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Poetry Journal
Requirements
All journal entries should be numbered.
All journal entries must be turned in
IN NUMERICAL ORDER.
All journal entries must be neatly
printed in black/blue ink or typed.
This will count as an assessment grade.
Poetry Journal #1
Write about your experience with poetry.
What do you remember about poetry that
makes it challenging? What, if anything,
have you experienced that makes you think
poetry might have some value?
When/Where do you encounter poetry?
8-10 sentences with specific details
“How to Read a Poem
Out Loud” by Billy Collins
Step 1: Read the poem slowly. Most adolescents
speak rapidly, and a nervous reader will tend to
do the same in order to get the reading over
with. Reading a poem slowly is the best way to
ensure that the poem will be read clearly and
understood by its listeners. Learning to read a
poem slowly will not just make the poem easier
to hear; it will underscore the importance in
poetry of each and every word. A poem cannot
be read too slowly, and a good way for a reader
to set an easy pace is to pause for a few
seconds between the title and the poem's first
line.
Step 2: Read in a normal, relaxed tone of voice. It is
not necessary to give any of these poems a
dramatic reading as if from a stage. The poems
selected are mostly written in a natural, colloquial
style and should be read that way. Let the words
of the poem do the work. Just speak clearly and
slowly.
Step 3: Obviously, poems come in lines, but pausing at
the end of every line will create a choppy effect
and interrupt the flow of the poem's sense.
Readers should pause only where there is
punctuation, just as you would when reading prose,
only more slowly.
Step 4: Use a dictionary to look up unfamiliar words
and hard-to-pronounce words. To read with
conviction, a reader needs to know at least the
dictionary sense of every word. In some cases, a
reader might want to write out a word
phonetically as a reminder of how it should
sound. It should be emphasized that learning to
read a poem out loud is a way of coming to a full
understanding of that poem, perhaps a better
way than writing a paper on the subject.
Poetry Journal #2: Does “The Red Wheelbarrow” fit
your definition of a poem? Write down any thoughts,
feelings, opinions, or reactions that you have to the
poem. What do you think the author’s purpose is (Do
you think he has one)? 8-10 sentences
The Red Wheelbarrow
so much depends
upon
a red wheel
barrow
glazed with rain
water
beside the white
chickens.
William Carlos Williams
The _(adjective)__ __(noun)____
so much depends
upon
a/an ___(adjective)____
____(noun)___
__(participle)__ ___(prep)__ __(adjective)__
___(noun)___
___(prep)___ the ____(adjective)__
___(nouns)___.
“Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” by Robert Frost
Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.
My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.
He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound's the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.
The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
Can you figure out the rhyme scheme of this poem?
The Sonnet
Prologue from Romeo and Juliet
Shakespeare
Two households, both alike in dignity,
In fair Verona where we lay our scene,
From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
A pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life;
Whose misadventur’d piteous overthrows
Doth with their death bury their parents’ strife.
The fearful passage of their death-marked love,
And the continuance of their parents’ rage,
Which, but their children’s end, nought could remove,
Is now the two hours’ traffic of our stage;
The which if you with patient ears attend,
What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.
The prologue provides a summary of the
play. Translate the prologue of Romeo and Juliet into
modern English.
Journal #3: Write your own sonnet!
Journal #4: “Funeral Blues”
Questions*
Answer the questions about the poem.
• Assonance: repetition of vowel sounds within
non-rhyming words
– ex: It had tacks in it: repetition
• Consonance: repetition of consonant sounds
within and at the end of words
– Ex: : Lonely afternoon
• Type corrected answers to the worksheet.
Use complete sentences
Journal #5
• Write your version of a Pi Poem.
• Follow the format from the example.
Journal #6:
• After reading “the lesson of
the moth” and “Identity” use
complete sentences to answer
questions 1, 3, 4, 5, and 7 on
page 602.
Journal #7 – “To This Day”
Respond to the “To This Day” poem and video.
– What was your reaction to the poem and the visual
images in the film?
– Make a connection: Choose a specific quotation from
the poem and explain its connection to you or the
world. Why did you identify with that part?
• This response should be at least ½ page.
• After your personal response, make a list of at least
5 examples of poetic devices used in the
poem. List the term and include quotation
from the poem.
Journal #8
1. Read through the Poetry Café packet
and choose a poem to memorize.
2. On your notebook paper:
– Explain your choice for the poetry café.
• Why did you decide to recite your chosen poem?
• What does your poem mean?
• Do you connect with the poem on a personal level or do
you just like the way it sounds?
Be thorough and refer to the poem with
specific quotations. (8-10 sentences)
Journal #9
“Mother to Son” and “Speech to the Young”
• After reading the two poems pages 612616, use complete sentences to answer
questions # 4, 5, 6, and 9 on page 617.