Title: Poetry Book
Folder: Writing
Task Description:
To create a poetry book dedicated to my mom for Mother's Day.
Criteria:
A front and a back cover suitable for your poetry book. **Please create original art
(don’t simply cut and paste an image from the computer)
• A dedication page
• Bio Poem
• Happiness Poem
• White Poem
• A combination of at least 5 other types of poems from the “Writing Fun” website
& our poetry practice booklet.
• Be neatly displayed to the best advantage on each page.
• Have creative, original artistic details
• Have perfect spelling, capitalization & punctuation (if necessary)
Goals
Task goals:
To use descriptive, poetic words to convey a mood
To create poems that would appeal to my mom
To display my poems in the most artistic way possible
To learn new forms of poetry and write them effectively
To revise effectively to make my poems sound their best
To edit effectively to avoid careless mistakes that could detract from my poem.
To have everything polished and published by May 1st so that the book can be
bound and completed by Mother’s Day
Strategies:
To look at examples of poetry from notes, in books and on the Internet
To use my “Mini-thesaurus”, online Webster’s Thesaurus, Word Wall, Magnetic
Poetry page and other resources for descriptive words
To share my poems with my teacher and peers to get feedback and ideas
To keep all of my work as I go
To start EARLY and to use my time well!