DIRECTIONS: It’s time for you to flex your creative muscles! For this project, you will write THREE poems. There are several poem templates below from which to choose. If you’re already a poet, feel free to create one poem without using one of the provided templates! In order to help your poems come to life, you will submit them as part of an aesthetically pleasing slideshow This means it needs to look good! Your slideshow should have a title slide with your name, class period, and a creative title for your project. You will design one slide for each poem. Please use colorful and unique (but readable) fonts. Be sure to include school-appropriate images and/or attractive backgrounds for each different poem. Also, everyone will share one poem they wrote with the class. Closely review the grading rubric and the poem template options before you begin this project!

GRADING RUBRIC:
Poem #1 - 10 points
It is at least 10 lines
Includes a creative title
It follows one of the provided templates
Aesthetically pleasing slide
Poem #2 - 10 points
It is at least 10 lines
Includes a creative title
It follows one of the provided templates
Aesthetically pleasing slide
Poem #3 - 10 points
It is at least 10 lines
Includes a creative title
It follows one of the provided formats OR is a poem format of your choice
Aesthetically pleasing slide
Presentation - 5 points
Share one poem - you can either share your screen with the class or you can turn on your camera and read your poem aloud

POEM OPTIONS:
1) Write a childhood memory in poem form. Use very specific details. Example: You could write about how you learned to ride a bike or the time you almost drowned in the pool.

2) Think of a photograph that has you in it. What mood does it evoke in you - delight, peace, apprehension, confusion, etc.? In one stanza of your poem, write a vivid description of the photograph. In the next stanza, write what you remember about the time it was taken – make the reader feel the mood you felt that day. Example: You could write about the picture that was taken the day you went to King’s Island for the first time with your best friend.

3) Write down an abstract word: love hate, happiness, fear, peace, honesty, beauty, freedom, etc. (Remember abstract nouns are ideas, characteristics, feelings, and qualities.) Then write down several specifics to bring it to your mind. Choose the one you like best and arrange it in lines that please you. You could also write one line for each different abstract word. Example: Loneliness is a stick drifting down the river with no one watching.

4) Write a poem describing an ordinary object – an apple, a cigarette, a napkin – in an extraordinary way. Don’t say what the object is until the last line. OR you could try writing a poem talking to something or someone you don’t ordinarily talk to – your arm, the sun, your ex-bestie, whatever.

5) Write down a hodgepodge of thoughts and observations about any one group that interests you – dentists, joggers, bus drivers, life guards, cheerleaders, etc. After you have plenty of material, select the best and arrange them in lines you like.

6) Think of a person you have a clear-cut attitude toward – like love, envy, or scorn. Write a poem using that person’s name in every line, but don’t use the word that tells the attitude. If you do a good job with the details, the name will MEAN love, envy, or scorn – whatever – by the time the reader gets to the last line. Example: If you love Billy, you may write a poem saying – Billy is patient, Billy is kind…

7) Try using personification by starting a poem with “I, the ocean…” or “I, the wind…” or any other nonhuman thing that intrigues you.

8) Write two cinquain poems – they are five lines in length.
Line 1: Title 2 syllables
Line 2: Description of title 4 syllables
Line 3: Action about the title 6 syllables
Line 4: Feeling about the title 8 syllables
Line 5: Synonym for title 2 syllables
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Line 1: Title 1 word
Line 2: Description of title 2 words
Line 3: Action about the title 3 words
Line 4: Feeling about the title 4 words
Line 5: Synonym for title 1 word