Poetry as Emotion: List Poems

AISB Elementary Library, 2012Sarah Ducharme

Grade 4

List Poems

• Look at each image.

• Write whatever words come to mind.

• Try to capture the EMOTION you see.

Words can become a POEM

• Look at your words and rearrange them.• What order do you like?• What words seem to go together on one line?• What words have best impact alone?• What lines seem to want a space between

them?• ASK, “What will my reader FEEL after reading

these words?”

Try Another…

• What worked? What didn’t?

• READY TO Try again?

Words become a POEM

• Look at your words and rearrange them.• What order do you like?• What words seem to go together on one line?• What words have best impact alone?• What lines seem to want a space between

them?• What do you want your reader to FEEL?

Two More…

• ON your own…

• REMEMBER: capture the feeling/emotion of the image not just what’s happening in the scene.

Choose Your Own Image

• Go to PicLit (on grade 4 tab of library website)• Choose a photo from the sliding gallery.• THINK about the image – brainstorm ideas.• Choose “Drag-n-Drop,” Add words, arrange and

rearrange until you like the effect.• Choose another photo.• Choose “Freestyle.”• Type your words into the box the way you want

them to appear.

To use this poem…

• SAVE your PicLits as you go. They will appear in “My PicLits”

• You may email ONE or TWO PicLits to Mrs Ducharme: sducharme@aisb.hu. You MUST include your NAME in the subject.

• These can be posted on your class blog later.• You cannot print your PicLit

Extension…

• IF you enjoyed writing this type of poem HOW could you take today’s lesson and continue at home?

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/supercereal/2824567979/.Nosha, . Beauty. 2009. Flickr. Web. 28 Mar. 2012.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nosha/3643964334/.Peat, Richard. "Fast" Bag Drop. 2006. Flickr. Web. 28 Mar. 2012.

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