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Poetry Anthology

As our poetry unitdraws to a close, you will create an anthology to showcase your work and studies during April and May. Over the course of the last few weeks, you have read different forms of poetry and created many of your own poetic pieces…now it is time to demonstrate what you have learned and produced! For each of the requirements, you are expected to use the poems you have already written in class, and simply edit and/or make changes to them. If you would like to start from scratch, however, and re-write any of the required poems, you may do that as well. Remember: Everyone is a poet, and anything can be a poem…POETRY!!!

Poetry Anthology Requirements and SEQUENCE:

  • Cover Page
  • Personal poem inspired by Shel Silverstein’s “One Inch Tall”
  • “Charge of the Light Brigade” inspired Heroes possess courage and honor poem
  • “The Women’s 400 Meters” and “To James” inspired Fight to the Finish poem
  • Three SPRING haikus (all on one page)
  • e.e. cummings inspired controversial topic/controversial style poem
  • “Highway Man” inspired love narrative poem
  • Word poems (two total: inspired by song lyrics, can both be on the same page)
  • Table lyric pass poem
  • Ode
  • “First Last” You Pick poem
  • “Second Last” You Pick poem
  • Blackout article poem
  • Afterword

Cover Page: Your cover page should include a creative title for your anthology, your first and last name, and turn-in date. It should be visually appealing and include color and pictures.

Personal Poem: Your Personal Poem must have a creative title which you wrote BEFORE composing the poem. The poem must be three stanzas of at least 4 lines each and must include: two separate examples of rhyme, an example of hyperbole, at least two lines of repetition (word, phrase, or entire line) only using the words provided on the worksheet.

Courage and Honor poem: Must include a creative title and relate to theme:Heroes must possess courage and honor. Compose a poem about someone you view as a hero (family member, friend, community figure, celebrity, athlete, political figure) and be sure to show how they are honorable and courageous (specific events/multiple events.) The person you write about can be alive or deceased. Must be three stanzas, at least four lines per stanza. Must have an obvious rhyme scheme throughout.

Fight to the Finish poem: Must include a creative title. Create a three stanza, three lines per stanza, (nine line total) poem about an event, or competition that requires effort or motivation of some kind: a fight to the finish. It does not have to rhyme (can be prose.) You can be involved in the event or a spectator/observer. You must focus on one specific time related to the event: before it starts, during it, or after it is over.

Haikus (3): Must connect to three specific aspects of spring (a feeling, a certain moment, an experience, an object, a thing, etc.) You must include a one-word title and three lines of 5-7-5 syllables for each.

Controversial poem: Must include a creative title.Create your own poem in the style of e.e. cummings: controversial topic and controversial style. This should be a topic that not everyone agrees or sees eye to eye on, and not a style that everyone would understand when they read it the first time. Be creative with how you present it as far as font size, style, color, and placement on page.

Narrative poem: Must include a creative title. Must be at least eighteen lines and must be a story about something dealing with love: family, friends, a food or place you love, re-telling a love story from a movie, book, or song, etc. Must tell a story and include the rhyme scheme: AA B CC B, DD E FF E, GG H II H.

Word poems: Choose two different words from the favorite song lyrics you brought in that stick out to you. Think about the message the word sends, synonyms for the word, a situation the word could exhibit (different from your lyrics.) Each word poem should be 8-12 lines and does not have to rhyme. The title of these poems should be the word(s) you are describing.

Lyric pass poem: This should be the poem that you created when working in your table group, passing poems, and taking specific lines from each to create a new poem. Please include a creative title for this poem as well. This should be four stanzas of four lines each, 16 lines total.

Ode: Must be about a person, place, or thing that you feel deserves to be glorified/praised. The ode must be 10+ lines and must describe why and how the noun is so special to you. Consider: how it impacts the five senses, explanation of the importance, rhythm and rhyme.

First of four “You Pick Poems”: Tetractys, Cinquain, Rhyming Riddle, and/or Diamante.

Second of four “You Pick Poems”: Tetractys, Cinquain, Rhyming Riddle, and/or Diamante.

Blackout Article poem: Every word of this poem should come from an article that you found on the internet, in a newspaper, or magazine. You must physically blackout the words that you do not need and only leave the words that flow together to make a poem. This must be at least 10 words long.Print it or copy/scan it, so the poem is included in its original blackout form (do not retype.)

Afterword: On this page, you should summarize the importance of this unit to you. Even if you do not enjoy poetry, describe what you will be taking away from this unit. You might think of: specific poems we read that you enjoyed, specific poets you enjoyed, figurative language or poetic terms you learned, how anything about this unit (themes, messages, information) will help you in the future, how your opinion of poetry changed or stayed the same, the reason why we study poetry etc. The Afterword should be at least five sentences.

Other Requirements:

  • ***Please make sure all poems are placed in your anthology in the order in which they are listed at the top of this sheet***
  • Please number all of your anthology pages and be sure the correct requirements (listed above) are apparent in each poem.
  • Please make sure ALL poems have a visible and clear creative title as well as category title
  • Please make ALL pages colorful and appealing to the eye (feel free to include pictures, photos, word art, creative but legible fonts, etc.) Also consider printing on colorful paper.
  • All poems (with the exception of your controversial poem) must be typed and your anthology must be bound by something (staples, hole punched/tied with string, put in a binder.)
  • Your anthology will be worth a total of 70 points for the fourth marking period.
  • All anthologies will be due on Monday, May 22, 2017.