Language Arts
Poetry Dictionary
Poetry Recitations/ Poetry Book Due Date:
Grades 5/6/7 Monday, May 1, 2006... sign-up now!
Grades 8 Tuesday, May 2, 2006... sign-up now!
Extra credit (up to 10 points to participation grade): Poetry recitation at Appreciation Night on Monday, May 1st... you may recite a personal poem, or one that has been published.
Poetry Dictionary Entries (due Monday, April 10, 2006)
(1) Identify three types of poems that are in your literature book or on the internet (see choices below).
(2) Identify what makes this type unique (In the sample below: �A sonnet is fourteen lines of poetry that has three quatrains followed by a couplet. They rhyme scheme is abab cdcd efef gg. It is written with iambic pentameter�).
(3) Identify the name of a poem/poet that is written in this form (In the sample below �Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare�).
(4) Include the poem that you identified in #3 above (�Sonnet 18� is included in the sample).
(5) Identify the theme of the poem (In the sample: �This poem tells of a person�s love for another person.�).
Types of poems you can use (type these into the google search box for more info!):
Limerick Pantoum Ode Free Verse Acrostic
Haiku Cinquain Ballad Shape Sestina
Sample for your consideration:
Sonnet. A sonnet is fourteen lines of poetry that has three quatrains followed by a couplet. The rhyme scheme is abab cdcd efef gg. It is written with iambic pentameter. The poem �Sonnet 18� by William Shakespeare is an example of a sonnet. This poem tells of a person�s love for another person.
Sonnet 18
Shall I compare thee to a summer�s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer�s lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often in his gold complexion dimmed;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature�s changing course untrimmed;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow�st;
Nor shall death brag thou wander�st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou growest;
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
Scoring: Content (90%) 1 point per #1 and #2 above, 1 point per #3 and #4, 1 point per #5 above; and Presentation (10%) neatness, etc.
Bonus: Include more than three entries in your poetry dictionary!
13+=A+; 12=A; 11=A=; 10=B+; 9=B; 8=B-; 7=C+; 6=C; 5=C-; 4=D+; 3=D; 2=D-; 1=F