should
  join the ____________.
• It instantly turned intoan enormous lunchroom
  feud,as students started hurlingall their
  halfway-eaten ______________.
• A glob went whizzing through the air,impacting
  on the wall.Another chunk went sailing outthe
  doorway to the _____________.
• And so our good custodianran out to grab his
  mop.It took him half the afternoonto clean up
  all the ______________.
• The teachers even used some wordswere not
  supposed to mention.And thats how all the kids
  and teacherswound up in ______________________.

What Words Do You Think Go In The Blanks?
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Objectives

• Today you will
• 6.1.12 Explain the difference between poetry and
  prose
• 6.1.12 Identify stanzas and lines in poetry
• 601.8.13 Read poems and identify sound patterns
  (rhythm and rhyme scheme)
• 601.8.18 Write a 4 line poem with a certain rhyme
  scheme

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Harriet Tubman

• Harriet Tubman was born into slavery. In
  1849, she escaped from a Maryland plantation.
  She would devote the rest of her life to helping
  other slaves gain their freedom. She was a leader
  of the Underground Railroad, a group of secret
  places where slaves could stay on their way
  North. During the Civil War, she served as a
  nurse, cook, and union spy. Tubman died in March
  1913.

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• Harriet Tubman  
• by Eloise Greenfield
• Harriet Tubman didn't take no stuff
• Wasn't scared of nothing neither
• Didn't come in this world to be no slave
• And wasn't going to stay one either
• "Farewell!" she sang to her friends one night
• She was mighty sad to leave 'em
• But she ran away that dark, hot night
• Ran looking for her freedom
• She ran to the woods and she ran through the
  woods
• With the slave catchers right behind her
• And she kept on going till she got to the North
• Where those mean men couldn't find her
• Nineteen times she went back South
• To get three hundred others

Partner/Group Discussion What differences do
you notice between the first Harriet Tubman
passage and the second one? Be prepared to share
your ideas with the class.
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What is Poetry?

• What is poetry? Poetry is a form of art that uses
  words to express thoughts and feelings. It has
  been around for thousands of years and can be
  found in just about every culture on earth. It
  differs from "normal writing" (called prose) in
  several ways. Poems
• look different
• sound different
• often use figurative language

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Poems Look Different

• Prose is written in the form of sentences and
  paragraphs, using correct grammar and
  punctuation.
• Poems, on the other hand, are usually written in
  lines and stanzas (groups of lines). They may or
  may not have punctuation and sometimes regular
  grammar and/or spelling rules are ignored.

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Poems Sound Different

• The two main features which make a poem sound
  different than prose are rhyme and rhythm. A
  rhyme is when two words sound the same (e.g. -
  cat, hat, fat, rat, etc.).
• Some poems will also have repetition, which means
  several words or phrases will be repeated
  throughout the poem.
• Lets read a poem that rhymes.

Read "Trees" by Joyce Kilmer
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Rhyme Scheme
"Trees"by Joyce Kilmer I think that I shall
never see A A poem lovely as a tree. A A tree
whose hungry mouth is pressed B Against the
sweet earth's flowing breast B A tree that
looks at God all day, C And lifts her
leafy arms to pray C A tree that may in
summer wear D A nest of robins in her
hair D Upon whose bosom snow has
lain E Who intimately lives with rain.
E Poems are made by fools like me,
F But only God can make a tree. F

• We can use letters to indicate the rhyming scheme
  of a poem. The rhyming scheme of "Trees" is AA
  BB CC DD EE FF.

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Rhyme Scheme

• Lets look at some other common rhyming schemes!

"The Tyger" by William Blake
You'll love me yet and I can tarry" by Robert
Browning
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Now You Try!

• With your group/partner, read the following poems
  and try to figure out the rhyming scheme. You can
  write on the paper.

"My Shadow" by Robert Louis Stevenson
"Sonnet No. 18" by William Shakespeare
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Rhythm

• Rhythm refers to the musical quality of the poem
  based on which syllables are stressed.
• Lets go back and read Trees and The Tyger
  and discuss the rhythm.

Read "Trees" by Joyce Kilmer
"The Tyger" by William Blake
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Its Your Turn to Write!

• Write a 4 line poem that has the following rhyme
  scheme
• A
• B
• A
• B
• Possible Topics Candy, Rain, Sports, School
• Be prepared to share with the class
• today!

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Bell-work

• Read the 1st poem on the paper and be prepared to
  identify the rhyme scheme.

