6th Grade Poetry Project - Anthology

6th Grade Personal Anthology
For this poetry project, you will be required to create a handful of different types of poems and put them together in your very own anthology. Included in this anthology will be your found poems and your imagery poem. (You will need to reprint them.)

1. Phone Number Poem
  1. Pick a phone number (including area code) that has significance for you and write it down.
  2. Use the number for your title.
  3. Your poem will have as many lines as your phone number has numbers.
  4. Each line will have the number of syllables as the number it corresponds with.
  5. For example, if you use 426-321-7523, the first line will have four syllables, the second line will have two, the third will have six, and so on.
  6. The contents of the poem should relate to the phone number you chose.
  7. Make sure you name the person whose number you are using in the poem.
  8. Use repetition in this poem.
2. It’s Not Fair
  1. The title of the poem is "It's Not Fair!”
  2. Write about anything that you feel is unfair.
  3. This poem does not need to rhyme.
  4. It must be at least 20 lines long and contain alliteration and enjambment.
3. Art Poem
  1. Find a work of art that you admire or find interesting. You are not limited to paintings.
  2. You will be in the library looking through art books.
  3. Make a color copy of the artwork to be included in your anthology.
  4. Include the artist and the name of the art on the page - don’t have to be in the poem.
  5. Write a poem about this piece of art.
  6. Include imagery in your poem.
  7. Include a metaphor or a simile in your poem.
4. Couplets
  1. Write a poem that is made up of at least ten rhyming couplets. Try to be original with your rhymes. Sometimes it helps to try a rhyming site like RhymeZone.





5. Symbol Poem (Connotation and Denotation)
  1. A symbol is anything that stands for something else – a word, place, character, or object that means something beyond what it is on a literal level. Consider a stop sign. More than a red octogon, it symbolizes the need to stop.
  2. Come up with a symbol. Use the list below for inspiration - you may choose one of these or come up with another.
  3. Write a poem about it - not just what it is on a literal level, but what it represents.
  • The rose and the moon symbolize love: "Love is a rose and you'd better not pick it; it only grows when it's on the vine."
  • Mars symbolizes aggression and war, while Venus symbolizes love: "Men are from Mars; women are from Venus."
  • The four seasons symbolize the stages of life: spring (birth-adolescence), summer (adolescence-adulthood), fall (adulthood-mature adulthood), winter (late adulthood-death).
  • A ring, especially a band of gold, represents faithfulness and fidelity: "With this ring, I thee wed."
  • The dove symbolizes peace, as do the olive and the lamb: "How many seas must a white dove sail, before she sleeps in the sand?"
  • Iron and steel are symbolic of strength and invulnerability: Superman is the iconic "Man of Steel."
  • The color green suggests life, especially things that are newly or recently born and growing: "a green youth."
  • The color purple represents royalty and privilege: "Prince Charles was born to the purple."
  • The color black symbolizes evil and/or death: "The four horsemen of the Apocalypse ride black steeds."
  • The color white symbolizes innocence and purity: in Medieval art, a white lamb symbolized the innocence and purity of Jesus Christ.

My Heart Leaps Up When I Behold
by William Wordsworth
My heart leaps up when I behold
  A rainbow in the sky ...
The rainbow is a magical symbol of hope; we speak hopefully of the "pot of gold at the end of the rainbow." Thus, the sight of a rainbow makes the heart "leap" and the heart leaping is also a metaphor for hope.


6. Pantoum that contains personification, assonance or consonnance
A pantoum is a poetry form from Malaysia.  It began as an oral folk form.  The stanzas are quatrains (4 lines), but there is no limit to the number of stanzas per poem.  There is a repeating formula for the pantoum.   Concluding a pantoum is up to you.  It can be closed, which means it ends with lines 3 and 1 of the poem’s first stanza and lines 2 and 4 of the last stanza.  Otherwise, the poem can be open-ended with no return to the first stanza.
1_________________________________________________________________________
2_________________________________________________________________________
3_________________________________________________________________________
4_________________________________________________________________________
5 - same as 2________________________________________________________________
6_________________________________________________________________________
7- same as 4________________________________________________________________
8 _________________________________________________________________________
9  - same as 6 _______________________________________________________________
10________________________________________________________________________
11 - same as 8 _________________________________________________________________
12________________________________________________________________________
13 - same as 10______________________________________________________________
14________________________________________________________________________
15 -same as 12 _____________________________________________________________
16________________________________________________________________________
7. Memory poem
  1. Start with a photo - you may be in it, or perhaps you were the photographer. Place the photo alongside the poem you write.
  2. Write about a memory you associate with that photo. The memory can be anything, as long as you remember it vividly and it has some importance to you.
  3. Now think of the memory. Fill out this graphic organizer with descriptive phrases or words.
I see




I smell




I touch




I taste




I hear





  1. Now combine the words and phrases from the five senses list to create a poem about the memory.
  2. Use enjambment.
8. Reflection - Answer the following questions:
  • Of which poem in this anthology are you are most proud and why?
  • Which poem was the most difficult one to write and why?
  • What are the differences difference between writing a story/essay and writing a poem?
  • Why is sound important in poetry?
9. Cover - create a collage that represents any one of the poems in your project - use magazines to create your collage. Get creative and have fun with this! Make sure you name is on it!
RUBRIC
All writing is typed, poems include thoughtful line breaks and punctuation, and no COPS.

_____/10 Cover
_____/6 2 found poems (already done - reprint)
_____/4 Imagery poem (already done - reprint)
_____/10 Phone number - repetition and syllabification
_____/10 It’s Not Fair! - minimum 20 lines, alliteration, enjambment
_____/10 Art - imagery, metaphor/simile, copy of art with artist’s name and title of the art
_____/10 Rhyming Couplets - minimum 20 lines
_____/10 Symbol
_____/20 Pantoum
_____/10 Memory - photo, imagery, enjambment
_____/20 Reflection
_____/120 Total Point Value
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