Poetry and Limericks

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This lesson contains 22 slides, with interactive quiz, text slides and 1 video.

Lesson duration is: 60 min

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Goals

After this class you can:

Name different kinds of poems
Name some characteristics
Know how to write a limerick using the correct rhyming scheme

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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)”

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What kind of poems do you know?

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Kinds of poems

Acrostic poem

Haiku

Fairy poem (Elfje)

Limerick

and many more

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Acrostic poem

An acrostic poem is a poem where the first letter of each line (or the last letter of each line) spells out a specific word.

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This is also an Acrostic poem

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Haiku

Haiku: 5 – 7 – 5

3 lines (regels)

1st line: 5 syllables (lettergrepen)

2nd line: 7 syllables

3rd line: 5 syllables

Haiku poems don’t rhyme.

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Haiku?!

Haikus are easy.

But sometimes they don't make sense.

Refrigerator.

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Fairy poem (Elfje)

You

Your smile

Your long hair

Your pretty green eyes

You

1 word

2 words

3 words

4 words

1 word

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When writing a Limerick it's important to include ..?
A = Happiness B = Humor
C = Sadness D = Exaggeration

Happines

Humor

Sadness

Exaggeration

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Homework assignment!

Write your own Limerick

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