Poetry
Sensory Details in “Hello, Ocean” by Pam Munoz Ryan
Literary Devices: sensory details, onomatopoeia, metaphor, simile, personification, stanza, rhyme scheme, alliteration, assonance, parallelism or parallel structure, concrete poems.
Poems Hide Everywhere — “Valentine for Ernest Mann” by Naomi Shihab Nye in Collected & New Poems
Naomi Shihab Nye reading her poem
Writing prompt: “Check your garage, odd sock drawer, the person you almost like, but not quite” — your backpack, lunch bag and simply write about it.
Writing prompt: Dueling with poetry. Write your own, “Hello, Ocean” — Hello, Chicken. Hello, Rolly Polly. Hello, Slug. Start with any sense that is NOT sight.
This… is the beauty of metaphor “Sifter” by Naomi Shihab Nye
“Fog” by Carl Sanburg - the poet reads his poem
Writing prompt: Become a kitchen implement in two stanzas. In addition to your extended metaphor, also use personification or sensory details.
Writing prompt: Write a poem like “Fog” but about a different weather phenomemon
Possible structure: The ___ (noun: weather or emotion) comes (or another verb) in on ___ (noun: animal body part)
Metaphor… “Mercy” From The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
Writing prompt: “Check your garage, odd sock drawer, the person you almost like, but not quite” — your backpack, lunch bag and simply write about it.
Writing prompt: Dueling with poetry. Write your own, “Hello, Ocean” — Hello, Chicken. Hello, Rolly Polly. Hello, Slug. Start with any sense that is NOT sight.
Sensory Details in “Long Trip” by Langston Hughes & “Hello, Ocean” by Pam Munoz Ryan
Literary Devices: sensory details, onomatopoeia, metaphor, simile, personification, stanza, rhyme scheme, alliteration, assonance, parallelism or parallel structure, concrete poems.
Writing prompt: Dueling with poetry. Write your own, “Hello, Ocean” — Hello, Chicken. Hello, Rolly Polly. Hello, Slug. Start with any sense that is NOT sight.
Simile in “Ebb” by By Edna St. Vincent Millay, “The Eagle” By Lord Alfred Tennyson and in “Quick as a Cricket”
Writing prompt: Describe the movement of an ordinary animal or object with a simile as Tennyson does is “The Eagle.”
He watches from his mountain walls.
And like a thunderbolt he falls.
Metaphor… “Hope is the Thing with Feathers”By Emily Dickinson
Writing prompt: Choose an emotion or attribute like hope, patience, anger, frustration, worry, pity, compassion, etc. and write a poem comparing that emotion to something else “Patiences is a thing with….” “Anger is a thing with….”
Simile in “Daybreak in Alabama” by Langston Hughes and “Skiing” by Rose Burgunder
Writing prompt: Compare someone doing something active, such as running down the soccer field, riding a horse over a jump, dancing and use a simile in the first stanza just as Burgunder does in the first stanza of “Skiing”
Fast as foxes
buzzy as bees
down the slope
on our silver-tipped skis-
Personification & Speaker as in “Trees” By Joyce Kilmer and “Theme in Yellow” by Carl Sandburg, the author of “Fog”
Theme in Yellow
I spot the hills
With yellow balls in autumn.
I light the prairie cornfields
Orange and tawny gold clusters
And I am called pumpkins.
On the last of October
When dusk is fallen
Children join hands
And circle round me
Singing ghost songs
And love to the harvest moon;
I am a jack-o'-lantern
With terrible teeth
And the children know
I am fooling.
Writing prompt: Write a poem from the perspective of a non-human organism or thing here at Farm School. Use personification or anthropomorphism to imagine: what does the banyan tree hear, see, feel, think? What do the leaves, swing, fire pit experience?
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