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Writing Workshop 8 (continued)
6 SpringBoard® Writing Workshop with Grammar Activities Grade 8
2. As a class, brainstorm ideas for the class-constructed sonnet or lyric poem, and create a list of possible subjects.
3. Work with your class to make a plan for your poem’s ideas, structure, and use of language by answering the following questions:
Ideas: What will be the subject of our poem? Who will be the speaker? What tone do we want to create? How and when will our tone shift?
Structure: How will we follow the structure of a sonnet? (If we choose another structure, what will it be?) How will we plan out the rhyme scheme and meter?
Use of Language: How will we include sound techniques, as well as imagery (descriptive and figurative language)?
Drafting
4. Free write to generate ideas, lines, quatrains, or couplets to contribute to the class poem.
5. Working with your teacher and classmates, create a draft by selecting and rearranging lines contributed by individual students. Make a copy of the draft on a separate page.
Check Your Understanding
After you have completed this process, read over the poem that your class has created. Refer to the Scoring Guide to help determine how well the poem meets the criteria for this assignment. Next, consider the following:
• What is the subject and theme of our class poem? What should be the title? • Who is the speaker, and what is the speaker’s tone? Does it shift? How?
• What is the structure of our poem? How did we use poetic elements such as
quatrains, couplets, rhyme scheme, and meter to create this structure? • Did we use consistent and purposeful punctuation and capitalization? • How did we use imagery (descriptive and figurative language) to
communicate ideas and tone?
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