Intro lesson poetry :acevedo, lennon and whitman

What is Poetry?

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This lesson contains 14 slides, with interactive quiz, text slides and 2 videos.

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What is Poetry?

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When is a piece of text poetry?

Slide 2 - Mind map

Read Mira Muchacha
By Elizabeth Acevedo

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Mira Muchacha: Structure?
How many lines? How many stanzas? Rhyme? (which type?)
Rhythm? (= nr of syllables per line)  Iambic pentameters? Any blank verse? Assonance? Alliteration? Repetition? Ellisions? 
Caesuras? Metaphores? Similes? Annotations?

Is this Poetry?



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Mira Muchacha: Is it Poetry?
And:
 Who is the narrator of the story? Who the speaker? 
Are they the same person? Who is the audience? 
What is the story told?
What feeling does this story try to evoke?
Is it recognizable? Is it taken from ordinary life?
Is it poetry?

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Imagine
Read  "Imagine"

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Imagine: structure
How many lines? How many stanzas? Rhyme? (which type?)
Rhythm? (= nr of syllables per line) Iambic pentameters? Any blank verse? Assonance? Alliteration? Repetition? Ellisions? 
Caesuras? Metaphores? Similes? Annotations?

Is this Poetry?

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Imagine: is this poetry?
And:
 Who is the narrator of the story? Who the speaker? Are they the same person? Who the audience? What is the story told?
What feeling does this story try to evoke?
Is it recognizable? Is it taken from ordinary life?
Is it poetry?

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Slide 9 - Video

A Child: By Walt Whitman
Part of Song of Myself:
Read Song of Myself in your reader and after that read and listen to A Child 

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Slide 11 - Video

Song of myself & A Child: Structure

How many lines? How many stanzas? Rhyme? (which type?)
Rhythm? (= nr of syllables per line) Iambic pentameters? Any blank verse? Assonance? Alliteration? Repetition? Ellisions? 
Caesuras? Metaphores? Similes? Annotations?

Is this Poetry?

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Song of Myself and A Child: is this poetry?

And:
 Who is the narrator of the story? Who the speaker? Are they the same person? Who the audience? What is the story told?
What feeling does this story try to evoke?
Is it recognizable? Is it taken from ordinary life?
Is it poetry?

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