SCCS Anatomy/PhysiologyName:
Nutrition Poem and Illustration
Due Monday, April 25
For this assignment, you will need to research the nutritional value, morphology, taste, texture, uses, and other characteristics of a vegetable or fruit of your choice. Using the fruits of your research (pun intended), you will create an ode to your food item.
Your final product should be a TYPED poem. This should be accompanied by an illustration (either hand-drawn or clip art) that complements your poem. All work should be on 8.5”x11” paper (standard notebook/printer paper). Make sure to list your source if you use clip art.
Choose from the following types of poems:
ABC Poems
The ABC or alphabet poems have the first line of each line of the poem based on a section of the alphabet or all 26 letters. Usually, the ABC poems have five lines starting with A and ending with E.
Acrostic Poems
Acrostic poems spell a word with the first letter of each line of the poem. The length of the lines can vary. The example acrostic poem bellow spells ball.
Bouncing up and down
All sizes and shapes
Lively play and exercise
Let loose, toss, and throw
Ballads
The ballad means "dance songs." Ballads usually tell a story, using four line quatrain stanza with an ABCB rhyme scheme where lines two and four rhyme. Some ballads have more than one quatrain.
Cinquain
A cinquain is a five-line poem. Line one has one word and is the title. Line two describes the title in two words. Line three uses three words to express action. Line four uses four words to express a feeling. Line five uses one word that restates the title.
Concrete Poems
A fun type of poetry to write is shape poetry or concrete poems. These types of poems take the shape of the topic of the poem. Poems can come in the shape of popsicles, umbrellas, baseballs, light bulbs, etc.
(more poetry types on back )
Elegy
An elegy is a sad, solemn poem written when someone dies, to lament for the person who died. A traditional elegy has three basic parts: an expression of grief, praise for the recently deceased, and then comfort and support.
A few famous elegies are, "O Captain! My Captain!" by, Walt Whitman, "In Memory of W. B. Yeats" by W. H. Auden, and "Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard" by, Thomas Gray.
Free Verse Poem
A free verse poem means that it does not follow any rigid rules of rhyme, pattern or meter. However, a great free verse poem will have some type of rhythm. It will also use poetic devices, such as metaphors, similes, personification, onomatopoeia, etc.
"Song of Myself", "I Dream'd in a Dream", and "I Hear America Singing" by Walt Whitman are two famous examples of this type of poetry. A more contemporary poem with the middle school audience in mind is "Sunday Night Meltdown" by Kristine O'Connell George.
Haiku
The haiku is a three line poem that has 5 syllables in line one, 7 syllables in line two and, 3 syllables in line three. The lines do not rhyme. Classic haiku poetry focuses on nature.
Limerick
A limerick poem is a five-line humorous poem that has a set number of syllables and a rhyme scheme. There are 10 syllables in lines one, two and five. These three lines also rhyme and have the same rhythm. In lines three and four, there are 5 to 7 syllables that have the same rhythm and rhyme. The rhyme pattern is AABBA.