Poetry
Each month a poetry project is required. The goals of this assignment are:
**To memorize and recite a poem
**To master public speaking skills and build self confidence
**Appreciate poetry as a literary genre
How to Eat a Poem
Don't be polite.
Bite
in.
Pick
it up with your fingers and lick the juice that
may
run down your chin.
It
is ready and ripe now, whenever you are.
You
do not need a knife or fork or spoon
or
plate or napkin or tablecloth.
For
there is no core
or
stem
or
rind
or
pit
or
seed
or
skin
to
throw away.
by Eve Merriam
Monthly Poetry Assigment
There are 5 requirements for this project:
**Choose a poem to work with from the monthly choice list
**Copy the poem using your best penmanship
**Illustrate the poem (Remember detail and coloring)
**Memorize your poem
**Recite the poem to the class
Follow the link below for some poetry fun: