4.2 Reading Project

Choices!

Project Explanation

You have drafted, revised, and edited six poems in your Learning Guide:

• Poetry Writing Task One: A Free Verse Poem
• Poetry Writing Task Two: Simile and Metaphor Poem
• Poetry Writing Task Three: Alliteration, Onomatopoeia, and Personification
• Poetry Writing Task Four: Limerick
• Poetry Writing Task Six: Quatrain

Now, you will publish them. There are many ways you can publish them - suggestions are on the previous page in this online book.

Your published work needs to include:

• A Cover/Title Page or Screen:
  • Think of a name for your poetry "book" (or slide show or document or movie or ???).
  • Use nice lettering, neat spacing, and colour.

• Each Poem Includes::
  
  • Title
  • Neat and thoughtful presentation
  • Drawing/picture/image (can be found online, cut out from a magazine, hand drawn, your own photography or digital art)

Optional:You may choose to include any of the following (or ideas of your own):

• About the Author - can be at the beginning or end of your published work.
• Dedication - usually at the beginning.
  
• A blurb on the back cover (if completing by hand) or an "Introduction" if completing digitally.
• Another poem you were inspired to write.

Assessment - Meaning and Style

The first assessment category is meaning and style.

Meaning/Style (Voice, Ideas, Detail, Clarity, Variety/Complexity/Impact of Language)

In other words:

• shows originality

• has a strong “voice”

• develops some ideas or images in creative or unusual ways

• uses detail / language effectively to create strong descriptions

• shows a clear sense of audience

• engages the reader and creates an emotional impact (e.g., humour, surprise, strong message)

Assessment - Form

The second assessment category is form.Your teacher is looking for:

• the rules of the chosen poetry forms are followed

• strong imagery / use of literary devices (as appropriate to poetry form) is used throughout poems

Assessment - CUPS

The third assessment category is conventions. What does this category involve?

CUPS

• Capitals
• Usage (grammar)
• šPunctuation (where applicable)
• šSpelling

Assessment - Presentation

In addition to your poems, you can earn marks for the following:

Title Page / Screen - title, author (that's you), nice lettering, neat spacing, and colour

Poem Presentations Overall - neat titles, images that relate to poems, neat printing/writing, effort, and care

Extras - About the author, dedication, table of contents (if completed in a document or on paper), another poem you were inspired to write, or ideas of your own.