Poetry Unit Life Book Project

Life Book Project

This project will help you reflect on who you are as an individual.
Through this project, you will examine events from your past and consider
how they have developed you into the strong lion you are today. Every poem
you add to this project will discuss an event or emotion from your past and
give the reader an insight into that time period in your life. Each poem, or
chapter as they will be called, must be written using the type of poem or
poetic vocabulary we learned that week in class. Each week you will have at
least one chapter to write and you can reference your notes on how to utilize
that poetic element properly. Your life book must have a title and a colorful
cover page. It must all be typed or neatly written.

Your Life Book will be due January 10th, 2011.

You will present chapters of your Life Book on January 10th and January
11th, 2011.

Below are the directions on completing each chapter of your Life Book.

Life Book Chapter 1

Write the first chapter of your life book focusing on careful decision making
with word choice. You can put the words anywhere on the page and in any
direction that you want. Your poem must contain at least 25 words.
Remember, you need to tell a story (as a poem) about a particular time in
your life.

Life Book Chapter 2

Now write the second chapter of your book as a poem in stanzas. You must
have at least three stanzas that are at least three lines long each (a total of
at least 9 lines).

Life Book Chapter 3

Poetry Unit Life Book Project

Start by making lists of words that rhyme to get your brain warmed up. Once
you’ve established a thinking flow, write a rhyming poem about one event in
your life. Play with sound! Use different types of rhyme throughout your
poem. Your poem must be at least 10 lines and you must have four pairs of
rhymes that you have underlined.

Life Book Chapter 4

Write a 10 line poem about a very sad OR very happy event during a time in
your life. You MUST follow these rules: 1) Your poem must have 10 lines. 2)
The poem must have 4 lines with alliteration. 3) The poem must have at
least one word that is repeated three or more times.

Life Book Chapter 5

Write a 20-lined poem in the structure of a letter to someone who has made
you feel a strong emotion (love, hate, anger, thrilled, overjoyed, shocked)
during your lifetime. Start with “Dear…” (this line doesn’t count as one of the
20 lines) and tell them exactly how you feel. Use diction, capitalization and
punctuation to convey a specific tone. List the tone you wish to convey here:
____________.

Life Book Chapter 6

Write a 4 stanza poem using dialogue to describe an important event in your
life. You don’t have to remember the conversation word for word. The
conversation may be between you and another person or between you and
your own mind.

Life Book Chapter 7

Write a short 7 line poem about an important person in your life. Describe
that person and their importance by using at least two metaphors. Underline
the metaphors that you use to describe this person in your poem.

Life Book Chapter 8

Poetry Unit Life Book Project

Write a poem at least 7 lines long about the same person from Chapter 7,
only this time use at least two similes to describe this person. Underline
these two similes in your poem.

Life Book Chapter 9

Use hyperbole to write a poem of at least 7 lines about an important setting
in your life. This can be about a time or place, or a situation or circumstance.
Use at least two hyperbolic words/phrases and underline them.

Life Book Chapter 10

Write a 10 line poem personifying an object that is important to you in your
life. You can write the name of the object in your poem however it is your job
to give this object at least three human characteristics.

Life Book Chapter 11

Pick either an object (like a red wheelbarrow) or an activity (like playing in
the snow) that was important to you in your past. Write a descriptive poem
using onomatopoeia that is at least 7 lines long. Underline where you use
onomatopoeia at least 3 times in this poem.

Life Book Due Date: January 10th, 2011

Life Book Presentations: January 10th and
11th, 2011
Poetry Unit Life Book Project

Life Books will NOT be collected for

credit after
January 10th, 2011!