📝 Part 1: Planning Your Poem

1. Choose your poem type (tick one):

Acrostic poem

Haiku (5-7-5 syllables)

Free verse poem

Rhyming poem

2. What topic will your poem be about?

3. Brainstorm vivid words and images for your topic:

4. Which figurative language will you use? (tick at least two):

Simile (comparing using 'like' or 'as')

Metaphor (saying something IS something else)

Personification (giving human qualities to objects)

Alliteration (repeated starting sounds)

✍️ Part 2: Write Your Poem

5. Draft your poem here. Remember to use figurative language and vivid imagery:

6. Circle the figurative language you used in your poem above.

7. What feeling or idea does your poem express?

8. Read your poem aloud. Which line could you make more vivid?

9. Rewrite that line with better word choice or imagery:

10. Rate your poem (tick one):

I used figurative language well and my images are vivid

I used some figurative language and good word choice

I need to add more figurative language and better words

Homework: Write another poem at home using a different poetic form. Use at least two types of figurative language. Bring it to share next lesson!