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1 ...and then what happened Student Checklist/Scoring Sheet You are responsible for keeping track of this record sheet. It will be turned in for your final grade. Pre-write: /45 pts. Story Map (Literature) (you may not move on until your story map is scored) Drafting, editing, and publishing: Use the grid below to check off each step as you finish it and to record your scores-- poem Form Magic Edit Illustrated and Total M analysis correct Word perfect neat divided Choice, AP Poem Story Element colors and form Voice, Conven product between Focus answers Fluency, -tions place-ment of poem, LA and # 3 pts 4 pts 4 pts typed picture Literature 3 pts. 2pts. 4 pts. S 1 to to C 11 TO 14 Fog The Road Not Taken The Red Wheelbarrw Oranges haiku haiku Union of Children s Rights We Real Cool Dream Deferred old age sticks Mother to Son expositionsetting exposition-intro. of characters and conflict emphasize conflict rising action-- 1st event reaction to 1st event--feeling reaction to 1st event--action taken rising action--2nd event or suspense builder rising action--2nd or 3rd event building to the climax climax falling action & resolution/ theme NA Cover (includes author, title, date, and illustration) / 10 pts. LA Table of Contents (typed with all your Master Emulated titles) / 10 pts. LA Story Flow: Do the poems make a clear, easy to read story? / 15 pts. LA About the Author extra credit /5 Title Page extra credit /2 LA NA NA NA /20 /20 /16 /20 /20 /13 /20 /16 /20 /20 /20
2 ...And Then What Happened? Your Job Create a suspenseful mystery, adventure or historical fiction story that will be writte in 7 or more separate poems. How to do it? Formulate an interesting and well thought out plot ( This part is ESSENTIAL! Take the time you need to prepare to write). Model the master poets of modern times as we study their poems in class (it worked for them and it will work for you). Masters we will study: e.e. cummings Gwendloyn Brooks Robert Frost Shel Siverstein Carl Sandburg Langston Hughes William Carlos Issa / Basho Gary Soto Other forms and poets Work with a peer editor to prepare your story for publication Create an eye-catching cover and table of contents Illustrate your story Publish and share Wah-lah!! You have masterfully written story in a unique form that will thrill its readers. See the Student Checklist (front cover) for more information
3 As you write each poem thoughtfully, choose a title for it and write it in the space below. Table of Contents 1. (Fog) 2. (The Road not Taken) 3. (The Red Wheelbarrow) 4. (Oranges) 5. (haiku #1) 6. (haiku #2) 7. (Union of Children s Rights) 8. (We Real Cool) 9. (Dream Deferred) 10. (old age sticks) 11. (Mother to Son
4 Form - (4) When you model the masters you need to try and model as much of their style as you can including: signature, punctuation, amount of words, syllables, and lines, rhyming, include any structure the master demonstrates. Word Choice/Voice - (4) When you model the masters you need to capture the magic they create by using enhancing words like active verbs and figurative language as close to the masters style as possible. Need help?
