General Enduring Understandings:

• Writing is rarely easy

•  The process of writing creates new insights and ideas

• The act of telling stories unites all of us in a global culture

• The more we write, the better writers we become

Poetry

“Good poetry is something to care about.”

-X.J. Kennedy

Essential Questions:

• How does reading poetry influence our writing?
• Does writing poetry enhance our appreciation of the genre?
• How do the elements of construction add to the message?
• What deserves to be a poem?

"A poem should not mean, but be. "

                                                -Archibald MacLeish

We'll cover these general areas as we study poetry:

  A. structure/form

                1. Fixed Forms

                     a. scansion/rhyme scheme

                     b. “classic” forms

                     c. Haiku & related forms

                2. “free verse” / lyric poetry

                3. concrete poetry

                4. found poetry

  B. Imagery

  C. “The Ending”