Unit 7

What is Friendship?

Activity

Bridge to Terabithia: Poem

Your next activity is to write a poem based on the novel.


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

Review the list of similes you collected while you were reading Bridge to Terabithia. Are there any similes you would like to include in your poem? 

Using one of the following poetry formats, write a short poem that answers the essential question: What is Friendship? The poem can focus on the answering the question in the poem or by using the poem to provide examples of the friendship between Leslie and Jess.



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.
Poetry is very subjective; therefore, your teacher will only examine three criteria for assessment purposes. Read over the poem questions before you hand in this activity. Make sure you have met all the requirements of the assignment:

  1. Does the poem follow the pattern you chose?
  2. Is the theme of the poem evident?
  3. Have words from the novel been included in the poem?
Rubric

Rubric

Check the Bridge to Terabithia Poem Rubric to better understand the expectations of this activity.



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 Bridge to Terabithia Poem. For example, if my name is John Smith, I would name my file jsmith_bttpoem.

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

Submit your file to the teacher:

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