Writing Poetry Using Symbolism and Imagery

• Choose from one of the three pictures to use as a topic for a short poem to be written during the procedure. 
• Students will have 3-5 minutes to brainstorm ideas.
• Students will use Poetry Writing Engine to write a draft of their poem. 

Instructional Objectives:

SWBAT

• Work within a peer editing group.
• Write poetry using imagery.
• Write poetry using symbolism.

Peer Review:

• Students will print poem from the poetry writing engine and break into pairs. 
• In pairs students will begin a peer editing session.  Please follow the peer editing checklist. 
• With a partner students will review the use of imagery in their poem.  Please follow this handout for questions. 

Symbolic Poetry:

• In order to generate ideas, students will use the Instant Poetry Muse.  Once students have generated an idea, relate the created line to something symbolic. 
• Remember, symbols can be:

  • words

  • actions

  • settings

  • characters

  • situations

• Use magnetic poetry kit to experiment with different ideas for poems.  The poem should contain a symbolic reference.  It can be one line, one word or the whole poem. (Remember a symbolic poem should symbolize something to your readers.)
• Work on your poem in class, using either Magnetic Poetry or paper and pen. 

• Students should generate two poems by the end of class. Remember: poems are like stories, they are best when they are revised! 

Assignment:

• Students will revise both poems for homework. 
• Poems will be saved for individual's creative writing portfolio- which will be graded at the end of each quarter. 

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