E2: World Poetry (Feb. 2014)

Objectives

• Learn the differences between prose and poetry
• Dig into figurative language and apply that knowledge to a variety of poems
• Apply knowledge of storytelling and poetry through the analysis (written and verbal) of various poems

Please request notes from the teacher if needed. They were included with the original poetry packet and were reviewed in class.

Poems to read, discuss, and write about:

• "Sonnet 18" by William Shakespeare (1609)
• "Sonnet 130" by William Shakespeare (1609)
• "The Tyger" by William Blake (1794)
• "The World is Too Much With us" by William Wordsworth (1806)
• "Ozymandias" by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1818)

Poems to read, watch, discuss, and write about:

• “Childhood” by Justin Long and Ishmael Islam (2009)
• “Hands” by Sarah Kay (2007)
• “If I Had a Daughter” by Sarah Kay (2011)
• “What Teachers Make” by Taylor Mali (2006)
• “To This Day by Shane Koyczan (2013)

Poems we wrote:

• 2 nature Haikus
• 5 couplets
• 3 Five by Five
• 4 Snapshots
• 2 Writer's Choice