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6. Consider the emotions that you associate with looking at the stars at night. Write your own simile comparing that to another experience that fills you with similar emotions.
Possible response: It is like looking at the lights of a city when I am flying over it in an airplane.
7. Work with your class to generate similes that would fit with your poem’s subject and tone.
8. The phrase “Tossing their heads in sprightly dance” is an example of personification because the daffodils are given the human ability to toss their heads and dance. Visualize the image described by this personification. What emotions do you associate with this image?
Possible response: I visualize a field of animated flowers dancing and smiling. I feel amused and silly.
9. Work with your class to generate personification that would fit with your poem’s subject and tone.
10. Rewrite at least one sentence from the class poem to add a simile or personification, and then share your proposed revision with the class.
Editing
11. After presenting your revisions to the class and hearing the suggested revisions of others, it’s time to polish the final draft of the poem by editing for mistakes. In addition to checking that you have consistent and purposeful capitalization and punctuation, read the poem out loud to a partner to make sure the lines make sense.
ACTIVITY 3
Writing a Poem with Peers
WRITING PROMPT: Work with a partner or small group to write a lyric poem. Be sure to include:
• Imagery: descriptive and figurative language (for example: simile,
personification, connotative diction, sensory detail)
• Poetic techniques (for example: rhyme, alliteration, assonance, enjambment) • Poetic elements (for example: stanzas, lines, rhyme scheme, meter)
Refer to the Scoring Guide for this writing task to help you understand where to focus your attention and efforts.
Writing Workshop 8 • Poetry 9
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