Your MissionYou will travel to around the world learning about different types of poetry.After reading information from each form of poetry, you will receive a clue.Work to complete each poetry mission to move on to the next level.You will be rewarded upon the completion of this trip!

Follow the Symbols!• Click the on the bottom of

every clue page to return to the map after completing each task. You must go to every star!

• If you finished early, click on the to visit fun poetry sites!

• Click on the action buttons to move from slide to slide within a country.

Click on a star to go to a country on the map. Read through the slides, then complete the task

for a reward!

Japan

Haiku

• Japanese form of poetry that is hundreds of years old

• Very short in length• Creates a picture, usually of nature• Form:– Seven syllables– Five syllables– Seven syllables

The Flower

The red blossom bends 

and drips its dew to the ground.

 Like a tear, it falls.

Haiku Clue• Click on the envelope to see your

task!• Log in and follow directions.• You must answer the question

posted and respond to one student.• When you are finished, click on the

star to go back to the map!

Greece

Imagery

• Derived from Greece.• Draws the reader into a poem by

using the senses (sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch)

• Focuses on images the reader already knows to create a picture in his/her mind.

Stars by Robert Frost

How countlessly they congregate O'er our tumultuous snow,

Which flows in shapes as tall as trees When wintry winds do blow!--

As if with keenness for our fate, Our faltering few steps on

To white rest, and a place of rest Invisible at dawn,--

And yet with neither love nor hate, Those stars like some snow-white Minerva's snow-white marble eyes

Without the gift of sight.

Imagery Clue• Click on the envelope below to

go to your next clue.• Write a four line poem using

imagery.• Type your poem in the Glogster

text box and insert two pictures to support your poem.

• When you are finished, click on the star to go back to the map!

California

Diamante• Unrhymed form of poetry created by

Dr. Iris Tiedt from California. • Poem forms a diamond shape.

Day

Bright, sunny,

Laughing, playing, doing,

Up in the east, down in the west-

Talking, resting, sleeping,

Quiet, dark,

Night

The Diamante Poem Arrangement

Line 1: NounLine 2: Two adjectives

Line 3: Three action verbs that end in "-ing"Line 4: Four nouns

Line 5: Three action verbs that end in "-ing"Line 6: Two adjectives

Line 7: Noun

Diamante Clue

• Click on the envelope to see the task you need to complete!

• Create a Diamante Poem with your partner.

• Tell your teacher when you are done so you can be rewarded!

Greece

Acrostic• Comes from Greek origins• Each line of the poem begins

with a letter from the topic word.• All lines in the poem must relate

to the topic word.

TRAMPOLINE

Tumbling through the airReady to becomeAir born at anyMoment, feeling the springsPush you upOver and around againLight as a featherInstantly rebounding,Naturally full ofEnergy

Acrostic Clue

• Click on the envelope.• When you are finished, click on the

star to go back to the map!

France

Cinquain

• Dates back to Medieval French poetry.

• Also known as a quintet because it has five lines.

• Has a rhymes scheme of ababb, abaab or abccb.

Bubbles

BubblesDelicate balls

Softly floating aboveUnbelievable happiness

Transparent

Cinquain Clue• Click on envelope.• Click Play.• Click on the cactus picture to make a

cinquain.• When you are finished, click on the

star to go back to the map!

England

Limerick

• Limerick poems can be traced back to the 14th century in English history.

• Used in Nursery Rhymes and other poems for children.

• They are short and funny.

The Form of Limericks

Limericks consist of five lines.Lines 1, 2, and 5 of Limericks have seven to

ten syllables and rhyme with one another. Lines 3 and 4 of Limericks have five to seven

syllables and also rhyme with each other.

Naughty Child

A naughty young child at the zooTeased a tortoise and polar bear too!

But, by the look of the smileOn that big crocodile,

I think his teasing has ended,Don’t you?

Limerick Activity

• Click on the envelope below to go to the task you need to complete!

• When you are finished, click on the star to go back to the map!

Brazil

Concrete Poetry• Started in Brazil.• Takes the shape of the object or

animal it is describing.• Can be in any shape or form you

can imagine!