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Bell Work

• Bell work packet Skim over the speech Four Can
  Be Better Than Five that we read yesterday.
  Then answer 16 17

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Objectives

• Today you will
• 601.8.13 and 6.1.12 Read poems and identify sound
  patterns (alliteration and onomatopoeia)
• 601.8.13 Review characteristics of poetry and
  rhyme scheme

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•   
• Im Staying Home from School Today  
• by Kenn Nesbitt   
• Im staying home from school today.Id rather be
  in ____________,pretending that I have a
  painthats pounding in my head.
• Ill say I have a stomachache.Ill claim Ive
  got the ____________.Ill shiver like Im
  coldand hold my breath until Im blue.
• Ill fake a cough. Ill fake a sneeze.Ill say
  my throat is _____________.If necessary, I can
  throwa tantrum on the floor.
• Im sure Ill get away with it.Of that, theres
  little _____________.But even so, I really
  hopemy students dont find out.

What Words Do You Think Go In The Blanks?
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REVIEW FROM YESTERDAY
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Other Techniques Sometimes Used By Poets To Make
Their Poems Sound Interesting

• Alliteration - repeating words with the same
  beginning consonant sound (Ex - Peter Piper
  picked a peck of pickled peppers...)
• Onomatopoeia - a word that sounds like the sound
  it is describing (Ex - click, buzz, bang, meow,
  etc.) Example Sound Words

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Which sound device is being used in the following
poem?

• The Wonderful Wind
• The wonderful wind whistles
• Repeated reminders throughout the day
• Telling tales of what is coming
• Predicting and preparing us to pray.
• The wise wind sometimes whispers
• The secrets that have been secretly hid.

Alliteration or Onomatopoeia?
___________________
__________________
__________
Alliteration!
________ ________ _____
_________ ________
_______
________
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Discuss the Examples of Alliteration in this poem
with your group/partner

• Leaping Lions
• Leaping Lions leap after lengthy naps.
• They sleepily stretch strong appendages
• To prepare properly for the precious hunt.
• Young, youthful lions
• Gallop gallantly on the grassland plains.
• Then they too sleep serenely after strenuous
• stretching.

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What sound device is being used in the following
poem?

• THE NOISY DAYWhen I went to the park, I
  heard a quackSo I followed the quackingAnd it
  led me to the ducks.Then soon I heard a
  chirpSo I followed the chirpingAnd it led me to
  the tree filled with birds.Then I soon heard a
  buzzSo I followed the buzzingAnd it led me to a
  flower filled with bees.Then I heard a ha haSo
  I followed the ha haAnd it led me to the
  playground filled with kids playing.Soon I
  heard a whisper, whisperSo I followed the
  whisperingAnd it led me to two little kids
  telling secrets.I hope they are not talking
  about me.

Alliteration or Onomatopoeia?
Onomatopoeia!
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Discuss the examples of Onomatopoeia in this poem
with your group/partner
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ReviewWrite your answers on your Ticket Out The
Door

• My Teacher Took My iPod
• A Funny School Poem for Kids
• My teacher took my iPod.
• She said they had a rule
• I couldn't bring it into class
• or even to the school.
• She said she would return it
• I'd have it back today.
• But then she tried my headphones on
• and gave a click on Play.
• She looked a little startled,
• but after just a while
• she made sure we were occupied
• and cracked a wicked smile.
• Her body started swaying.

1. How many stanzas are in this poem?
2. How many lines are in each stanza?
3. What is this poems rhyme scheme?

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Review

• BAKE A CAKE
• 1 cake tins clatter and bang wooden spoons
  tap, tap, tap beat butter and sugar together
  cream, creamy, creamier
• 5 softly sift self-raising flour crack an
  egg, empty contents, splat gurgle milk into
  the mix hand-held egg-beater whirring bake
  the cake for an hour
• 10 lick the bowl, rinse and wash slosh,
  splash water on the floor tip hot cake onto
  rack to cool pipe icing and whipped cream
  plonk strawberries round edge yummy, kids say
  to their mummy

1. What sound device is used in line 2? 2. What
sound device is used in line 4? 3. What sound
device is used in line 5? 4. What are 2 ways
that poems are different from prose?
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Objectives

• Today you will
• 6.1.12 and 601.8.13 Read poems and identify
  figurative language (similes and metaphors)
• 601.8.18 Analyze poems and determine the meaning
  of the figurative language that is being used

The elephant is as happy as a flower in the
morning sunlight. The elephant is a child
discovering the world for the first time.
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How Is This Song Like A Poem?

• You have a copy of the lyrics to a popular
  song called Stereo Hearts by Gym Class Heroes.
• Read the lyrics to yourself and think about
  what we have discussed this week about poetry.
• Be able to answer the questionHow is this
  song like a poem? Can you think of at least 3
  examples of how this song is like a poem?
• Write your ideas on the back of the paper and
  be prepared to share with the class.

