Poetry Book Assignment
As a final project in our Poetry class, you will design a poetry
book.
This book will be a collection (anthology) of twenty poems
centered on a common theme such as an emotion or type of animal
or activity (love, hate, dogs, birds, dance, sports, etc.)
There should be ten found poems and ten poems that you write
using some of the forms and terms we have learned or experimented
with in class. Reviewing past assignments will help you remember
these, but some examples are: haiku, news poems, repetition,
alliteration, limericks, odes and narrative.
You can use online sources and poem books to find the ten poems
you do not write. They should each be by ten different poets.
Please re-type the poems you find in a word document and using
unique yet legible fonts, do not just use the printed or
photocopied format. Remember to include the poet’s name.
Each page must contain at least 9 lines of poetry, so in regards
to haiku, you would need to write/find three per page to meet
this requirement.
These poems will need to be typed, using a variety of fonts and
include the author or poets name. Traditionally, these names
appear at the end of the poem or the bottom of the page that the
poem is printed on. Put your name at the bottom of the page if
you wrote the poem.
This book will have a cover, and be bound in such matter. The
central theme of the poetry collection will appear as the title
on the cover along with your name.
As long as the 9 lines of poetry fit on each page of writing, you
can make/print the poem book on any size, color or type of paper
you desire.
This book will have page numbers and a table of contents listing
all the poems titles with the corresponding page number.
This book will have an illustration for each page of poetry. The
illustrations (20) will appear on the page opposite the page that
the poem is printed on and should take up most of the page or be
a series of framed/collaged images that accomplishes this. (like
a scrapbook page). These illustrations can be painted (bamboo?),
drawn, photographs you have taken, a collage from magazines or
newspapers, a clip art or Googled image or created using the
techniques Ron taught us on Photoshop. If you have stickers or
die-cuts you may also include those on your pages. The poems
could have borders around their pages as well, if you so wish.
Have fun creating these, you are welcome to use anything but the
duct tape in the art room for your illustrations.
Due:_May 18th, Monday (because of Memorial Day the following week)
They can be picked up on June 1st to be used/shown as Language
Arts Credit Projects to your WSLP teachers during credit week.