8th Grade

Poetry Unit

Part I Introduction to Poetry (638-643) – (Define the poetic terms and give example as needed for Sections 1-4)

  1. Elements of Poetry: (640)
  2. Speaker
  3. Imagery
  4. Figurative language
  5. Metaphors
  6. Extended metaphor
  7. Personification
  8. Similes
  9. Sound devices: (640)
  10. Alliteration
  11. Repetition
  12. Onomatopoeia
  13. Rhyme
  14. Rhythm
  15. Structure of Poetry (641)
  16. Poem
  17. Prose
  18. Lines
  19. Stanzas
  20. Meter
  21. Rhyme scheme
  22. End rhyme
  23. Internal rhyme
  24. Rhyming couplets
  25. Forms of Poetry (642)
  26. Lyric poetry
  27. Sonnets
  28. Rhyme
  29. Meter
  30. Line & stanzas
  31. Odes
  32. Rhyme & rhythm
  33. Lines & stanzas
  34. Elegies
  35. Narrative Poetry
  36. Epics
  37. Ballads
  38. Lines & Stanzas
  39. Free verse poetry
  40. Limericks
  41. Concrete Poem
  42. Haikus
  43. Jacqueline Woodson Poetry (644-648)
  44. Describe Somebody
  45. Theme:

b.  Almost a Summer Sky

i.  Theme:

Part II Poetry Collections – (Read poems, write author’s name, and theme for each of the following collections)

  1. Poetry Collection #1 – Sound Devices (650-659)

a.  Cat!

  1. Author’s Name:
  2. Theme:

b.  Silver

  1. Author’s Name:
  2. Theme:

c.  Your World

  1. Author’s Name:
  2. Theme:
  3. Poetry Collection #2 – Sound Devices (660-667)
  4. The Drum (for Martin Luther King, Jr.)
  5. Author’s Name:
  6. Theme:

b.  Ring Out, Wild Bells

  1. Author’s Name:
  2. Theme:

c.  Thumbprint

  1. Author’s Name:
  2. Theme:
  3. Poetry Collection #3 – Figurative Language (670-679)

a.  Concrete Mixers

  1. Author’s Name:
  2. Theme:

b.  Harlem Night Song

  1. Author’s Name:
  2. Theme:

c.  The City Is So Big

  1. Author’s Name:
  2. Theme:
  3. Poetry Collection #4 – Figurative Language (680-687)

a.  Little Exercise

  1. Author’s Name:
  2. Theme:

b.  Ode to Enchanted Light

  1. Author’s Name:
  2. Theme:

c.  The Sky Is Low, the Clouds Are Mean

  1. Author’s Name:
  2. Theme:
  3. Poetry Collection #5 – Lyric & Narrative (714-725)

a.  Old Man

  1. Author’s Name:
  2. Theme:

b.  Runagate Runagate

  1. Author’s Name:
  2. Theme:

c.  Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind

  1. Author’s Name:
  2. Theme:
  3. Poetry Collection #6 – Lyric & Narrative (726-737)

a.  The New Colossus (Compare to Gift Outright)

  1. Author’s Name:
  2. Theme:

b.  Paul Revere’s Ride

  1. Author’s Name:
  2. Theme:

c.  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  1. Author’s Name:
  2. Theme:
  3. Poetry Collection #7 – Imagery (740-753)

a.  January

  1. Author’s Name:
  2. Theme:

b.  New World

  1. Author’s Name:
  2. Theme:

c.  For My Sister Molly Who in the Fifties

  1. Author’s Name:
  2. Theme:
  3. Poetry Collection #8 – Imagery (754-761)

a.  Your little voice/Over the wires came leaping

  1. Author’s Name:
  2. Theme:

b.  Drum Song

  1. Author’s Name:
  2. Theme:

c.  Grandma Ling

  1. Author’s Name:
  2. Theme:
  3. Comparing Poetry (772-779)

a.  The Road Not Taken

  1. Author’s Name:
  2. Theme:

b.  O Captain! My Captain!

  1. Author’s Name:
  2. Theme:

c.  Similarities Between The Road and O Captain :

iv. 

d.  Differences Between The Road and O Captain:

iv. 

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