Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird

AGENDA:

Read the Wallace Stevens poem and student examples  (POEM IN PARTS)

Create your own poem in parts--

1. Twenty Little Poetry Projects

2. small Words

3.15 Sentence Portrait Poem

1. For the first-line starter, choose one of the following:

• You stand there… / No one is here… / In this (memory, photograph, dream, etc.), you are… / I think sometimes… / The face is… / We had been… / Now complete this sentence.

2. Write a sentence with a color in it.

3. Write a sentence with a part of the body in it.

4. Write a sentence with a simile (a comparison using like or as).

5. Write a sentence of over 15 words.

6. Write a sentence under eight words.

7. Write a sentence with a piece of clothing in it.

8. Write a sentence with a wish in it.

9. Write a sentence with an animal in it.

10. Write a sentence in which three or more words alliterate; that is they begin with the same initial consonant, as in “Suzie sells seashells by the seashore.”

11. Write a sentence with two commas.

12. Write a sentence with a smell and a color in it.

13. Write another sentence with a simile.

14. Write a sentence with four words or less in it.

15. Write a sentence to end this portrait that uses the word or words you chose for a title.

4. Ekphrastic Poem--postcard poem

5. 13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird

6. Poet Project--present biographical information about the poet, describe the style of his/her writing
(themes, imagery), and read two poems