Spring Long-Term Project

Poetry Anthology

Due Date:     Tuesday, May 10th

ASSIGNMENT DESCRIPTION:

Put together a collection of 10 poems representing a theme that has been approved by your teacher. The individual poems that you choose will be organized into a book. With each poem, you must provide a picture or image that illustrates what you feel is the most important aspect in the poem, remembering that the theme you have chosen must be identifiable in each poem. Along with the picture, each poem must be accompanied by a paragraph (of 5 to 10 sentences) giving your personal response to the poem. Your response should indicate a personal connection to the poem while at the same time identifying the thematic issue in the poem. Choose your poems carefully, considering that your response to them must be intelligent and thoughtful.

Your anthology book must contain the following:

1. Cover page, with a title for anthology, a picture, your name, period and the due date
2. Table of contents, this lists the poems in order with page numbers.
3. The poems, each with their corresponding pictures and personal responses.
4. The “Final Grade” page must be attached when you submit your project.

Guidelines in the Selection of Poems:

1. Each poem should be approximately 10 to 20 lines long. If you want to include haiku, limericks, or another short poetry form, two of this kind of poem equal one entry. Include a response to each of these shorter poems.
2. No more than one set of short poems may be used.
3. You may use the lyrics of one popular song.
4. You may use two poems written by yourself or by friends.

Presentation:

1. Each poem must be neatly presented. It may be handwritten, typed or photocopied.
2. Try to place illustrations next to the poems. You may put them on the same page, beside the poem, or you may wish to embed the poem in the picture.
3. Neatness counts. Glue is preferable to tape or staples.
4. The pictures you use to illustrate the anthology may be hand drawn, or from magazines or the computer. Personal photographs are also acceptable; these will be treated with care.
5. Aim for dramatic effect. Color can be quite effectively used on your cover, on your poetry pages themselves, and in the accompanying pictures.

The Personal Response:

This part of the project is worth half the grade. Explain why you chose each of the ten poems by making a connection between the poem and your own experience. Consider things you have done, and other material that you have read, heard or seen. The following is a list of suggestions to help you get started on your responses.

1. In this poem, I wondered what was meant by…….
2. I really liked this poem’s idea because……
3. The mood of the poem reminded me of….
4. The description of _________ in this poem made me think of………
5. This poem reminded me of ____________ because……
6. I once had an experience like the one described in this poem, in which…….
7. The setting of this poem is important because……..
8. When I read this poem, I imagined…………