Unit 7

What is Friendship?

Activity

The Incredible Journey: Home Poem

Your next activity is to write a poem describing the animals' journey to find their owners.


Read over all the words you have listed in your The Incredible Journey Vocabulary. Skim through the novel to locate any other words and phrases that caught your eye when you were reading this novel. Choose a selection of words and phrases that you'd like to use in your poem (ex: laggard, forlorn, uninhabited wasteland) and think about how these might fit together to create a short poem.

Using one of the following poetry formats, write a short poem that describes the animal's journey to find their owners.

Click each coloured tab for information about the activity.

Websites

Websites

  • A Free Verse poem does not have any rhyming or beat pattern.
  • A Cinquain poem has five lines.
  • A Diamante poem is written in the shape of a diamond and has seven lines.
  • A Haiku poem is a three-line poem that has a certain number of syllables in each line.
  • An I Wish Poem is between eight and ten lines long and each line starts with the words I wish.
Rubric

Rubric

Check the Unit 7 Poem Rubric to better understand the expectations of this activity.


Poetry is very personal; therefore, your teacher will only examine three criteria for assessment purposes. Your teacher will examine your poem to see if the poem:

  1. follows the pattern you have chosen
  2. describes or tells about the animals' journey
  3. includes words from the novel

Save

How to save a file for submission:

  1.  Select your Documents folder as the location to Save In.
  2.  Name the document. You will always name your documents in a similar way.
      • Use the first letter of your first name, followed by your last name, then an underscore (_), then the name of the file.
      • In this case, the file name is Home Poem. For example, if my name is John Smith, I would name my file jsmith_homepoem.

  3. Click Save. Your file is in your Documents folder.

Submit your file to the teacher:

  1. Submit your completed Home Poem.
  2. Click on the Add Submission button to upload your document.