Truce/Conflict Poem Requirements

Guidelines

·24+ lines
·Discuss Conflict AND Truce or Resolution
·Use enjambment when appropriate
·May or may not rhyme

Poetry From Art

Assignment: Choose one of the pictures to create a poem. In your poem, you should have at least six stanzas with four lines in each stanza. You must include enough instances of alliteration, assonance, or consonance to be significant. Your poem should be in free verse. In it, the readers should be able to tell the point-of-view, the mood, the setting, etc. Be clear and be consistent. Have fun. Remember, this is what YOU see in the picture. It's your interpretation. Sometimes it's easier to copy and paste the picture you are viewing to a word document.

When you are finished, you need to create a one page journal entry. In it, you need to vent about situations, events, people in your life that are stressful to you. This assignment will help you for Monday. MAKE SURE you turn in all outstanding poetry. It is very hard to get caught up if you fall behind in poetry. You are fantastic. Have fun.

So This Is...

Assignment #3:

Create a six-eight stanza poem entitled: So This is ___________. Finish that statement with Nebraska, Omaha or Millard. In this poem, your feelings about this place must be obvious. In Kooser's Nebraska, he describes a rural area and the sights from a car on a gravel road. Be clear in your work from where you are viewing "your" Nebraska/Omaha/MSHS. What do you see? Who do you see? What do you like? What don't you care for? Name your sights, sounds, touch, etc. In addition, play with personification. Have at least two examples of this in your poem. Prepare to turn this in on Wednesday.

Music

Find two songs that exemplify good poetry. Here is a site that works for me. Copy and paste it to your browser. Have fun!

http://search.azlyrics.com

Mrs. Adams

Music = Life

Hello. In preparation for our poetry unit study on lyrical poetry, I would like you to prepare a visual representation of a specific artist/group that speaks to you. You may not be sure at this point WHY you like him/her/them, but this assignment is designed to help you do that. Here is how you start:

1.Research your chosen musician/musical group via the Internet, Rolling Stone, etc. Spend your time finding out about their background, what they like, why they write the way they do, etc. Take notes so that you may be able to tell about it later.

2. Look through your favorite songs and their lyrics. Choose some of the best ones to highlight on your poster. Also, see if you can find quotes from them.

3. Find a picture of your artist for the middle and central focus of the poster.

4. Find pictures that symbolize what they stand for, where they are going in life, their beliefs, what they symbolize for you, what type of music do they play, etc.

5. Find one word that would define this person or these people to have as a central focus of your poster as well.

CREATE

Use the Internet, use your artistic skills, use magazines, etc. to make this visual. Fill the entire paper with these requirements.

This project is due the 11th or the 12th of October.

Have fun.