Poetry WebQuest

Poetry WebQuest designed by:

Sandi OÕBryan

Technology Teacher  

Byrns Darden Elementary School

ÒPoetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world,

and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.Ó

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)

 

You are just a kid.  So how can you possibly create, illustrate, and publish your own original poems?  Not a problem.  By the end of this school year you will have done all that and more!  It's fun and it's easy!  Get ready as you embark on a poetic adventure, which you will continue throughout the remainder of this school year!

Poetry is a creative form of expression that people have used for centuries.  Poetry is not limited to rhyme but includes many different forms.  Learning about the many types of poetry can be exciting when it is broken down into baby steps that are easy to understand.  And whatÕs the easiest and best way to really understand something new?  Hands-on experience!  ThatÕs right, you are not going to just learn about poetry, you are actually going to become a published author!

Are you ready?  Then let your poetry adventure begin!

 

Acrostic Poem

á      http://volweb.utk.edu/Schools/bedford/harrisms/acrossti.htm

á      http://www.holycross.edu/departments/socant/dhummon/acrostics/acrostics.html

á      http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/acrostic/

á      http://www.gigglepoetry.com/poetryclass/acrostic.html

 

 

Biography Poem (Bio-Poem)

á      http://ettcweb.lr.k12.nj.us/forms/biography.htm

á      http://www.seedsofknowledge.com/biopoems.html

á      http://www.canteach.ca/elementary/poetry1.html

á      http://www.eduref.org/cgi-bin/printlessons.cgi/Virtual/Lessons/Language_Arts/Writing/WCP0003.html

á      http://192.107.108.56/portfolios/k/king_j/biopoem/howtowriteabiopoem.htm

 

 

Cinquain

gradually increasing number of syllables in each line until the last line, which returns to two syllables

á      http://its.guilford.k12.nc.us/webquests/poetry/cinquain.html

á      http://ettcweb.lr.k12.nj.us/forms/newpoem.htm

á      http://hrsbstaff.ednet.ns.ca/davidc/6c_files/Poem%20pics/cinquaindescrip.htm

 

Couplet

a pair of lines of poetry that are rhymed

á      http://volweb.utk.edu/Schools/bedford/harrisms/couplet.htm

á      http://www.gigglepoetry.com/poetryclass/sick.html

á      http://www.uni.edu/~gotera/CraftOfPoetry/couplet.html

 

 Diamond (Diamante) Poetry

Diamond-shaped poems with 7 lines

á      http://ettcweb.lr.k12.nj.us/forms/newpoem.htm

á      http://library.thinkquest.org/5236/diamond%20poem.html

á      http://www.canteach.ca/elementary/poetry6.html

á      http://www.arcticobs.org/teach_resrcs/prompts/diamond_poetry_page2.htm

 

 

ÒFive WÕsÓ Poem

Answers  the 5 W's (who? what? when? where? why?)

 

*      http://its.guilford.k12.nc.us/webquests/poetry/5ws.html

 

*      http://www.edu.pe.ca/cardigan/grassroots/grass02_03/gr7m/POETRY/st10in.htm

 

*      http://www.canteach.ca/elementary/poetry2.html

 

 

 

 

 

Haiku

Japanese form of poetry, form is 17 syllables in three lines with pattern 5-7-5,  usually has nature themes

 

*      http://www.big.or.jp/%7Eloupe/links/ehisto/ehisinx.shtml

 

*      http://www.gigglepoetry.com/poetryclass/Haiku.html

 

*      http://volweb.utk.edu/Schools/bedford/harrisms/haiku.htm

 

*     http://fmwriters.com/Visionback/Issue 2/poetry.htm

 

 

 

 

 

 ÒI AmÓ Poem

 The format for this special poem was created by Alysa Cummings

 

*      http://ettcweb.lr.k12.nj.us/forms/newpoem.htm

 

*      http://www.canteach.ca/elementary/poetry3.html

 

*      http://score.rims.k12.ca.us/score_lessons/symbols_freedom/pages/i_am_poem.html

 

 

 

 

 

Lament

 

*      http://ettcweb.lr.k12.nj.us/forms/newpoem.htm

 

á      http://www.oncolink.com/coping/poetry/poetry.cfm?p=12

 

 

 

 

 

Limerick

highly controlled poem - lines 1, 2 and 5 rhyme; lines 3 and 4 rhyme.

 

*    http://ettcweb.lr.k12.nj.us/forms/newpoem.htm

 

*      http://www.gigglepoetry.com/poetryclass/limerickcontesthelp.html

*      http://www.ehow.com/how_3332_write-limerick.html

 

 

Lune

á      http://anitraweb.org/kalliope/lunes.html

á      http://ettcweb.lr.k12.nj.us/forms/lune.htm

 

 

Octopoem

 describes a person or topic through this eight line formula

á      http://ettcweb.lr.k12.nj.us/forms/octopoem.htm

á      http://teachit.acreekps.vic.edu.au/poetry/octopoem.htm

 

 

Pensee Poem

 a syllabic poem with line lengths in the stanza of 2, 4, 7, 8, and 6, respectively

á      http://ettcweb.lr.k12.nj.us/forms/pensee.htm

á      http://www.findpoetry.com/messageboard/viewtopic.php?t=3312&sid=2

á      http://www.findpoetry.com/messageboard/viewtopic.php?t=3313&sid=2

 

 

Sonnet

means "little song"

á      http://www.sonnets.org/

á      http://njnj.essortment.com/howtowriteson_rqas.htm

á      http://modena.intergate.ca/personal/gslj/sonneteliz.html

á       http://www.ehow.com/how_3335_write-sonnet.html

 

 

Tanka Poem

31 syllables with 5 lines, the order of the syllables are 5,7,5,7,7

á      http://ettcweb.lr.k12.nj.us/forms/tankapoem.htm

á      http://www.art.net/~kiyotei/tankapoem.html

á      http://www.saintjohnsabbey.org/lawrence/6poems.html

á      http://www.k12.nf.ca/catalina/Tankapoetry/characteristicpage.htm

á      http://www.edu.pe.ca/vrcs/grassroots/2002/grade6/famous/jason/poem.htm

 

 

 ÒWhat IfÓ Poem

á      http://ettcweb.lr.k12.nj.us/forms/what.htm