Poetry
Have students create poetry corresponding to the North Dakota Studies unit they are studying:
- Couplets (two-line stanza that rhymes).
- Triplets (three-line poems).
A triplet may be written in the shape of a triangle and can be read by starting at any corner.
- Patterns include ABB (two of the lines rhyme)
- AAA (all three lines rhyme)
- ABC (no lines rhyme)
- Haiku
- Line 1—five syllables
- Line 2—seven syllables
- Line 3—five syllables
- Cinquain
- Line 1—one word (title)
- Line 2—two words (describe the title)
- Line 3—three words (describe an action)
- Line 4—four words (describe a feeling)
- Line 5—one word (refer back to the title)
- Diamanté (Diamond)
- Line 1—one noun (subject #1)
- Line 2—two adjectives (describing subject #1)
- Line 3—three participles (ending in –ing, telling about subject)
- Line 4—four nouns (first two related to subject #1, second two related to subject #2)
- Line 5—three participles (about subject #2)
- Line 6—two adjectives (describing subject #2)
- Line 7—one noun (subject #2)
- ABC Poetry (Start with A and go through the alphabet writing a word for each letter. You may make several sentences, but the information should be about North Dakota.)
- Acrostic Poems (The first letters of the line spell out a word that has something to do with the poem.)
- Lanterns (Japanese poem that is written in the shape of a Japanese lantern).
- Line 1—one syllable
- Line 2—two syllables
- Line 3—three syllables
- Line 4—four syllables
- Line 5—one syllable
