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Love That Dog by Sharon
Creech |
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FIC CRE |
What is
poetry?
What is the purpose of poetry?
Who writes poetry? |
Is it a poem? Read these selections and discuss if it
is a poem or not.
Mother Goose, 398.2 SYL
If You're Happy and You Know It, 1784.6 IF
Harlem by Walter Dean Myers, 811 MYE
Be Boy Buzz by Bel Hooks, E RAS
Hoops by Robert Burleigh, 811 BUR
Sheep Oout to Eat by Nancy Shaw, E SHA
My Own Rhythm by Ann Atwood, 811 ATW
Just Around the Corner by James Stevenson, 811 STE
Dirty Laundry Pile by Paul Janeczko, 811.008 DIR
Hello School! by Dee Lillegard 811 LIL
Oh! By Kevin Henkes, E HEN |
Rhyming Poems
Talk about the rhyming patterns: AABB, ABAB, ABAC...
Couplets
Limericks
Lyrics
Skeltonic Verse
Sonnet |
Nonrhyming
Poems
Discuss the rhythm, syllabic patterns and shape patterns of nonrhyming
poems.
Haiku
Lune
Cinquain
Diamante
Poetic Cryptograms |
Activities
Write your own rhyming poem and identify the pattern.
Write your own Poetic Cryptogram using Word on the computer. |
Hear Sharon Creech, Walter Dean
Myers, Avi and Sarah Weeks read from "Love That Dog"
click here |
Poetry
types to study:
Free verse, Haiku, Limerick, Lyric, and Narrative |
Poets
to study:
Walter Dean Myers, Shel Silverstein, Robert Frost, Valerie Worth, William
Carlos Williams, William Blake, Arnold Adoff, S.C. Rigg, Douglas Florian,
and James Stevenson |
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