2. Vote for Word Wall

3. What is poetry?

4. “How to Eat a Poem”

6. What is Poetry?Brainstorm with your group to come up with at least 3 traits of a poem

7. Poetry: Evokes an emotional response May use sound and form techniques to create a certain aesthetic response (writing in lines, using rhymes, etc.) Individual mode of expression Hard to define Different for everyone

8. How to Eat a Poem by Eve Merriam Don't be polite. Bite in. Pick it up with your fingers and lick the juice thatmay run down your chin. It is ready and ripe now, whenever you are. You do not need a knife or fork or spoon or plate or napkin or tablecloth. For there is no coreor stemor rindor pitor seedor skinto throw away.

9. Personal Poetry Project Will write a variety of types of poems using different poetic techniques Completed poems will be kept in a folder in this room In October, poems will be typed and bound into a book to share at Open House