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Monday
This week we will be building on what we learned last week and having lots of fun being poets. Watch this video about how we can
make writing poems as fun as it can be!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BSG2QRj_4M
In the clip, Joseph Coelho explains a term called ‘onomatopoeia’ which means a word that sounds like the thing it is describing, such
as ‘drip,’ ‘plop’ or ‘splat.’
Your task is to come up with at least 5 different onomatopoeic words and then find some rhyming words. When you are finished, try to
create a rhyming couplet for each word.
Example:
Drip — sip, tip, lip, hip, pip
The tap went drip, drip, drip,
It landed on my lip.
Splat — hat, cat, that, pat, sat, rat
The falling cake landed, ‘splat!’
It landed on the old man’s hat.
© can you use a dictionary to find new rhyming words? Try to expand your vocabulary by finding and learning the meaning of 3
new words.
Tuesday
Using simile in poetry. Lots of poems use similes to create images in your mind. Read the poem ‘Shape of a Greyhound’ and see if you can
remember what a simile is! (There is a reminder below)
Did you get it? A simile compares one thing to another, using the words like or as. A head like a snake means that the greyhounds head resembles that of a snake. It doesn’t really have a serpent
head, but by wording it this way, the poet makes the reader think about the shape of the greyhound’s head.
Using similes like this also gives the poem great rhythm and structure and makes it easy for the poet to figure out where they want their
rhymes to be!
We are going to rethink some well-known similes. Fill in or write on your own sheet, a new simile for each of the following. The first one
is done for you.
As fresh as a daisy: As fresh as a baby
As busy as a bee: As busy as_____________________________
As cool as a cucumber: _______________________________
As clean as a whistle: _________________________________
As flat as a pancake: ___________________________________
As quiet as a mouse: ____________________________________
As quick as a wink: _____________________________________
As snug as a bug: ______________________________________
© Can you come up with some new ones?
As loud as a _____________
As big as a _______________
As angry as a ______________
As brave as a _____________-
As ____________ as a ____________
As ____________ as a _________________
Wednesday
This is another example of a simile poem, but this one has a twist in that the poet is speaking about themselves! We are going to try this today. Feel free to use the structure below for your task, or to make
it up yourself.
I am as ________________ as a ________________,
And as ________________ as a ________________.
I am _______________ like a _________________,
And _________________ like a __________________.
My ____________ is/are as ____________ as a ____________,
And my ____________ is/are as ___________ as a _____________
_______________________________________________________
______________________________________________________
Thursday
Using everything you have learned in the last 3 weeks, today you are going to write an amazing poem about yourself. Poetry can really help us to express how we are feeling, and at times like this it is
important to use our creativity whenever possible!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcTdjH_vugk
Joseph Coelho explains how he uses poetry to express his feelings by using personification and emotional imagery. We are going to follow
the same idea.
First, come up with a list of words to describe how you feel.
Example: Happy, excited, tired, bored, warm.
Once you have this, try to come up with rhyming words for each word.
Example: Happy – Sappy, a tree, that tea
Excited – delighted, enlightened
Then, try to use this list to come up with rhyming couplets.
Using the rhyming structures you learned about last week, put them together to form your own poem! Spend a bit of time editing and
improving your work, don’t be afraid to change it up
Please share any completed work to your class celebration email.
Friday
Again, we are looking at words ending in the suffix -’ation’ which is used to turn a verb into a noun. For example,
“I admire her, she definitely has my admiration.”
Answers below: