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Writing Workshop 8 (continued)
ACTIVITY 3
Writing a Poem with Peers
WRITING PROMPT: Work with a partner or small group to write a sonnet (or another lyric poem with a specific structured rhyme scheme.) Be sure to include: • Imagery: descriptive and figurative language (for example: metaphor, simile,
sensory detail, imagery)
• Sound techniques (for example: rhyme, alliteration, parallel structure,
enjambment)
• Poetic elements (for example: quatrains, couplets, rhyme scheme, meter)
Refer to the Scoring Guide for this writing task to help you understand where to focus your attention and efforts.
Prewriting/Drafting
1. With your partner or small group, revisit your class brainstorming and add ideas to your list. Choose a subject and tone that is different from your class-constructed poem.
2. Work with your partner or group 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 are choosing another structure, what will it be?) What will be our rhyme scheme and meter?
Use of Language: How will we use imagery (descriptive and figurative language), and sound techniques to convey tone and theme? How can we include purposeful and consistent use of punctuation and capitalization?
3. Free write to generate ideas or lines to contribute to the poem.
4. Working with your partner or group, create a draft by selecting and rearranging lines from each of your free writes. Make a copy of the draft on a separate page.
Peer Review
5. You will evaluate and provide feedback for another group’s poem, based on criteria from the Scoring Guide. Another group will review the work your group has done. Use the Revision Checklist on the following page to guide your peer review.
8 SpringBoard® Writing Workshop with Grammar Activities Grade 8
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