All About Me Poem - due Friday, April 19th (in class)

http://ettcweb.lr.k12.nj.us/forms/allaboutmepoem.htm
Open the above link and follow the instructions to creat an All About Me poem.  You may elaborate and extend the concept.

                                          Wet Wallaby, by Luc

The wet wallaby would feel really damp, yet soft, is a little bundel of joy, and likes to chitter chat to his friends, and is very nice. The outback is home to a wallaby snack like a leaf, growing well and happy to be picked and eaten by a wallaby, who is like a fussy baby when it comes to food.

Poetic Devices & Figurative Language in Poetry

Create a poem using each of the poetic devices included in this video.  Post your poem.

Figurative Language in Poetry

What is the poetic device Tigger is referring to?  Give me 3 examples. (Post your answer and no repeats.)

What will your verse be?

Poetic Phrasing

Before the World Intruded

Michele Rosenthal

Return me to those infant years,
before I woke from sleep,
when ideas were oceans crashing,
my dreams blank shores of sand.
Transport me fast to who I was
when breath was fresh as sight,
my new parts — unfragmented —
shielded faith from unkind light.
Draw for me a figure whole, so different
from who I am. Show me now
this picture: who I was
when I began.
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Read the above poem.  What do you think the message is that the poet is trying to convey?  Pick one phrase you think sounds poetic.  What do you think makes this particular phrase sound poetic?

An Ode To Books

http://youtu.be/hoSew23hsLo