The Scarlet Letter
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Found PoemsAssignment Description:
Students were instructed to use their independent reading novels to create a “found poem." When writing a found poem, a student can pick words, phrases, and sentences from anywhere in his or her independent reading book and put those words, phrases, and sentences together in a way that makes sense to that student. A “found poem” is a great teaching tool for beginning poets, particularly those that find writing poetry to be a daunting process. A “found poem” allows students to use word combinations that already exist and manipulate those words to create new meaning, either related to the book’s plot or not.
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Imagery - Prose to PoetryAssignment Description: Students were given a choice of different images. Students could access these images all at once and independently. Students selected an image and wrote a prose passage about the image. Prior to writing this piece we discussed fundamental elements of poetry: 1. Rhyme: internal, perfect rhyme, near or slant rhyme 2. Rhythm: a pattern of movement: feet, meter, measure 3. Density: double meaning 4. Form: the shape or the lines/stanzas 5. Imagery: Language that appeals to the senses We also discussed the difference between abstract ideas (emotions, intangibles, etc) and concrete images (tangible items we can see, hear, taste, touch and/or smell). Students were asked to turn their prose passage into a poem. Students were asked to use as much concrete imagery as they could when writing their prose. When translating their prose into poetry students were asked to pay particular attention to form and line breaks, more specifically enjambment, which is creating a line break that creates density or double meaning. |
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