Poetry Portfolio Requirements

Portfolios are due on Friday, November 7th - NO EXCEPTIONS!

You must also include an extra copy of 5 pieces (this may include anything we have written this quarter (narrative, short short stories, short story, poetry)) you want to submit to Solstice. This is not optional.

If you got your short story rough draft back last week, your final draft is due Wednesday, November 5th. If you got your rough draft back this week, your final draft is due Friday, November 7th.

Experimenting with language

http://www.jabberwocky.com/carroll/jabber/jabberwocky.html





Now it is your turn to write you own jabberwockish poem. Don't forget about the parts of speech and the way that the sound of a word can reflect its meaning.



You must come up with at least five jabberwockish lines by the end of the period. Five is the bare minimum. Don't be the minimum :o)

Other Poetic Devices

In your Writer's Notebook, write down as many words possible related to love, tenderness, hate, and anger. You may use a thesaurus.

STOP!

Onomatopoeia
Alliteration
Consonance
Assonance

Sound and meaning

Links to sound poems:

"maggie and millie and molly and may"

http://www.dentonbach.com/poems/9.htm

"Where the Sidewalk Ends"

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/where-the-sidewalk-ends/

"Out, Out -"

http://www.bartleby.com/119/22.html

"Soul Singer in a Session Band"

http://www.lyricsmania.com/lyrics/bright_eyes_lyrics_3516/cassadaga_lyrics_43215/soul_singer_in_a_session_band_lyrics_468069.html

Words, Words, Words

Read the entire list of words below. Choose at least three of the words to use them as titles. Then write the poems. Post them to your blog by the end of the period.

archipelago (ar-kah-PEL-ah-go) — 1. a large group of islands. 2. a sea, such as the Aegean, containing a large number of scattered islands

cacophony (kah-KOF-ah-nee) — 1. jarring, discordant sound; dissonance. 2. the use of harsh or discordant sounds in literary composition

caterwaul (KAT-er-wol) — 1. to utter long wailing cries, as cats in rutting time. 2. to utter a similar sound; howl or screech. 3. to quarrel like cats

conundrum (kah-NUN-drum) — 1. a riddle in which a fanciful question is answered by a pun. 2. a paradoxical, insoluble, or difficult problem; a dilemma

frangipani (fran-jah-PAN-ee) — 1. any of various tropical American deciduous shrubs or trees of the genus Plumeria, having milky sap and showy, fragrant, funnel-shaped, variously colored flowers. Also called temple tree. 2. a perfume derived from or similar in scent to the flowers of one of these shrubs or trees. 3. also fran·gi·pane (FRAN-jah-pan) a creamy pastry filling flavored with almonds

jocularity (JOK-yah-lar-i-tee) — joking speech or behavior

kismet (KIZ-met) — fate; fortune

loam (LOM) 1. soil composed of a mixture of sand, clay, silt, and organic matter. 2. a mixture of moist clay and sand, and often straw, used especially in making bricks and foundry molds

megalomaniac (meg-ah-lo-MAN-ee-ak) — 1. a person with a psychopathological condition characterized by delusional fantasies of wealth, power, or omnipotence. 2. a person who has an obsession with grandiose or extravagant things or actions

necromancy (NEK-roh-man-see) — 1. the practice of supposedly communicating with the spirits of the dead in order to predict the future. 2. black magic; sorcery. 3. magic qualities

phalanges (pha-LAN-jeez) — a bone of a finger or toe

rambunctious (ram-BUNGK-shes) boisterous and disorderly

ricochet (RIC-ah-shay) — to rebound

sarcophagus (sar-KOF-ah-ges) — an above-ground stone coffin, often inscribed or decorated with sculpture

sprocket (SPROK-it) — 1. any of various toothlike projections arranged on a wheel rim to engage the links of a chain. 2. a cylinder with a toothed rim that engages in the perforations of photographic or movie film to pull it through a camera or projector

usurp (yoo-SURP) — 1. to seize and hold (the power or rights of another, for example) by force and without legal authority. 2. to take over or occupy without right

undulation (un-jah-LAY-shen) — movement in waves; a wavy, curving form or outline

vertigo (VUR-ti-go) — 1. the sensation of dizziness; an instance of such a sensation. 2. a confused, disoriented state of mind


Homework: Create a list of words that you like. You must have at least 25 words on your list.

shape poems

This is a challege. This is obviously an elementary school activity, but you need to raise the level of sophistication. Use this activity to challenge yourself in the areas of metaphor, simile, imagery, and diction. Be sure to print your poem and give it to me. THIS IS BEING GRADED!!!Good luck!

http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/shape/


Once you have created a basic shape poem, try writing another kind of "shape" poem where the layout of the poem reflects the meaning or feeling you are trying to convey. Use the following poem as an example. You must write at least two of these poems. Post your advanced shape poems to your blog by the end of the period.


by e.e. cummings

l(a

le
af
fa

ll

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one

l

iness

Parts of Speech Poems

§ One
· Article + Noun
· Adjective + conjunction + adjective
· Verb + conjunction + verb
· Adverb
· Noun (relate back to first line)

§ Two
· Adjective + noun
· Adjective + noun
· Adverb + verb
· Adverb + verb
· Conjunction + adjective + noun
· Adverb
· Verb
· Interjection

§ Three
· Preposition + pronoun + adjective
· Verb + adverb
· Conjunction + adverb + verb
· Noun
· Adjective
· Noun
· Adjective
· Adverb + verb + conjunction + noun + preposition + adjective + noun

Example of a very, very short image poem

http://www.bartleby.com/104/106.html

What is poetry?

Read all of the following quotes regarding poetry. Choose the three quotes that you believe are the best definitions of poetry. Copy the quotes into your Writer's Notebook, put the quotes into your own words, and then explain why they are the best defintions.

Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash. ~Leonard Cohen

There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either. ~Robert Graves, 1962 interview on BBC-TV, based on a very similar statement he overheard around 1955

Poetry is what gets lost in translation. ~Robert Frost

Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable. Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away. ~Carl Sandburg, Poetry Considered

Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted. ~Percy Shelley, A Defence of Poetry, 1821

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things. ~T.S. Eliot, Tradition and the Individual Talent, 1919

Poetry is ordinary language raised to the nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words. ~Paul Engle, New York Times, 17 February 1957

Friday, October 17th

All printed drafts are due at the end of the period. Please write on the top of your paper if it is a rough draft or a final draft. If it is a final draft, please staple your final draft to it. Don't forget: this must be in MLA format.

All final drafts must be uploaded to www.turnitin.com.

Homework due Monday:

Copy (yes, in your handwriting) your favorite poems and song lyrics into your Writer's Notebook.

Dialogue exercises

What is tone?

Open your story in MS Word.

Switch computers with a partner.

On your partner's story:

• Highlight all dialogue
• Insert comments (In your comment answer the question "What is the tone of this line?")

The Short Story

Here is the rubric that will be used in the grading of your short story. Please refer to it throughout the writing process.

Working toward your Short Story

Think about your setting. Think hard. What imagery could you use to describe your setting? What mood is created by your setting? What details should you include to help set the mood?

Write one detailed paragraph describing your setting in your writer's notebook. This is an exercise in setting. You may or may not use it in your short story. Please give me your notebook as soon as you are done. You may then continue working on your short story. Post your progress on your blog at the end of the period.