For this assignment, you will compile and
artistically arrange poems that represent your favorites in this
genre. Use poetry books, magazines, and Internet sites to assist you
with your search for poems. Choose from the following individual
project ideas:
a. Make an anthology of your favorite poems. Illustrate your
anthology with
photographs, pictures, or your own original drawings and paintings.
Add
comments about why you like each particular poem. Arrange the poems
in
some systematic way -- by sequence in your life, by subject, by mood,
and
so on. Number the pages and provide a Table of Contents.
b. Collect poems on one theme or subject such as flying, travel,
work, sports,
great men or women, interesting people, young people, stages of
life,
families, neighborhoods, friendship, love, patriotism, humor, war
and
peace, social protest, people and nature, wild animals, dogs, cats,
horses,
cities, landscapes, rivers, oceans, mountains, seasons, flowers,
etc.
Arrange them in a pleasingly illustrated book. Add comments about
why
you like each particular poem.
c. Make an anthology of the favorite poems of your favorite people --
your
mother, father, grandparents, other relatives, classmates, minister
or rabbi,
teachers, neighbors, celebrities, etc. Include the name (and
possibly
picture) of the person who chose it, and tell why he or she chose
it.
Include your own favorite poem, too.
d. Make a book of your own favorite poems. Write about things you
know
best -- real people, animals, things, places, dreams, and feelings.
Use
illustrations. A nice idea would be to add notes about what prompted
you
to write the poem.
e. Collect the words of current hit songs and pair them with poems on
similar
themes from your textbook or from other published poetry sources.
Compare and contrast the paired lyrics, paying particular attention
to the
purpose of the song vs. the poem.
* All projects must be submitted in a report
folder (or posted on the Web)
* Each project has a ten (10) poem minimum and a twenty (20) poem
maximum
* Illustrations or pictures required
* Table of contents and title page required
* Projects are to be typed (exception: note from parent re:
hardship)
* Neatness and thoroughness are part of the grade
* Suggestion: plastic page protectors make projects more durable
Visit a sample Poetry Project on the Web:
http://members.home.com/bleen2/poetry
Format
Neatness (includes folder choice, gluing, format)
Correct Spelling
Typed (or letter from home)
Table of Contents
Title Page
Poetry Choices
Minimum of 10 and max. of 20
Reasonable variety and length
Not all the same author or all music
Brief explanation of each choice
Authors' names are listed
Other
Includes illustrations or artistic borders
Follows directions
Uses creativity and/or an original touch
Total = ________/75 points
http://www.geocities.com/~spanoudi/poems/
Poet's Corner is an eclectic mix of poems provided for you to peruse
and contemplate. You will find many things here, both obscure and
familiar, from well and lesser known poets, from medieval ballads in
middle English to poems of the early 20th century.
http://eserver.org/poetry/
A collection of links to poetry, organized according to the poets'
names. Includes a set of links to essays and humor.
http://www.hti.umich.edu/bin/amv-idx.pl?page=bibl
The American Verse Project, a collaborative project between the
University of Michigan Humanities Text Initiative (HTI) and the
University of Michigan Press, is assembling an electronic archive of
volumes of American verse prior to 1920.
http://library.utoronto.ca/www/utel/rp/intro.html
Excellent collection of the great poets of the English language,
courtesy of Ian Lancashire. Included is an extensive collection of
criticism, both in verse and prose forms. The works are indexed by
poet, title, date, keyword and first line.
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/britpo.html
Hypertext Archive of Scholarly Editions Electronic Text Center. This
project invites scholars interested in Romantic and Victorian
literature and poetry to help build an Internet-accessible electronic
library of marked up and scholarly editions of books of poetry
produced between 1780-1900.
http://www.cc.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby/
A nice collection of famous poets and authors from America and Great
Britain, along with special collection prepared from the Columbia
University resources.
Designed by Anita Mattos