Poetry
Ideas You Can Use For Writing and Analyzing Poetry Today!
Black Out Poetry
Check out this prezi on making black out poems!
Texas Star Offerings that are written in verse!
A Lesson for Odes
I use these resources for teaching Odes. I begin with a strategy from Making Thinking Visible to get students thinking about what they will read called See Think Wonder. They will read 3 odes that have something to do with the pictures below.
After they read the odes by Gary Soto, they can respond by using the hexagon, focusing on the poem they liked best. It's a great way to get the students to practice literary analysis.
I also like reading the picture book about Pablo Neruda, a famous writer of odes.
Finally, I share Ode to a Commode and challenge students to write an ode of their own in that concrete poetic style.
Odes
An ode is a lyric poem typically of elaborate or irregular metrical form and expressive of exalted or enthusiastic emotion.
Pablo Neruda and Gary Soto are well known for their odes to ordinary things and finding beauty in their simplicity.
See-Think-Wonder
What do you see?
What do you think is going on?
What does it make you wonder?
Look at the photos above.
What do you notice about each one? (observations only)
Based on what you see/notice, what does it make you think? What kind of interpretations can we form based on our observations?
What do you wonder based on what you have seen and have been thinking?