Creative Writing
Thursday, December 15, 2011
Today’s Learning Targets
• Identify figurative language
• Use figurative language in your own writing
Today’s Agenda
1. Word of the day
2. Writing prompt
3. Share and guess game with writing prompt poems
4. Identifying figurative language activity/handout
5. Writing with figurative language handout
6. Writing free-verse poems—By the end of today, you
will have examples and ideas for 5 different poems.
You will need to have five poems written by tomorrow.
7. HOMEWORK:
– Bring a food item and a photograph to class tomorrow
– Finish the five short poems by tomorrow.
Word of the Day:
Malleable
• Capable of being shaped or molded
Writing Prompt-
1. Pick one of the images posted around the room (on the
front or side whiteboard, on the wall along the back) and
write a 10-15 line poem about it.
2. Work on using active verbs
3. Use concrete nouns
4. Work on making your writing concrete.
5. Be prepared to share and have others guess which picture
is the subject matter of your poem.
Figurative Language Assignment
• Figurative language
includes the
following:
– Metaphor
– Simile
– Personification
– Symbol
– Allegory
– irony
• On the handout, find the
examples of figurative language
and answer the questions. You
can work with your table partner
on this.
• Work on writing your own
figurative language poems. You
will write 3 short poems following
the examples on the 2nd handout.
• Feel free to also manipulate
forms and break out of the mold.
These are just starting places.
These ideas are malleable.
More poems to write
• After you wrote the three short poems for the
figurative language practice, look at the
examples from the 3rd handout (season poems
and apology poem or thank you poems)
• Write your own season poem
• Write either a short thank you or apology
poem (at least 5 lines).
To build portfolio
• Collect all the poetry you work on between
now and the next couple of weeks.
• So far, you have a color poem and the emotion
poem from Tuesday.
• After break, we will study various forms of
poetry.
HOMEWORK
• Finish the 5 poems from today.
• Bring the following two items to class tomorrow:
– a favorite food item for food poems
– a photograph that holds some memory for you
for memory photo poems
It is a required assignment (meaning points in the
grade book) to bring these things with you.