Literarcy+-February+24,+2012

__Movie__ [|Nightly News about Meditation]

__Poetry - Types__ **__Project__** - With a partner you are to teach the rest of the group the terms you were assigned. This includes having examples of the poems and working out a methodology to ensure your classmates understand what the terms mean. You may use any method you feel will help your classmates learn. Each of the terms are Hyperlinked to a Bing Search Page to use with your projects. Remember to have at least one poem that represents your term and you can use movies, clips, etc. to reinforce the meaning of your poetry type.

[|Ballad]- a type of poem that is meant to be sung and is both lyric and narrative in nature

 [|Example] [|Canto]- The main section of a long poem [|Example] [|Elegy]- A poem that is a mournful lament for the dead. Examples: William Shakespeare's Elegy, Robert Louis Stevenson's "Requiem" and Alfred Lord Tennyson's In Memoriam  [| Example] [|Epic]- a long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds [|Example]

[|Haiku] - a Japanese poem form that is composed of 3 lines of 5,7,5 (consonants) [|Example] [|Limerick] - a humorous verse form of 5 anapestic lines with a rhyme scheme aabba [|Example] [|Lyric] - is a short poem which expresses a powerful emotion or sentiment. [|Example] Example from class: Daddy Day in the Park Playing on a swing is my thing My Daddy's here therefore I have no fear of all the strangers and different sounds his love for me has no bounds [|Sonnet]- Fourteen-line lyric poem that is usually written in iambic pentameter and that has one of several rhyme schemes. [|Example]

[|Stanza]- A division of poetry named for the number of lines it contains [|Example]

__[|Praxis Test Days and Time]__