This poetry project requires you to hunt for children’s poetry and plan a small collection that you think would be important to children. You should use a variety of types of poems and of poets. These should be poems written and published by professional poets. You can find them in anthologies of poetry both online or in book form at your local library or the school library. You should consider a theme for your poems–how do they hang together? You will analyze each poem, giving no less than a full page of consideration to each poem (this is not including the poem itself, which you should paste into the paper as well.
1. Think about a theme you would like to use. You will seek poems that fall under this theme. Some ideas might be things like: Native American Children’s Poems, Poems about Divorce for Children, Make me Hungry, Poems for Kids about Food, Immigration Poems for Children.
2. Seek out your poems–I suggest the library, though there are also good online sources. Remember we have Maria, our embedded course librarian, and she can assist you in locating poems. You can find her discussion in our discussion board and contact her there.
*Be sure your poems are written by published poets. You want literary poems.
3. Look at a lot of poems in order to choose those that will best fit into your collection. Don’t just grab the first ones you see.
4. Select at least five poems from what you’ve looked at for your collection.
5. Take notes or annotate those poems, underlining interesting images, sounds, forms, meanings using our PowerPoint of terms to guide you.
6. Think about the order you would place your poems in and why. You are showcasing these poems and they may flow better in a certain order. Let your gut and your mind for organization lead you.
7. Write a paper that does the following:
—Includes an introduction with a thesis that describes the theme of your collection, why that theme matters in Children’s Literature, and how you chose your poems as well as what you hope to accomplish by arranging them in a collection. You may use the first person in this section if you like. (I). This introduction should be more than half a page and up to a page and a half.
–analyzes each poem separately by applying several poetic terminology elements to each poem–the ones that are most relevant to that poem– and discusses what the it appears poet is trying to get across with the poetry and how it affects the reader. You should have a page of analysis for each poem (not including the poem itself, which you should also include on the following page so I can see what you are pointing out).
–Conclude by summing up how these poems work together and making a statement of importance possibly accompanied by how you would introduce these poems to an individual child or in a group/classroom setting. Think about how children might respond to these poems and how you might guide them. Your conclusion should be meaty. More than half a page and up to a page and a half.
–Include an MLA works cited page that lists all of your poems
Due Sunday at End of Week 7
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