April is National Poetry Month. We’ll be doing poetry lessons in class, but this homework is a way for you to explore some poetry on your own.
Options:
- Keep a poetry journal. It can be themed (write poems about the weather, a color, an animal, or a person in your family each day) or you can write poems that are unrelated. You must make at least five entries in your week’s poetry journal. Illustrate your poems and do not repeat forms. For instance, you cannot turn in five free verse poems or five haiku. You need five different kinds of poems.
- Find a poet you like. Try to make it someone new to you, not an old favorite. Record at least five of his or her poems in a small book and illustrate them. I like the Poetry Foundation’s online poetry library: www.poetryfoundation.org
- Memorize a longer poem that you like. The poem should be at least 5 stanzas long. Let us know if you’re willing to recite it to the class, otherwise, plan to recite it to a guide. The Poetry Foundation is a good source for this option as well.
- Analyze a poem. Write a short essay about why you think the author chose to write the poem, the main point or message of the poem, and the images in the poem you think are most impactful. If you use a source to help you in your analysis, please remember to cite it.
Expectations:
As always, anything you write and turn in for homework should be neat, organized, and checked for spelling, grammar, and punctuation. The rules of poetry are a little looser on punctuation, but you should still have proper grammar and spelling.
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