Acrostic

Task:

Students write their name or a key vocabulary word in capital letters down the left side of the page. Then they insert a word that begins with each vocabulary word.

Example:

B-bright

E-energetic

N-night-owl

“I am” poem

This format can be used by you to describe yourselves or to describe a figure history, literature, current events or anything else:

I am (2 special characteristics you have)

I wonder (something of curiosity)

I hear (an imaginary sound)

I see (an imaginary sight)

I want (an action desire)

I am (the first line of the poem repeated)

Example:

I am polite and kind

I wonder about my kids’ future

I hear a unicorn’ cry

I see Atlantis

I want to do it all over again

I am polite and kind

Task:

Describe yourself or a figure from history or literature, etc.

Bio-poem

It is a poem that a student writes about himself. Students reflect about their own lives and get to know each other better.

Example:

First name______________________________________________________

Is__________________________ 3 traits that describe you

Loves________________________ 3 people/things that you love

Is good at_____________________ 3 things that you do well

Wants_________________________ 3 things that you want

Fears__________________________ 3 things that you fear

Likes to eat______________________ 3 foods that you like

Watches_________________________ 3 TV shows/movies that you watch

Task:

Write about yourself

Colorful poetry

Task:

Explain how your favorite colors make you feel. Use your five senses (sight, hearing, touch, taste, smell) to compare your color to other things.

For example: Red

Red is boiling hot anger

Red is the sound of fireworks exploding

Red is taste of sweet strawberry pie

Red is feeling of the itchy wool scarf Mom makes me wear

Red is an apple with a bite missing

Red is both happy and mad!

Basics of poetry writing

(lessons 25-26)

Metaphors for people

Mum is a zing(энергия) of yellow-color

The fizz(шипение, пена) in the lemonade-object

Mum is the path that keeps us safe

She’s our shelter and our shade-place

She’s springtime’s hope, she’s autumn’s gold,-season

She’s summer’s coat for winter’s cold-piece of clothing

Our evening star, our morning sun-nature

She’s or world and more: our Mum.

James Carter

Task:

• Focus on a different metaphor image for each line. Try some of these: color, an object/objects, sound, food, animal, season/weather, place, piece of clothing.

• Write your own metaphor poem based on someone you know or a famous person if you prefer. Don’t make it rhyme. It’s like a free verse.

Haiku

Haiku is a Japanese poem composed of three unrhymed lines of 5, 7 and 5 syllables. Haiku reflects on some aspects of nature.

For example:

Pebbles shining clear

And clear six silent fishes

Deep autumn water

White chrysanthemum

Before that perfect flower

Scissors hesitate

Yellow evening sun

Long shadow of the scarecrow

Reaches to the road

Task:

Write your own haiku