My Book of Poetry Name: ______________________________ Date: ______________ What is poetry? There are many different styles of poetry? The three main kinds of poetry are narrative, dramatic, and lyrical but there are actually fifty types of poetry. We are going to discuss just nine. Some Famous Poets: Some Famous Poems? Vocabulary A Narrative Poem A Dramatic Poem A Lyrical Poem An Acrostic Poem Haiku Ode Sonnet Pantoum Vocabulary Villanelle Ekphrastic Ghazal Free Verse Iambic Pentameter Couplet Quatrains Tercet Read Some Poetry My Chosen Poets My Chosen Poems ______________________ ___________________________ ______________________ ___________________________ My favorite poem was __________________________________ My favorite poem was written by: ___________________________ I chose this poem because: ____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ This____________________________ poem was about: ____________________________ ____________________________ ____________________________ ____________________________ ____________________________ ____________________________ Let's Write A Narrative Poem Something important that happened to me: __________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ A memorable event I attended: __________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ A time I overcame an obstacle: __________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ A story I think is worth telling: __________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ Decision Time My beginning will contain 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___________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________ Let's Write A Dramatic Poem Something that made me feel very strong emotions: __________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ Something I could write a passionate speech about: __________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ A time I was involved in a very serious situation: __________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ A story I think is worth telling: __________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ Who am I addressing?: ______________________________________________________________________ What do I want my reader to feel? ______________________________________________________________________ What mood do I want this poem to instill? ______________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________My Dramatic Poem ___________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________ 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___________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________ Let's Write A Lyrical Poem A topic that is close to your heart and can be described as feelings: __________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ Three emotions that you associate with each other. __________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ A time I was involved in a very serious situation: __________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________ A story I think is worth telling: __________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________ Who am I addressing?: ____________________________________________________________________________________________ What do I want my reader to feel? ____________________________________________________________________________________________ What mood do I want this poem to instill? ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________My Lyrical Poem ___________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________ 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