Thursday, February 26, 2009

6/7 Grade English Poets

Currently the poets in grades 6th & 7th are writing a series of poems related to a topic of personal interest. The poetic styles they are using are as follows:

Terza Rima: Terza rima is a type of poetry consisting of 10 or 11 syllable lines arranged in three-line 
"tercets".

Rhyme: Rhymes are types of poems which have the repetition of the same or similar sounds at the end of two or more words most often at the ends of lines.

Acrostic Poem: Acrostic Poem or Name Poem tells about the word. It uses the letters of the word for the first letter of each line.

Students are in the final revision stage and will be preparing their work for presentation on entranceway walls.

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