Students then watched the following school house rock clip on pronouns:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-v-gcNtNZGQ
Students were then timed for one minute and asked to write down as many pronouns as possible.
Students then took notes on the following poetic devices:
Students were then provided a handout on how to write an ODE (an Ancient Greek poem).
An ode poem:
·
addresses a particular thing
·
expresses personal and
emotional feeling
·
originated in Ancient Greece
·
uses similes, metaphors, and
hyperbole (and other poetic devices)
Examples:
Ode to an Olive
Oh
Olive,
You are
as precious to me as any gem,
With
your beautiful, pure skin as smooth as silk
And as
green as the grass in summertime.
I love
your taste and the smell of your tender fruit
Which
hides beneath your green armour.
Olive,
sweet, tasty Olive,
How I
love you so and my mealtimes wouldn't be the same
If you
weren't in my life.
Oh
Olive,
Nothing
can compare to you, nothing at all,
You are
food of the gods, a king's riches
And,
most importantly, you are mine, oh Olive!
Ode
To The Beast
One
eye of burnished brown
The
other of glowing yellow
Coat
the color of loamy ground
An
imposing, fearsome fellow
Peers
about and leaves no doubt
Those
orbs so fiercely feral
That
to try to pet, one might regret
Best
be done at one’s own peril
Muzzle
abounding with teeth so white
Sharp
claws clicking upon the stones
Jaws
and claws and gaping maw
Designed
each and all for crushing bones
God
only knows what that cold wet nose
Can
sense, scent and conjure up…
For
now tho’ at least, he’s a tiny beast
Na’
more than a warm, wriggly, Wee pup
Please try writing
an ode of your own.
Students then wrote odes and read them to each other at the end of class.
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