Great work reading our Edgar Allen Poe, Edward Lear, William Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson and Robert Frost in class! We began working on your Shel Silverstein Poetry Workshop notebook in class - please complete the following pages:
1. Complete page 2 Rhyming Poetry - be sure to come up with as many rhymes as you can for the 5 words (there will be a mini prize for the most qualifying rhymes).
2. Skip to page 5 and work on Concrete Poetry. (We looked at this one in class.) Write at least one Concrete Poem. You can use the bottom of the page or your own paper.
3. Read page 6, List Poetry. Write your own list poem.
4. On page 8, Non-Rhyming Poetry. Read the directions carefully and write your own non rhyming poem by filling in the blanks at the bottom of the list.
5. Read this poem below, 3 times. First read it to yourself. Then read aloud. Finally underline any words or phrases you think are important. Write one or two sentences about what you think Robert Frost is saying in this poem.
Nothing Gold Can Stay by Robert Frost
Nature’s first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold,
Her early leaf’s a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
