Thursday, December 22, 2011

Poetryoutloud

Visit http://www.poetryoutloud.org/.
Pick a poem to memorize over vacation.

We will begin working on a poetry unit when we return in january.
In your comments, list the name of your poem and why you chose it.

Have a happy holiday vacation!

20 comments:

  1. I will be reading "The Donkey" by G.K. Chesterton because the poem is rather short and its about a donkey so its pretty entertaining.

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  2. I chose the poem "Fire and Ice" by Robert Frost. I chose it because i liked the poem. It gave me the idea that people have always thought about the end of the world and that seemed interesting to me.

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  3. my poem is Catch a Little Rhyme by Eve Merriam. I picked this poem because it's short and i just really liked it.

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  4. I chose the poem "The Arrow and the Song" because I thought it was a nice poem and I like the way it flows and the message it has.

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  5. I'm doing Hope is the Thing with Feathers by Emily Dickenson. It was short and meaningful. I liked the idea of it.

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  6. I will read The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost because we briefly looked over it last year, and I always liked the meaning to it.

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  7. I'll do Keeping Things Whole by Mark Strand because it is short, simple, and I liked the meaning of it.

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  9. I choose "Eating Poetry" by Mark Strand, because it is very interesting and different from the others that I've read.

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  10. I chose "Cool Tombs" by Carl Sandburg because it was relatively short and it mentioned famous people in it so I thought that was interesting.

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  12. The poem I chose was the "The Cities Inside Us" by Alberto Rios. I chose it because it is segmented so it will probably be easy to memorize, and the overall concept of the poem is interesting.

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  13. Great poems, good reasons--anyone else?

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  14. The poem I chose to read is "Dirge in the Woods" I enjoyed the meaning of the poem and like that it had to do with nature and the environment around us.

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  15. i choose the poem Across the Bay by Donald Davie because i liked the meaning of the poem and how it sounded when it was read.

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  16. I chose "Dreamers" by Siegfried Sassoon. This poem about soldiers interested me because of the topic and it is short and simple.

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  17. I am going to read "The Daring One", by Edwin Markham. I chose this poem because I like the way the poem flows and I like the idea of being daring.

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  18. I chose "Catch a Little Rhyme" by Eve Marriam because it is short and it flows and rhymes.

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  19. I am going to memorize the poem "Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening" by Robert Frost.

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  20. I chose the poem "Caged Bird" by Maya Angelou. I chose this poem because we read it last year and I really liked it. Also, there is slant rhyme which helps me remember it easily.

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