Poetry Porfolio Project - Class 1: Introduction to Poetry

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 1

Goals

After this class you can:

• Name different kinds of poems
• Name some characteristics (kenmerken)
  
• Know how to write different kinds of poems
• I can read and interpret a poem
  

What do you know about poems?

What is a poem?

“a piece of writing in which the expression of feelings and ideas is given intensity by attention to rhythm, and imagery (and sometimes rhyme)”

What kinds of poems do you know?

Kinds of poems

Limerick

Haiku

Acrostic poem

Fairy poem (elfje)

and many more....

Poetry Porfolio Schedule

Write a rhyming poem - 15 January

Write a Limerick - 21 January

Write a Haiku - 28 January

Write an Acrostic Poem - 04 February

Write a Fairy Poem - 25 February

Portfolio Deadline: 04 March

(Hand in all the poems together in a folder at the start of class)

The final grade counts twice towards your final grade

Some Short Poems

Now We Are Six

 When I was One,
I had just begun.
When I was Two,
I was nearly new.
When I was Three
I was hardly me.
When I was Four,
I was not much more.
When I was Five,
I was just alive.
But now I am Six,
I'm as clever as clever,
So I think I'll be six now for ever and ever.

Snowball

I made myself a snowball
As perfect as could be.
I thought I'd keep it as a pet
And let it sleep with me.
I made it some pajamas
And a pillow for its head.
Then last night it ran away,
But first it wet the bed. 

Bed In Summer

In Winter I get up at night

And dress by yellow candle light.
In Summer, quite the other way,
I have to go to bed by day.
I have to go to bed and see
The birds still hopping on the tree,
Or hear the grown-up people's feet
Still going past me in the street.
And does it not seem hard to you,
When all the sky is clear and blue,
And I should like so much to play,
To have to go to bed by day?

Which poem did you like best?

1. Now We Are Six
2. Snowball
3. Bed In Summer

What do you think the Rhyme Scheme will be?

What's the Rhyme Scheme?

read the poems below once again and analyse what their rhyme scheme is.

Now We Are Six
When I was One,
I had just begun.
When I was Two,
I was nearly new.
When I was Three
I was hardly me.
When I was Four,
I was not much more.
When I was Five,
I was just alive.
But now I am Six,
I'm as clever as clever,
So I think I'll be six now for ever and ever.

Snowball
I made myself a snowball
As perfect as could be.
I thought I'd keep it as a pet
And let it sleep with me.
I made it some pajamas
And a pillow for its head.
Then last night it ran away,
But first it wet the bed.

Bed In Summer
In Winter I get up at night
And dress by yellow candle light.
In Summer, quite the other way,
I have to go to bed by day.
I have to go to bed and see
The birds still hopping on the tree,
Or hear the grown-up people's feet
Still going past me in the street.
And does it not seem hard to you,
When all the sky is clear and blue,
And I should like so much to play,
To have to go to bed by day?

A(B)A(B)

AABB

Assignment

Change "Now We Are Six"

Write your own version from six onwards. 

Start with:

"When I was six....." and end it at the age you are now

Use www.rhymezone.com to look for rhyming words

Now We Are Six
 When I was One,
I had just begun.
When I was Two,
I was nearly new.
When I was Three
I was hardly me.
When I was Four,
I was not much more.
When I was Five,
I was just alive.

(But now I am Six,
I'm as clever as clever,
So I think I'll be six now for ever and ever.)


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What did you think of this lesson
about rhyming poetry?

1. I liked it!
2. I didn't like it!
3. Neutral