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Painting Pictures With Words
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First, we will read a variety of poems and explore the elements of poetry. The classroom will be transformed into an art gallery. Your job is to write a mystery poem using various elements of poetry (metaphor, simile, personification, etc.) to describe your favorite work of art in the classroom art gallery. Classmates will try to match your poem to a picture hanging in the gallery.
1st Read: read the poem for a general impression.
What clues do you get from the title?
Who is the speaker (narrator)?
2nd Read: pay more attention meaning.
What words confuse you?
Are there any footnotes?
3rd Read: read the poem aloud.
Listen to the music: rhyme, pauses, changes in pattern.
Poets strive for an original way to say something. What is this poet saying?
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Form Is the poem restricted by a form or free verse? sonnet, acrostic, couplets, limericks, diamante, free verse, etc. |
Images What pictures is the poet painting in your mind? metaphor, simile, personification, hyperbole
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Story What is the meaning or story being expressed? speaker, tone, ideas or story being told
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Music What do you hear when you read it aloud? alliteration, consonance, repetition, pauses, rhyme, rhythm, etc.
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Forms
- Acrostic (ReadWriteThink)
- Couplets
- Diamante (ReadWriteThink)
- Epic
- Free Verse
- Haiku
- Letter Poems (ReadWriteThink)
- Limericks
- Shape or Concrete (ReadWriteThink)
Story
- Speaker
- Meaning
- Tone
- Word choice
Imagery
- Metaphor
- Simile
- Personification
- Hyperbole
Music or Sounds
- Alliteration (vowel sounds repeated)
- Consonance (consonance sounds repeated)
- Enjambment (run-on line)
- End-Stop Line (line ends w/punctuation)
- Onomatopoeia (words that make a sound)
- Repetition
- Rhyme
- Rhythm
Painting Pictures with Words
Guggenheim Museum: New York (go to the online collection)
Metropolitan Museum in New York
Metropolitan Museum in New York: Museum for Kids (For Kids to Try Right Now!)
- Poetry Packet: Figurative Language
- Poetry Notes: Imagery
- Holiday Poetry --Sample
- Paint Palette --Template to write poem
Teacher Created Materials
The Train (PowerPoint)
Web Resources
Language Arts Standards: 6th Grade (All ELA skills with awesome poetry resources)
Poetry for Children (Internet School Library Media Center)
Poetry for Upper Elementary Children (online text)
Poetry Read-a-Thon (The Academy of American Poets)
Scholastic: Finding Materials for Poetry Lessons
Paint Brush Clip Art: Lynnville-Sully Community School
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