Once all students have returned (or time is up), we will discuss how the students felt it went, did they learn anything, was it useful. We will then discuss how syllables are important in poetry; some poems use syllables as a poetic device. Introduce haikus. Practice writing haikus by showing examples and then trying some as a class. Provide students with time to work on their own set of haikus. Students may write as many as they want, but need to present three poems on the same theme as part of their poetry journal. Students may determine what an appropriate theme is. Ask for volunteers to share. Poems should go into the poetry journals. 8 Cinquain: - identify key Discussion: What have we learned - examples of Teacher Making a characteristics of poetry? Does it have to rhyme? What types cinquain observation of Poem Flow poetry and the of structured poetry have we learned? poems engagement misconceptions of - SMARTBoard and contribution poetry Introduce the cinquain poem. A cinquain - paper to discussion (understand that consists of five unrhymed lines. Each line - writing tools poems don’t have has a set number of syllables. (Line 1: 2 - sheets with Completion and to rhyme, may or syllables; Line 2: 4 syllables; Line 3: 6 the structure accuracy of may not follow a syllables; Line 4: 8 syllables; Line 5: 2 laid out cinquain poem structure, etc.)
Once all students have returned (or time is up), we will discuss how the students felt it went, did they learn anything, was it useful. We will then discuss how syllables are important in poetry; some poems use syllables as a poetic device. Introduce haikus. Practice writing haikus by showing examples and then trying some as a class. Provide students with time to work on their own set of haikus. Students may write as many as they want, but need to present three poems on the same theme as part of their poetry journal. Students may determine what an appropriate theme is. Ask for volunteers to share. Poems should go into the poetry journals. 8 Cinquain: Making a Poem Flow - identify key characteristics of poetry and the misconceptions of poetry (understand that poems don’t have to rhyme, may or may not follow a structure, etc.) Discussion: What have we learned poetry? Does it have to rhyme? What types of structured poetry have we learned? Introduce the cinquain poem. A cinquain consists of five unrhymed lines. Each line has a set number of syllables. (Line 1: 2 syllables; Line 2: 4 syllables; Line 3: 6 syllables; Line 4: 8 syllables; Line 5: 2 - examples of cinquain poems - SMARTBoard - paper - writing tools - sheets with the structure laid out Teacher observation of engagement and contribution to discussion Completion and accuracy of cinquain poem
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