Final Poetry Portfolio:
Name:
To conclude the poetry unit, you will be compiling a poetry portfolio that showcases you
work with the poems we’ve studied as a class, one poem you select on your own, and one
original poem of your creation. You will include two short analysis papers, one about a
your choice poem, and one in response to your own writing. For both, you’ll focus on
how an author creates tone in poetry using specific tools like: imagery, figurative
language, and word choice. This is a place to showcase your creative abilities to write
and interpret poetry.
Your portfolio will contain the following pieces:
1) A cover that contains images that pertain to the poems you select, and has a title
that alludes to the themes you explore in these poems.
2) A clean copy of your choice poem.
3) A color-marked and annotated copy of your choice poem.
4) Your short analysis of your choice poem including a rough draft, peer-edit, and
final draft.
5) Your marked-up copy of: “Southbound on the Freeway” and “A Barred Owl” or
“Fog”
6) Your Sense Walk notes
7) A clean copy of your original poem
8) A color-marked and annotated copy of your original poem.
9) A peer-edit of your original poem.
10) An analysis of your own poem.
11) Your post-assessment self-checklist about poetry
These should all be typed. Talk to me if this will be a problem.
The Final Portfolio will be due: Tuesday 5/10 and will be worth 50 points (BIG
GRADE)
Find your own poetry. Color mark for figurative language, word choice, and imagery.
Identify the speaker, the setting, the tone, and different ideas about the message or
meaning.
For the essay that you select, you will write a short analysis (2 pages) where you create a
brief introduction (author, title, short context) that finishes with a thesis statement that
deals with the specific devices that the author uses to create tone in his or her poem.
In your body paragraphs, you will use your thesis to guide a discussion of tone by citing
specific words, phrases, and lines of the poem, and discussing the devices that the author
uses to achieve his or her goals.
We’ve read:
“Southbound on the Freeway”
“How to Eat a Poem”
“Hope is the Thing with Feathers”
“Mother to Son”
“A Barred Owl”
“Lost”
“The Accident”
“Mirror”
You’ve written:
Extended Metaphor Poem
Nature/Image Poem
Object Poem
Friday:
Image poem
Barred Owl
Lost
tone
Monday: 4.18
“Mirror”
tone/word choice
HW: Object poem due Block Day for 1/3, Friday for 4
Tuesday: 4.19
Work on Object Poem
In-class write: select one of the poem’s we’ve studied
Color mark/annotate (with guides/model)
Thesis about tone: specific device/devices that establishes tone due Block Day
Block Day: 4.20/21
Check off thesis statements
Lab: writing short analysis (one intro, one perfect body paragraph)
Friday: 4.22
Lab: writing short analysis (print what you have)
First draft due Monday for peer-edit
Monday:4.25
Peer-edit
HW: make changes, final due Block Day
Intro: Finding Poetry Assignment
Tuesday: 4.26
Finding Poetry Assignment
Taylor Mawli
Block Day: 4.27/28
Short analysis due
Finding Poetry Assignment
Share with group
Color mark
½ page reflection (What is the tone? How did the author create it? Why did you select
this poem?)
Friday: 4.29
Your poetry workshop: writing it, reading it, peer-editing it, self-editing it
Editing checklist for writing own poetry
Final draft of your chosen poem due Monday: clean and colored-marked
Monday: 5/2
Analysis assignment
Drafting
Thesis due
Tuesday: 5/3
Lab: intro and body paragraphs
Block: 5/4 and 5/5
Body paragraphs
Conclusion
Friday: 5/6
Final day in the lab
Final copy due Monday
Monday: 5/9
Compile Poetry Portfolios
Workday/covers
Tuesday: 5/10
Final Poetry Portfolio Due!
Poetry Night??
Block Day: 5/11 and 12
Romeo and Juliet!