A New Poetry Path with the help of Mrs. Kneeland

We are switching gears mid-year from integrating theater arts into our Social Studies curriculum to making our Language Arts poetry unit come to life. So, in preparation for Mrs. Kneeland's arrival, students have been busy learning and creating a variety of poetic forms. They have written shape/concrete poems where the words take the shape of the topic of the poem. Students also focused on their five senses with a "winter" poem (what does winter look like, sound like, feel like, taste like, smell like). We also focused on writing If I Were, Would You Be poems. This type of poetry has students pairing nouns up and adding adjectives for extra details. We are currently finishing up our cinquain poems, where students are following a specific formula to complete their poem.
A cinquain is a five-line poem that describes a person, place, or thing. The first line is a one-word title, a noun. The second line is two adjectives. The third line is ending with-ing participles. The fourth line is a phrase. And, the fifth and final line is a  synonym for their title, another noun.

Winter Senses

If I Were, Would You Be...

Shape Poem