5 Model the Masters Response COLOR ANALYSIS of POEM # YELLOW box = explanation of title and theme GREEN circle = imagery BLUE underline = confusing words or phrases RED underline = words new to you Fog The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on. --Carl Sandburg UNDERSTANDING THE POEM (see Literature and Language pg ) FORM: SOUND: How many lines in each stanza? How many stanzas (if any). Is there a rhyme pattern? Rhythm? Repetition? Alliteration? Is this Free Verse? IMAGERY: How and where did the poet use words and phrases that appealed to the five senses? Circle these words and phrases in GREEN FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE: Any similes? What about metaphors? Any personifications? Circle any you fine in ORANGE. ALLUSION: Any reference to other people, places, or things from the present or past? Where? PURPOSE: Circle which is the purpose: share a message, convey a feeling, start you questioning and thinking, make you laugh, or tell a story? In PURPLE underline lines that support your choice? THEME: What is the big idea the author wants the reader to understand when they are done? NOW, USING THIS MASTER POET AS A GUIDE, WRITE YOUR OWN POEM ON THE BACK
6 Fog (#1 Setting of Story) Form Magic One Word Title Enhancing words - circle in red Use Simile or Metaphor Simile or Metaphor -underline in red Two Stanzas: Setting is descriptive / clear 1rst Stanza 3-4 word sentence 2nd Stanza word sentence Signature and title emulated from Master Draft:
7 Model the Masters Response COLOR ANALYSIS of POEM # YELLOW box = explanation of title and theme GREEN circle = imagery BLUE underline = confusing words or phrases RED underline = words new to you The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear; Though as for that, the passing there Had worn them really about the same, And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I kept the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back. I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence; Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-- I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. UNDERSTANDING THE POEM (see Literature and Language pg ) FORM: SOUND: IMAGERY: How many lines in each stanza? How many stanzas (if any). Is there a rhyme pattern? Rhythm? Repetition? Alliteration? Is this Free Verse? How and where did the poet use words and phrases that appealed to the five senses? Circle these words and phrases in GREEN. FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE: Any similes? What about metaphors? Any personifications? Circle any you fine in ORANGE. ALLUSION: PURPOSE: THEME: Any reference to other people, places, or things from the present or past? Where? Circle the purpose: share a message, convey a feeling, start you questioning and thinking, make you laugh, or tell a story? In PURPLE underline lines that support your choice? What is the big idea the author wants the reader to understand when they are done?
8 A Road Not Taken (#2-3 Intro. Characters / hint on Conflict) Form Magic a-b-a-a-b rhyme scheme enhancing words (Circle in Red) four stanzas vivid images (Circle in Red) each line starts with a capital Signature and title emulated from Master Draft:
9 Model the Masters Response COLOR ANALYSIS of POEM # YELLOW box = explanation of title and theme GREEN circle = imagery BLUE underline = confusing words or phrases RED underline = words new to you The Red Wheelbarrow by William Carlos Williams so much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens. UNDERSTANDING THE POEM (see Literature and Language pg ) FORM: SOUND: How many lines in each stanza? How many stanzas (if any). Is there a rhyme pattern? Rhythm? Repetition? Alliteration? Is this Free Verse? IMAGERY: How and where did the poet use words and phrases that appealed to the five senses? Circle these words and phrases in GREEN. FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE: Any similes? What about metaphors? Any personifications? Circle any you fine in ORANGE. ALLUSION: Any reference to other people, places, or things from the present or past? Where? PURPOSE: Circle purpose: share a message, convey a feeling, start you questioning and thinking, make you laugh, or tell a story? In PURPLE underline lines that support your choice? THEME: What is the big idea the author wants the reader to understand when they are done? NOW, USING THIS MASTER POET AS A GUIDE, WRITE YOUR OWN POEM ON THE BACK
10 Red Wheelbarrow (4-5 Bring out - Introduce Conflict) Form Magic 1rst stanza so much depends upon Word Choice to create conflict 2-4 stanzas: descriptive statement Imagery to create conflict (U. red) followed by a noun (3 word line Bring in emotion followed by a 1 word line) Signature and title emulated from Master Draft:
