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 

 

 August Poem Choices

September Poem Choices

October Poem Choices

November Poem Choices

December Poem Choices

January Poem Choices

February Poem Choices

Follow the link below for some poetry fun:

Instant Poetry Forms