Mini Poetry Project Due: Friday, November 2, 2018

Focus of the Project: For this mini poetry project, you will use your poetry analysis skills to analyze a poem of your choice. This poetry project will keep with thematic question from Unit One and Unit Two: How do we overcome adversity?

Standards: ELAGSE7RL5: Analyze how a drama’s or poem’s form or structure (e.g.,soliloquy, sonnet) contributes to its meaning. ELAGSE7SL5: Include multimedia components and visual displays in presentations to clarify claims and findings and emphasize salient points. ELAGSE7L5: Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings. ELAGSE7W4: Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. ELAGSE7W10: Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a two) for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences.

You must include the following: 1. Poet background information (1-2 paragraphs, 7-10 complete sentences for each paragraph) 2. Poem analysis (Rhyme scheme, figurative language, and theme of the poem, how does the poem’s structure impact the reading of the poem?) 3. Poetry Recitation 4. Presentation/ Mini lesson. A brief (2-3 minute) presentation Presentations must also include a visual aid (PowerPoint, Poster, Booklet, etc.)

Steps to complete your project:

1. You are to research one poet and poem by one of the following poets Robert Frost E E Cummings Rudyard Kipling Langston Hughes Paul Dunbar Alfred Lord Tennyson Rita Dove Maya Angelou T.S.Eliot Audre Lord William Blake John Keats W.H. Auden Edward Hirsch Allen Ginsberg Walt Whitman Stephan Crane Carl Sandburg Gwendolyn Brooks Gary Soto Amy Lowell Emily Dickinson

*Resources: (These are sample areas to access the information you need.) Poets.org Poemhunter.org PoetryGenius.com Incredible People: Famous Poets Biography

2. Poet Background Information Write a 1-2 paragraph summary highlighting the poet’s life. You are to document your sources in a Works Cited Page. Topics and events to research and include: Birth – death dates Number of poems written Important life events Major accomplishments, awards, or publications Time period in which they lived, and how the time period/ culture/history can all have an effect on a poet’s world view or message! *If you look up the poem and poet on the internet and use someone else’s explanation and do not cite, you will receive a zero on this project. (That is called plagiarism).

3. Poem Analysis · What is the poem about? · How does the poem connect to the thematic question? How does the poem’s structure contribute to the meaning? · Literary Devices used (examples below) o Metaphor, simile, personification, onomatopoeia, etc. · Sound Devices used (examples below) o Rhyme scheme o Alliteration, assonance, consonance o Rhythm and meter

4. Mini-Lesson Presentation Create a visual aid (PowerPoint, Prezi, Poster, Booklet, etc.) Include: - Picture of the poet - Summary created of the poet’s life (Works Cited Page) - Copy of the poem - Poem analysis - Recite the poem for the class - Fun activity for the class ------Name: ______Date: ______Period: ______Grading Rubric

Possible Point Points Received

Background Information 20

Works Cited 10

Recitation 20

Poem Analysis 30

Mini Lesson (Oral Presentation) 10

Visual Aid 10

Total Points 100 ______/100 Comments:______