11 Model the Masters Response COLOR ANALYSIS of POEM # YELLOW box = explanation of title and theme GREEN circle = imagery BLUE underline = confusing words or phrases "Oranges" RED underline = words new to you The first time I walked Light in her eyes, a smile With a girl, I was twelve, Starting at the corners Cold, and weighted down Of her mouth. I fingered With two oranges in my jacket. A nickel in my pocket, December. Frost cracking And when she lifted a chocolate Beneath my steps, my breath That cost a dime, Before me, then gone, I didn't say anything. As I walked toward I took the nickel from Her house, the one whose My pocket, then an orange, Porch light burned yellow And set them quietly on Night and day, in any weather. The counter. When I looked up, A dog barked at me, until The lady's eyes met mine, She came out pulling And held them, knowing At her gloves, face bright Very well what it was all With rouge. I smiled, About. Touched her shoulder, and led Her down the street, across Outside, A used car lot and a line A few cars hissing past, Of newly planted trees, Fog hanging like old Until we were breathing Coats between the trees. Before a drugstore. We I took my girl's hand Entered, the tiny bell In mine for two blocks, Bringing a saleslady Then released it to let Down a narrow aisle of goods. Her unwrap the chocolate. I turned to the candies I peeled my orange Tiered like bleachers, That was so bright against And asked what she wanted - The gray of December That, from some distance, Someone might have thought I was making a fire in my hand. --Gary Soto FORM: SOUND: UNDERSTANDING THE POEM (see Literature and Language pg ) How many lines in each stanza? How many stanzas (if any). Is there a rhyme pattern? Rhythm? Repetition? Alliteration? Is this Free Verse? IMAGERY: How and where did the poet use words and phrases that appealed to the five senses? Circle the words and phrases in GREEN. FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE: Any similes? What about metaphors? Any personifications? Circle any you fine in ORANGE. ALLUSION: Any reference to other people, places, or things from the present or past? Where? PURPOSE: THEME: Circle the purpose: share a message, convey a feeling, start you questioning and thinking, make you laugh, or tell a story? In PURPLE underline lines that support your choice? What is the big idea the author wants the reader to understand when they are done?
12 Oranges (6-7 1rst event in your story) Form Magic Free Verse Enhancing active verbs (no --am, complete and partial sentences were, is, are, etc.) lines Vivid images (color, sound, smell Capitalize 1rst words imagery, etc.) Signature and title emulated from Master Draft:
13 Model the Masters Response COLOR ANALYSIS of POEMS #5 & # YELLOW box = explanation of title and theme GREEN circle = imagery BLUE underline = confusing words or phrases RED underline = words new to you ****Notice this is not syllables because it was TRANSLATED from Japanese. The old pond-- It would melt a frog jumps in, in my hand-- plop! The autumn frost. --Basho --Basho Mosquito at my ear-- does it think I m deaf? Even with insects-- some can sing, some can t. --Issa --Issa UNDERSTANDING THE POEM (see Literature and Language pg ) FORM: SOUND: IMAGERY: How many lines in each stanza? How many stanzas (if any). Is there a rhyme pattern? Rhythm? Repetition? Alliteration? Is this Free Verse? How and where did the poet use words and phrases that appealed to the five senses? Circle the words and phrases in GREEN. FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE: Any similes? What about metaphors? Any personifications? Circle any you fine in ORANGE. ALLUSION: PURPOSE: THEME: Any reference to other people, places, or things from the present or past? Where? Circle the purpose: share a message, convey a feeling, start you questioning and thinking, make you laugh, or tell a story? In PURPLE underline lines that support your choice? What is the big idea the author wants the reader to understand when they are done? NOW, USING THIS MASTER POET AS A GUIDE, WRITE YOUR OWN POEM ON THE BACK
14 Haiku #1 - Feeling (7-8 Reaction to First Events) Form Magic no title Enhancing words 3 lines Creating a feeling for the reader syllables Signature and title emulated from Master Draft: (Write here the feeling you are trying to create) Haiku #2 - reaction (8-9 Reaction to First Events) Form Magic no title Enhancing words 3 lines Response to the above feeling syllables Small moment in time (frozen) Signature and title emulated from Master Draft: (Write here the feeling you are trying to create)
15 Model the Masters Response COLOR ANALYSIS of POEM # YELLOW box = explanation of title and theme GREEN circle = imagery BLUE underline = confusing words or phrases RED underline = words new to you Union of Children s Rights by Shel Silverstein goes here. Concrete (picture) poem FORM: SOUND: IMAGERY: UNDERSTANDING THE POEM (see Literature and Language pg ) How many lines in each stanza? How many stanzas (if any). Is there a rhyme pattern? Rhythm? Repetition? Alliteration? Is this Free Verse? How and where did the poet use words and phrases that appealed to the five senses? Circle these words and phrases in GREEN. FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE: Any similes? What about metaphors? Any personifications? Circle any you fine in ORANGE. ALLUSION: Any reference to other people, places, or things from the present or past? Where? PURPOSE: Circle purpose share a message, convey a feeling, start you questioning and thinking, make you laugh, or tell a story? In PURPLE underline lines that support your choice? THEME: What is the big idea the author wants the reader to understand when they are done?