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Poems Use Figurative Language

• Ideas can be expressed either literally or
  figuratively.
• The literal meaning refers to the most basic
  meaning, based on an exact meaning of the words.
• The figurative meaning refers to a deeper
  meaning which is quite different from the exact
  meaning of the words.
• For example, if a boy tells a girl, "You are
  making my heart bleed", does he actually mean
  that she is causing blood to flow from his heart
  organ (the literal meaning) or does he simply
  mean that she is making him feel so sad (the
  figurative meaning)?

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Similies and Metaphors

• Two common ways of using figurative language are
  similes and metaphors.
• A simile is a comparison using the words "like"
  or "as.
• A metaphor is when one thing is directly compared
  to another.

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Similes

• "Dream Deferred" by Langston Hughes
• "A Red, Red Rose" by Robert Burns
• "Daffodils" by William Wordsworth

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Similes
With your group, discuss which lines in this poem
have a simile AND what the simile means. The
person in your group with the longest hair will
write the line numbers on a dry erase board.

• Berkley
• 1 Black as midnight,
• Bad as the devil
• With eyes like pieces of dark chocolate,
• 4 He thinks hes king of the world,
• My dog Berkley.
• Hes very much like a pig
• With his pudgy stomach and all.
• 8 Like a leech, hes always attached
• To his next meal.
• Even though hes as bad as the devil,
• Berkley is my best fellow.

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Similes
Now, read the following poem to yourself. DO NOT
discuss it with your group. Write which lines of
this poem use a simile on your dry erase board.
Be able to explain what each simile means.

• Birds
• 1 Chirping non-stop, like a machine in the
  trees, Building their nest like little
  worker bees. They sing their songs, like
  chatter-boxes. 4 As regular as alarm clocks,
  Waking people up each day. They are
  silent at night, Like snakes advancing on
  prey.

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Metaphors

• A metaphor is when one thing is directly compared
  to another.
• Metaphors are sometimes hard to spot and take
  some thinking to figure out, but they give
  writers more power to express their thoughts
  about a certain situation.
• "I am a rainbow" is a example of metaphor because
  it is comparing two nouns, a person, and a
  rainbow, but does not use like or as.

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Metaphors

• Love Is
• Love is a burning candleIt's not always
  easy to handleIt burns, but it's still
  beautifulAnd it makes celebrations oh so
  meaningfulIt's a sunsetBurning with romanceA
  song...That makes you want to dance...

Love is being compared to a burning candle
WITHOUT using like or as
Love is also being compared to a sunset WITHOUT
using like or as.
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Metaphors

• Metaphor for a Family
• My family lives inside a medicine chest
  Dad is the super-size band aid, strong and
  powerfulbut not always effective in a crisis.
• Mom is the middle-size tweezer,which picks
  and pokes and pinches.
• David is the single small aspirin on the
  third shelf,sometimes ignored.
• Muffin, the sheep dog, is a round cotton
  ball, stained and dirty, that pops off the shelf
  and bounces in my way as I open the door.
• And I am the wood and glue which hold us
  all together with my love.

What is Dad being compared to WITHOUT using
like or as?
What is Muffin being compared to WITHOUT using
like or as?
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Objectives

• Today you will
• 6.1.12 and 601.8.13 Read poems and identify
  figurative language (similes and metaphors)
• 601.8.18 Analyze poems and determine the meaning
  of the figurative language that is being used

The elephant is as happy as a flower in the
morning sunlight. The elephant is a child
discovering the world for the first time.
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Do You Remember This?

• Lets look at the lyrics AGAIN!
• Can you find the metaphors?
• As you listen to the song, HIGHLIGHT examples
  of metaphors that are used!
• Be prepared to share what you highlighted and
  explain WHY its a metaphor!
• Stereo Hearts

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Homework
Chocolate Simile Metaphor Snow Simile Metaphor
Love Simile Metaphor Topic of Your Choice Simile Metaphor

• Fold a piece of paper
• into four sections and
• label each section like
• this
• Write one simile and
• one metaphor for
• each topic.

