Term 4 begins as does Poetry

This term has begun with students learning the toolkit of poetic terms.
Link to Poetic Terms

We then began with an 8 line poem that had a simile and an example of personification in it. The second poem was an issue poem which was to deal with a big world issue like: poverty, politics, war, suicide etc. Our third poem assignment, and probably the hardest,was to write a metaphorical poem. The idea was to choose a theme and focus the entire poem around the concept. Example poem could be on death, greed, love etc. Next came the envelope poems where students were given paper and asked to write 10 words on the paper. The idea with this type of poem is to try to create a poem from the random words one is given.

Rules for Envelope poems

• You do not have to use all 10 words only the ones that work, but try to use at least 6 of the words
• Derrivatives of the words are allowed  ex. travel travelled travels
• Don't compromise meaning for rhyme or to fit the words in, meaning always comes first
• Try to find creative ways to use the words ex.  peacock might be the word and an example of how it might be used is "peacock coloured imagination"

Students are to complete two envelope poems and two choice poems. The choice poems can be on any theme and in any style.