16 Union of Children s Rights: (9-10 2nd event or Suspense builder) Form Magic Picture is essential to message Use of a style such as: alliteration of your poem repetition, etc. Limited number of words Artistic disply of message Signature and title emulated from Master Draft:
17 Model the Masters Response COLOR ANALYSIS of POEM # YELLOW box = explanation of title and theme GREEN circle = imagery BLUE underline = confusing words or phrases RED underline = words new to you We Real Cool by Gwendolyn Brooks The Pool Players. Seven at the Golden Shovel We real cool. We Left school. We Lurk late. We Strike straight. We Sing sin. We Thin gin. We Jazz June. We Die soon. UNDERSTANDING THE POEM (see Literature and Language pg ) FORM: SOUND: How many lines in each stanza? How many stanzas (if any). Is there a rhyme pattern? Rhythm? Repetition? Alliteration? Is this Free Verse? IMAGERY: How and where did the poet use words and phrases that appealed to the five senses? Circle these words and phrases in GREEN. FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE: Any similes? What about metaphors? Any personifications? Circle any you fine in ORANGE. ALLUSION: Any reference to other people, places, or things from the present or past? Where? PURPOSE: Circle poem s purpose: share a message, convey a feeling, start you questioning and thinking, make you laugh, or tell a story? In PURPLE underline lines that support your choice? THEME: What is the big idea the author wants the reader to understand when they are done? NOW, USING THIS MASTER POET AS A GUIDE, WRITE YOUR OWN POEM ON THE BACK
18 We Real Cool ( rd Event or EVERYTHING up to the climax) Form Magic 1rst stanza tells who, where and Make sure the message doesn t how many get lost in the form 2-5 use exact number of words per line as the master Use the same pronoun throughout Use only one syllable words Rhyme and alliterate exactly like the master Signature and title emulated from Master Draft:
19 Model the Masters Response COLOR ANALYSIS of POEM # YELLOW box = explanation of title and theme GREEN circle = imagery BLUE underline = confusing words or phrases RED underline = words new to you Dream Deferred What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore-- and then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over-- like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it just sags like a heavy load. Or does it explode? --Langston Hughes UNDERSTANDING THE POEM (see Literature and Language pg ) FORM: SOUND: How many lines in each stanza? How many stanzas (if any). Is there a rhyme pattern? Rhythm? Repetition? Alliteration? Is this Free Verse? IMAGERY: How and where did the poet use words and phrases that appealed to the five senses? Circle these words and phrases in GREEN. FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE: Any similes? What about metaphors? Any personifications? Circle any you fine in ORANGE. ALLUSION: Any reference to other people, places, or things from the present or past? Where? PURPOSE: Does this poem share a message, convey a feeling, start you questioning and thinking, make you laugh, or tell a story? In PURPLE underline lines that support your choice? THEME: What is the big idea the author wants the reader to understand when they are done? NOW, USING THIS MASTER POET AS A GUIDE, WRITE YOUR OWN POEM ON THE BACK
20 Dream Deferred (Questions right before the climax) Form Magic Make six stanzas Each simile must clarify the 1rst starts with What happens essence of the action when and ends with the Shows Strong Sense of EMOTION essence of the action (trapped, lost, afraid, cold etc.) Every stanza but 5th is a question Follow Master s line format: first word in each sentence and rhyme pattern similes in stanzas 2-4 Signature and title emulated from Master Draft:
