U3_3 Assessment
Completion requirements
How Does the Human Body Work?
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Poems
Scieszka has written this poem parodying (imitating) a very famous lyric poem by (Alfred) Joyce Kilmer. A lyric poem rhymes and expresses emotion.
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View the Finding Syllables video.
Did you notice there are eight syllables in every line of the poem "Trees"?
This is what gives the poem its rhythm or beat.
In their poems, (Alfred) Joyce Kilmer and Scieszka use rhyming couplets. This means that:
For example, in the poem "Trees", there are two lines in each stanza, each line in the same stanza has the same number of syllables.
Notice the comparisons in the poems "Trees" and "Lovely".
A simile compares two unlike things using the words 'like' or 'as'; e.g. "The star is like a diamond in the sky"; "a poem as lovely as a tree"; or, "a poem ugly as a spleen".
Download and complete the Reader's Notebook: 3-3 Poetry worksheet.
Document: Reader's Notebook: 3-3 Poetry
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Unit 3
How Does the Human Body Work?
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Activity
Poems
Reread the poem Lovely on page 155 of Literacy in Action 5A.
Scieszka has written this poem parodying (imitating) a very famous lyric poem by (Alfred) Joyce Kilmer. A lyric poem rhymes and expresses emotion.
Trees
I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.
A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
Against the sweet earth's flowing breast;
A tree that looks at God all day,
And lifts her leafy arms to pray;
A tree that may in summer wear
A nest of robins in her hair;
Upon whose bosom snow has lain;
Who intimately lives with rain.
Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree.
I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.
A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
Against the sweet earth's flowing breast;
A tree that looks at God all day,
And lifts her leafy arms to pray;
A tree that may in summer wear
A nest of robins in her hair;
Upon whose bosom snow has lain;
Who intimately lives with rain.
Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree.
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View the Finding Syllables video.
Did you notice there are eight syllables in every line of the poem "Trees"?
This is what gives the poem its rhythm or beat.
In their poems, (Alfred) Joyce Kilmer and Scieszka use rhyming couplets. This means that:
- there are two lines in each stanza (stanzas in poems are like paragraphs in prose)
- there must be the same number of syllables in each line of the same stanza
- each pair of lines (couplet) ends with a rhyming word (A rhyme is a repetition of similar sounding words occurring at the end of lines in nursery rhymes, poems or songs. snow/go; wool/full; horn/corn)
For example, in the poem "Trees", there are two lines in each stanza, each line in the same stanza has the same number of syllables.
Notice the comparisons in the poems "Trees" and "Lovely".
A simile compares two unlike things using the words 'like' or 'as'; e.g. "The star is like a diamond in the sky"; "a poem as lovely as a tree"; or, "a poem ugly as a spleen".
A simile is a comparison using the words like or as.
a poem as lovely as a tree
noun: poem
adjective and noun: lovely tree
The poem is beautiful as a tree is beautiful.
noun: poem
adjective and noun: lovely tree
The poem is beautiful as a tree is beautiful.
Tree
Personification is when a non-human thing is given human qualities. A tree wears a nest of robins in her hair for example.
Download and complete the Reader's Notebook: 3-3 Poetry worksheet.
Document: Reader's Notebook: 3-3 Poetry
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To download a printer-friendly version of the file, click here.
- Download the 3-3 Poetry document.
- IMPORTANT NOTE: When the next screen opens:
- Click "Open with a different Viewer" button (top right corner).
- Select "Open with Adobe".
- Click "OK".
- You will then be able to view Reader's Notebook: 3-3 Poetry.
- Your assignment is to make up six rhyming couplets about the human body patterning them after the poem, "Trees", from which "Lovely" was written. The rhyming couplets must make sense.
- You must include one simile in your poem.
- You must include on personification in your poem.
- You must include imagery and twelve concrete words.
- You will also practice reading your poems several times.
- You need to submit a copy of your written work and perform your poem for your teacher. You may choose to make a digital recording. When you do your recording, make sure to speak slowly, clearly, and loudly enough for your audience to hear you.
- You can use your computer/phone/tablet to record your reading and submit the recording to the teacher.
- You can read your poems into the Vocaroo website and submit the recording to the teacher.
- You can call your teacher and do your reading over the phone directly or record it in voicemail.