Poetry Portfolio due Monday, September 30
You are to compile a portfolio of your work from our study of poetry. The compilation will include
things you have already written as well as two new assignments. For each previously written
assignment, you are asked to revise and polish one last time. Any new work should be
submitted in final draft form.
Portfolios must include:
1. A Title Page with a creative, meaningful title, your name, and the date
2. Table of Contents
3. 4 journals from your notes on various poems we have read
4. 1 “Found” poem, with title, and identify story/page passage was drawn from, with
reflection
5. Your image poem on a given topic, with title, with reflection
6. 1 new, original poem (+5 for a sonnet in iambic pentameter), with reflection
7. Your 1 paragraph analysis, with revisions, with reflection on areas of strength and
areas for growth in writing analysis
8. A new, multi­paragraph analysis on poem chosen from the list below
9. About the author
For your second poetry analysis, choose one of the following poems and write an essay
in which you analyze the poem’s by discussing the author’s use of at least 2 elements of
poetry.
"Ode to a Grecian Urn" 816
"13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" 851
"She Walks in Beauty" 801
"A Valediction: Forbidden Mourning" 788
"i thank you God..." 787
'Sestina" 766
"To His Coy Mistress" 826
"When I consider how my light is spent" 829
"Dulce et Decorum Est" 834
"A Noiseless, Patient Spider" 862
"Leda and the Swan" 875
"I'm Wife" 634
"This World is not Conclusion" 645
"Mending Wall" 674
"Mowing" 675
Aquainted with the Night" 685
"Design" 688
"The Forge" 693
"The Negro Speaks of Rivers" 706
"Dream Boogie" 714
Theme for English B" 720
Poetry Portfolio Rubric
Portfolio Construction
____/5 TITLE PAGE: Includes an original title, your name, teacher
name, block and date
____/5 TABLE OF CONTENTS: Details pages for all poems, essays,
pictures, and
____/5
ORDER of the portfolio is effective and meaningful (not
randomly thrown everywhere)
____/5
Demonstrates versatility, engaging a variety of elements and styles
Portfolio Contents
_____/20 4 JOURNALS on poems we have read in class
_____/20 PARAGRAPH ANALYSIS: additional revisions present a more finished
product than what was initially turned in; provides a brief and insightful reflection on
your development in writing literary analysis
____/100 MULTI­PARAGRAPH ANALYSIS: Engages more than one element of
poetry, is at least two paragraphs; will be graded using 9­point AP rubric
____/30 3 POEMS: Include reflections
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1 “Found” Poem
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Adapted Image poem
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One new, original poem
____/10 ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Be yourself
Total:_________/200
*_____ bonus points received (+5 for sonnet in iambic pentameter)