21 Model the Masters Response COLOR ANALYSIS of POEM # YELLOW box = explanation of title and theme BLUE underline = confusing words or phrases Old Age Sticks by e.e.cummings old age sticks up Keep Off signs)& youth yanks them down(old age cries No Tres)&(pas) youth laughs (sing old age scolds Forbid den Stop Must n't Don't &)youth goes right on gr owing old GREEN circle = imagery RED underline = words new to you FORM: SOUND: UNDERSTANDING THE POEM (see Literature and Language pg ) How many lines in each stanza? How many stanzas (if any). Is there a rhyme pattern? Rhythm? Repetition? Alliteration? Is this Free Verse? IMAGERY: How and where did the poet use words and phrases that appealed to the five senses? Circle these words and phrases in GREEN. FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE: Any similes? What about metaphors? Any personifications? Circle any you fine in ORANGE. ALLUSION: PURPOSE: Any reference to other people, places, or things from the present or past? Where? Circle poem s purpose: share a message, convey a feeling, start you questioning and thinking, make you laugh, or tell a story? In PURPLE underline lines that support your choice? THEME: What is the big idea the author wants the reader to understand when they are done? NOW, USING THIS MASTER POET AS A GUIDE, WRITE YOUR OWN POEM ON THE BACK
22 old Age Sticks (12 The Climax) Form Magic Title is the first line of poem Climaz is understood - not lost in Five Stanzas with: the form 3 words 2 words 1 words 2 words Parenthesis are used Interesting punctuation (not spelling) Play with language and reading aloud Signature and title emulated from Master Draft:
23 Model the Masters Response COLOR ANALYSIS of POEM # YELLOW box = explanation of title and theme GREEN circle = imagery BLUE underline = confusing words or phrases RED underline = words new to you Mother to Son by Langston Hughes Well, son, I'll tell you: Life for me ain't been no crystal stair. It's had tacks in it, And splinters, And boards all torn up, And places with no carpet on the floor -- Bare. But all the time I'se been a-climin' on, And reachin' landin's, And turnin' corners, And sometimes goin, in the dark Where there ain't been no light. So boy, don't you turn back. Don't you set down on the steps 'Cause you finds it's kinder hard. Don't you fall now -- For I'se still goin', honey, I'se still climbin' And Life for me ain't been no crystal stair. FORM: SOUND: IMAGERY: UNDERSTANDING THE POEM (see Literature and Language pg ) How many lines in each stanza? How many stanzas (if any). Is there a rhyme pattern? Rhythm? Repetition? Alliteration? Is this Free Verse? How and where did the poet use words and phrases that appealed to the five senses? Circle these words and phrases in GREEN. FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE: Any similes? What about metaphors? Any personifications? Circle any you fine in ORANGE. ALLUSION: PURPOSE: Any reference to other people, places, or things from the present or past? Where? Circle poem s purpose: share a message, convey a feeling, start you questioning and thinking, make you laugh, or tell a story? In PURPLE underline lines that support your choice? THEME: What is the big idea the author wants the reader to understand when they are done? NOW, USING THIS MASTER POET AS A GUIDE, WRITE YOUR OWN POEM ON THE BACK
24 Form Three Stanzas with: Mother to Son (Resolution / Falling Action / Theme # s 13-16) Magic Leaves reader satisfied 6 lines Wraps up the story 13 lines Theme / advise can be generalized 1 line to other areas Star 1rst line with Well... 2nd and last line are the same and of the poem / story are a statement of lesson / purpose of story with a simile Each line begins with a capital Correct use of punctuation Different dialect (optional) Signature and title emulated from Master Draft: Reader can feel the emotion of the
Model the Masters Response
COLOR ANALYSIS of POEM #1 Fog The fog come on little cat feet. It sits looking over harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on. --Carl Sandburg Circle these words and phrases in GREEN COLOR ANALYSIS
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