Dove’s Song

Sailboat

Concrete Clue

• Click on the envelope below to go to the task you need to complete!

• When you are finished, click on the star to go back to the map!

New York

Free Verse

• Has been around for hundreds of years, but American poet Walt Whitman is given credit for making the form famous.

• Free verse is a poem without meter or rhyme.

Song of the Open RoadBy: Walt Whitman

Afoot and light-hearted,

I take to the open road,

Healthy, free, the world before me, The long brown path

before me, leading wherever I

choose.

Free Verse Clue

• Click on the envelope below to complete your next task.

• Make a free verse poem that is three lines long by moving the magnets around on the board.

• Once you are finished, click on the lightning bolt to complete additional activities.

Click on an envelope below to take you to additional poetry activities!

Paint Splatter!

Poetry Engine!

Poetry Form Finder!

Poetry Videos

Rhyming Game

Monster Similes

Poetry Webquest!

Web 2.0 Tools and Sites• Haiku Chat: http://www.todaysmeet.com/AlexanderPoetry• Imagery Glogster:

http://edu.glogster.com/edit/glog/?action=glogs_create• Diamante Poem Template:

http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/diamante/

• Acrostic Poem Template: http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/acrostic/

• Cinquain Creator: http://teacher.scholastic.com/writewit/poetry/flash_pie.htm

• Online Limerick Quiz: http://www.mystudiyo.com/ch/a115178/go• Concrete Poem Creator:

http://www.wild-about-woods.org.uk/elearning/concretepoetry/• Free Verse Word Magnets:

http://www.magneticpoetry.com/kidspoetry/createpoem.cfm?kit=3

Resources• Amazing Race photo:

http://momentumoffailure.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/amazing-race.jpg

• Amazing Race envelope picture: http://www.flickr.com/photos/dryedmangoez/454930742/

• Shooting star picture: http://www.wallpaperseek.com/shooting-star-wallpapers_w5008.html

• World map picture: http://alxa.ru/file/wallpaper/world_map.jpg• Animated plane:

http://www.freefever.com/animatedgifs/animated/plane15.gif• World flags:

http://www.learnsmart.ca/main/images/W302_WorldFlags_Front.jpg• Maps of countries:

http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&q=maps%20of%20countries&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi

• All music files: http://abmp3.com/• Animated envelope:• http://www.mrmedders.co.uk/natsweb/Images/animated-envelope.gif

Resources, cont’d• Japanese scene:

http://images.mylot.com/userImages/images/postphotos/2091648.jpghttp://www.kohlersjapan.com/pics/JapanInfo/map_japan.jpg

• Pictures of Greece: http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=Greece&FORM=BIFD#• Beach background;

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1023/1075121472_3a95a615c6.jpg• Dolphin picture:

http://www.digitaldesktopwallpaper.com/wallpapers/desktop-wallpapers/dolphin_wallpaper_005_1024.jpg

• Animated star background: http://www.feebleminds-gifs.com/myanistarback2.gif• Pictures of California:

http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=California&FORM=BIFD#• Marquise diamond picture:

http://www.sheerdiamonds.com/shop/images/marquise-diamond.jpg• Trampoline picture: http://sarahdessen.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/europa-

trampoline-md.jpg• Pictures of France: http://1photoblog.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/eiffel-tower-

at-night-paris-france.jpg• Picture of Big Ben:

http://englishdepths.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/big_ben_at_dusk_london_england2.jpg

Resources, cont’d• Limerick picture:• http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ZW59DlfzvFI/Rrb9erBjZHI/AAAAAAAAATo/

1XH91DriNRI/s400/screenhunter_07_may_12_1657.gif• Picture of kid with bear:

http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/funny-pictures-polar-bear-kid-glass-zoo.jpg

• Pictures of Brazil: http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=Brazil&FORM=BIFD#

• Concrete poetry examples: http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&q=concrete%20poetry&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi

• Pictures of New York: http://www.google.com/images?um=1&hl=en&tbs=isch%3A1&sa=1&q=New+York&aq=f&aqi=g10&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=

• Picture of woods: http://www.google.com/images?um=1&hl=en&tbs=isch%3A1&sa=1&q=wooded+road&aq=f&aqi=g10&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=