Poetry Journals due Thursday, May 17th!!!
Rockets due Monday, May 14th!!!
Poetry:
Poem #1: Shape Poem - ex. apple
Poem #2: It's a ________ thing.
Ex.:
Tallest in the halls
Placing posters on the walls.
It’s an 8th grade thing.
Going to Mahoney.
Packing chips and baloney.
It’s an 8th grade thing.
Being oldest in the school,
Requires acting cool.
It’s an 8th grade thing.
Bring my friends along.
Always trying to belong.
It’s an 8th grade thing.
Today feeling mad.
Tomorrow feeling sad.
It’s an 8th grade thing.
Shooting off rockets.
Blue cards in our pockets.
You wouldn’t understand.
It’s an 8th grade thing.
Poem #3: List Poem ( at least 10 lines)
Ex. Excuses students give when they forget their homework.
Reasons why I hate rainy days.
People whomake you feel small.
Each item on the list is a line for the poem.
Poem # 4: “Can you imagine . . .” poem (14 total lines)
Example: Written in two line couplets - last words in two lines rhyme.
A city without violence
This classroom in silence?
Sky without stars
Jail with no bars?
Poem #5: What is and is not. ( 6 pairs of lines - total lines 12)
A friend is . . .
A friend is not . . .
A vacation is . . .
A vacation is not . . .
A mom is . .
A mom is not. . .
Poetry #6: Rosette
BLAME
I guess there is someone to blame for everything (9 words)
Everything that can sometimes go wrong in life (8 words)
Then you realize there's nobody to blame (7 words)
No one to blame for anything (6 words)
Have you figured it out? (5 words)
Who is to blame? (4 words)
There's no one (3 words)
But yourself (2 words)
You (1)
You're it (2)
You're the one (3)
You are to blame (4)
No one can help you (5)
Nobody can help what you did (6)
You did everything on your own (7)
There is no one to blame but yourself (8)
I guess there is someone to blame for everything (9)
by Erin Radigan, 7th grade
Poetry #7: Autobiographical Poem
____________ (first name)
____, ____, ____ (three personal characteristics or physical traits)
Brother or sister of _____(or son or daughter of)
Who loves ______, _____, and _____? (three people, things, or ideas)
Who feels _____ about _____ (one emotion about one thing)
Who needs ____, _____, and ____(three items people need)
Who gives ____, _____, and ____(three objects people share)
Who fears ____, _____, and ____(three items)
Who would like to see ______(one place or person)
Who dreams of _______(one item or idea)
A student of _____ (your school or teacher's name)
_______(nickname or repeat your first name
Poetry # 8
Five senses poem:
Graham Cracker:
Brown with small holes
with a sugary sweet smell.
Litsten for the crunchy, crispy munch as it is eaten.
With a good honey cinnamon taste,
it has rough edges like a desert.
Carrot:
The orange stick-like figure
smells as if just arriving out of a garden.
The sweet juicy crunch has a
wet, soft feeling.
The sweetness tastes good.
Poetry #9
Cinquain Poem:
Line 1: subject
Line 2: 2 describing words
Line 3: -ing words about what the subject does
Line 4: a sentence about the subject
Line 5: another name for the subject
Ex.
Universe
Vast, Immense
Expanding? Redshifting? Mindboggling?
The universe is everything.
Cosmos
Poetry # 10
Haiku:
Line 1: 5 syllables
Line 2: 7 syllables
Line 3: 5 syllables
Ex.
The black ant was brave
Interrupting our picnic.
My shoe was braver.
Poetry # 11
Another poem in the form of any of the above.
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