Pirate Poetry WebQuest

Instructions for Growing Poetry by Tony Mitton

Shut your eyes. Open your mind.
Look inside. What do you find?
Something funny? Something sad?
Something beautiful, mysterious, mad?

Open your ears. Listen well.
A word or phrase begins to swell?
Catch its rhythm. Hold its sound.
Gently, slowly roll it round.

Does it please you? Does it tease you?
Does it ask to grow and spread?
Now those little words are sprouting poetry
inside your head.

Process for Task 1: Design a Cover/ Table of Contents 

   On your own 

1. Open a new Google Doc, create a cover page for your Poetry Portfolio.
2. Include a title e.g 4th Grade Poetry Porfolio 
3. Include your name and date 
4. Insert s Google image that represents poetry or something about you.
5. On page 2 of your Google Doc create a Table of Contents
6. Title the page Table of Contents
7. Include: 

   Section 1: Poetry Glossary

   Section 2: Types of Poetry

   Section 3: My Own poetry

   Section 4: Greeting Card

4. Print the pages  (KEEP ALL PRINTED PAPER IN YELLOW FOLDER)(You may share any document with me to print in color) 

Process for Task 2: Glossary 

With your partner

You will create a gloassary. You may work with a partner on Part 1. You will create a share document in Google Docs. You and your partner will decide what words each of you will look up. 

1. Both partners should learn what a glossary is by visiting this link.
2. Copy the words below into a Google Doc
3. Title the document Poetic Elements

• imagery
• stanza
• metaphor
• onomatopoeia
• personification
• simile
• alliteration 
• hyperbole
• rhyme scheme
• assonance
• meter
• repetition

4. The researcher should use the following web links to learn what each word means. Both partners then work together to write a definition that a fourth grader would understand. Type this definition into the Google Doc

Slide Share
Kathi Mitchell
Susan Lucas
Shel Silverstein

5. Print the glossary you have created with your partner. Both partners need to put a copy in your poetry portfolio.

Process for Task 3: Examples

1. This is to be done on your own 
2. In a new Google Doc, you will need to define and give examples of the following types of poems          Rhymed, free verse, cinquains and haikus
3. Use the following links to look for examples of different kinds of poetry. Read through several poems on each site. Look for poems about different subjects.  Look for rhymed poems and free verse poems. Look for good examples of cinquains and haikus. Take your time!
   • Poetry 4 Kids
   • Giggle Poetry
   • Graham Lester
   • Just Poems
   • Fizzy Funny Fuzzy
   • ABC Teaches Haiku Poems
   • Jeff's Poems for Kids
4. Choose one rhymed poem, one free verse poem, one cinquain, and one haiku to submit to your poetry portfolio.

5.  Copy each one (one rhymed poem, one free verse poem, one cinquain, and one haiku)  and paste it onto a blank Google Doc. There should be one poem per page.

6. Above each poem, indicate which type of poem it is. Also define the type of poem.

7. Reread each poem and find examples of the poetic elements (refer to the poetry terms) . List any examples that are present at the end of the poem. (e.g. imagery, rhyme, similes)

8.  Insert a Google image for each poem. You may also change text and font color to make things lively and exciting.

9. Print your poem examples and put them in your Poetry Portfolio. (You may share any document with me to print in color) 

Process for Task 4: Write Your Own

One your own 

Now for you to become a Pirate Poet!

1. Click the poetry engine link to help you write your own limerick.
2. In a new Google Doc, Write either a cinquain or a haiku using help from one of the links below. This must be written in  your own words

3. Writing a cinquain

   • Cinquain help
   • Read-Write-Think Cinquains

   Writing a haiku

   • Haiku 4 Kids
   • Read-Write-Think Haikus

   * Once you have written your poem. Print and place in your Poetry Portfolio. 

4. Write one other original poem in any style. Illustrate this poem using whatever medium you think would work best - watercolors, colored pencils, crayon, or collage.. If you would like to insert clip art instead of drawing you may
5. PRINT your poem and place in Poetry Portfolio. (OR  you can share it with me)

Part 5:Create a Card

Before completing this final task please see me, Mrs. Conn. To be completed witha partner

Final Product; 

1. You and a partner will research different Greeting cards.
2. Choose a holiday or special  greeting card you would like to create. You can use the link below.

   http://shop.hallmark.com/cards/greeting-cards/?varies&mc=T_S_Y_CON_020116_ED_NA_GRT_

3.  You and your partner need to create a poem for the holiday or special occassion of your choice. You can choose any type of poem you have studied during WebQuest. You must also include poetry elements of your choice e.g imagery, rhyme, similies 
4. Open a blank Goolgle doc to share with your partner to create the poem.
5. Once you have created the poem you will need to add graphics to it. Make sure the graphics and images match the holiday or occassion you chose. (Share your card with me so I can print it in color) 
6. After the card is created, you and your partner will do a commercial about your card. Use the following links to see examples of commercials.                              
7.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3hj5OrZc14                       
8.     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0dchyUi1GU
9. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v61wTya_GJY&ebc=ANyPxKoBdIb4wVtPtWoT1yW5eoNlM8Nf9VLSWOexGs9asHtgXWT_aPz0v7SY1iplnRlPpFR1Qk-02hXGysCbI7TWUW-vavnwXA
10. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INRn-vFh58o
11. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4wqIjKp604&ebc=ANyPxKpizSBLnV81cGtL9MCR_ePgmGjCzp6OEdisfN4gz9bUArjXMi0Z5TmUxgwMUm2NRsLGzNeGg9IqD_lo98PsiNYyEoGmKw