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Objectives

• Today you will
• 6.1.12 and 601.8.13 Read poems and identify
  figurative language (similes and metaphors)
• 601.8.18 Analyze poems and determine the meaning
  of the figurative language that is being used

The elephant is as happy as a flower in the
morning sunlight. The elephant is a child
discovering the world for the first time.
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PLEASE READ

• 1. Find your seat by looking at the card.
• 2. Leave the card on your desk.
• 3. If you blurt out, talk or are disruptive, I
  will come and take your card.
• 4. If you card is taken, you will be written in
  my discipline log.
• 5. I will take your card for missing assignments
  too and log that on the card.
• 6. MR. CREASY WANTS NO ONE IN THE HALLSO DONT
  EVEN ASK TO GO ANYWHERE.
• 7. DISMISSAL- BECAUSE NO ONE CAN BE IN THE HALL,
  YOU WILL STAY IN YOUR SEAT UNTIL YOUR BUS IS
  CALLED. YOU WILL GO TO YOUR LOCKER AFTER YOUR
  BUS IS CALLED. NO EXCEPTIONS. -
• ..

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Simile or Metaphor?Write Simile or Metaphor AND
what each Simile or Metaphor means.

• 1. The baby was like an octopus, grabbing at all
  the cans on the grocery store shelves.
• 2. As the teacher entered the room she muttered
  under her breath, "This class is like a
  three-ring circus!"
• 3. The giants steps were thunder as he ran
  toward Jack.
• 4. The pillow was a cloud when I put my head upon
  it after a long day.
• 5. I feel like a limp dishrag.

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Bell Work

• Bell Work Packet Complete 18-20

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Objectives

• Today you will
• 6.1.12 and 601.8.13 Read poems and identify
  figurative language (hyperbole, personification,
  idioms)
• 601.8.18 Analyze poems and determine the meaning
  of the figurative language that is being used

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Review
As a group, write a 4 line poem about this
picture. Use one of the following types of
figurative language in your poem Alliteration Ono
matopoeia Simile Metaphor
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Hyperbole, Personification, Idioms

• Hyperbole when extreme exaggeration is used for
  emphasis or effect

My Dog His bark breaks the sound barrierHis nose
is as cold as an ice box.A wag of his tail
causes hurricanesHis jumping causes falling
rocks.He eats a mountain of dog foodAnd drinks
a water fall dry.But though he breaks the
bankHes the apple of my eye.
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Which Lines Have Hyperbole?

• Appetite
• In a house the size of a postage stamp
• lived a man as big as a barge.
• His mouth could drink the entire river
• You could say it was rather large
• For dinner he would eat a trillion beans
• And a silo full of grain,
• Washed it down with a tanker of milk
• As if he were a drain.

Do you notice any other types of figurative
language being used in this poem?
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Which Lines Have Personification?

• My Town
• The leaves on the ground danced in the wind
• The brook sang merrily as it went on its way.
• The fence posts gossiped and watched cars go by
• which winked at each other just to say hi.
• The traffic lights yelled, Stop, slow, go!
• The tires gripped the road as if clinging to
  life.
• Stars in the sky blinked and winked out
• While the hail was as sharp as a knife.

Do you notice any other types of figurative
language being used in this poem?
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• Personification - an inanimate object is given
  human qualities or abilities.

Dinnertime Chorus The teapot sang as the water
boiledThe ice cubes cackled in their glassthe
teacups chattered to one another.While the
chairs were passing gasThe gravy gurgled merrily
As the oil danced in a pan.Oh my dinnertime
chorusWhat a lovely, lovely clan!
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• Idiom - an expression that means something other
  than the literal meanings of its individual
  words.
• Cat Got Your Tongue
• I was feeling shy when my uncle came.
• "Has the cat got your tongue?" he said.
• He must have meant, "Why aren't you talking?
• Because my tongue was still in my head.
• Adele Tolley Wilson

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Examples Of Idioms

• Beat Around the Bush
• Bite Off More Than You Can Chew
• Break the Ice
• Butterflies in My Stomach
• Let the cat out of the bag
• Raining Cats and Dogs
• I smell a rat
• Pulling my leg

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Idioms for Idiots

• You can't cry over spilled milk!my mother
  always said.
• Life's not a piece of cake!
• she hammered in my head.
• That's the way it goes, that's the way the
  cookie crumbles
• My mother saved her idiomsfor all my idiotic
  troubles

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Idioms

• With your group, try to think of more idioms!
• You have 5 minutes to make a list of as many
  idioms as you can!
• Be prepared to share your ideas with the class!

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PracticeExit Card- Is it P for personification
or H for hyperbole.

• My homework ran away!
• The light bulb smiled down upon
• me.
• 3. I was so tired I was asleep on
• my feet.
• 4. I am so hungry I could eat a
• horse.
• 5. The pen pirouetted across the page.

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Review

• Lets look at a song you have all heard!
• Firework by Katy Perry
• Lets read the lyrics together. As we are
  reading, make a note next to the lines that use
  figurative language.
• Alliteration A
• Onomatopoeia O
• Simile S
• Metaphor M
• Personification P
• Hyperbole H
• Idiom - I