week 1 online 18

1. WEEK ONE:
THE ONLINE HOUR

2. AGENDA
Terms
The Color Poem
Writing blank verse

3. Terms
6-10

4. 6. Blank verse
A line of poetry or prose in unrhymed iambic pentameter.
Shakespeare's sonnets, Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost, and
Robert Frost's meditative poems such as "Birches" include
many lines of blank verse. Here are the opening blank verse
lines of "Birches": When I see birches bend to left and right /
Across the lines of straighter darker trees, / I like to think
some boy's been swinging them.
7. Meter
The measured pattern of rhythmic accents in poems. An iamb is
an example of meter.

5. 8. Iamb
An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one, as in De-TROIT.
• Anapest
Two unaccented syllables followed by an accented one, as in com-
pre-HEND or in-ter-VENE. An anapestic meter rises to the accented
beat as in Byron's lines from "The Destruction of Sennacherib": "And
the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, / When the blue
wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee."
• Dactyl
A stressed syllable followed by two unstressed ones, as in FLUT-ter-
ing or BLUE-ber-ry.
• Pyrrhic
A metrical foot with two unstressed syllables ("of the").
• Spondee
A metrical foot represented by two stressed syllables, such as KNICK-
KNACK.
• Trochee
An accented syllable followed by an unaccented one, as in BOS-ton.

6. 9. Metaphor
A comparison between essentially unlike things without an
explicitly comparative word such as like or as. An example
is "My love is a red, red rose.”
10. Simile
A figure of speech involving a comparison between unlike
things using like, as, or as though. An example: "My love is
like a red, red rose."

7. Guided Writing: Review
Hearing Colors: A
poem in blank verse

8. REVIEW: Pick a color to write about.
Then, assign qualities to your color. I know this is a stretch, but try to
imagine the color with your other senses.
These qualities will help you connect your color to abstract ideas and events
and describe it through alternative mediums.
 Soft or hard
 Wet or dry
 Big or little
 Loud or quiet
 Natural or man-made
 Smooth or textured
 Happy or sad
 Hot or cold
 Dense or porous
 Spring fall summer or winter
 Thick or thin
 Slippery or sticky
 Inside or outside
 Funny or serious
 Old or new
 Cheap or expensive
 Plain or ornate
 Common or uncommon
 Casual or formal
 Energetic or relaxed
 Realistic or fantastic
 Strong or frail

9. Questions to consider in writing: Verse One
If your color were music, what kind
would it be?
Who would play it and where would you
hear it?
Which song would it be?
Why or how does this music reflect your
color?

10.  The color red is the shameless, sexy
 Salsa rhythm of racy Cubanos
 And Puertorriqueños; fast Timba—drum
 Beats: passionate, hungry, fervent, alive.

11. Verse Two
If your color were dance it would be which?
Who would dance it and where would you see
it done?
Describe the movements of the dance.
Why is this dance like your color?

12. Ok! Here are your new verses!

13. Verse Three: New Verse!
If your color were a smell, it would be
which?
Where would you smell it?
What does it remind you of?
How is this smell like your color?

14. Verse Four
If your color were a food it would be which?
Where and when would you eat it?
How does it taste?
How does it remind you of your color?

15. Verse Five
If your color were an event it would be
which?
Specific example
When do you go there?
How is your color like your event?

16. Verse Six
If your color were a place it would be what or
where?
Describe it.
When do you (or other people) go there?
How is your color like your place?

17. Verse Seven
If your color were a person, who would it be?
Where would you see this person?
Describe this person.
How is your color like the person?

18. Verse Eight
If your color were an animal, which would it
be?
Where would you see this animal
Describe the animal
How is your color like the animal

19. Verse Nine
If your color were a game,
what kind would it be?
Which one in particular?
Who would play it?
Describe the game.

20. Verse Ten
If your color were a book, what kind would it
be?
Which one in particular?
Who would read it?
Describe the theme, plot, mood, or purpose.

21. Ending
Finish the poem with one
or two more lines!

22. Blank Verse: Conventions
Once you finish writing your poem, put it into blank verse.
This means each line will have ten syllables (five iambic feet).
It should not rhyme!

23. Consider other conventions
 Simile:
A figure of speech in which things are compared using the
words “like” or “as”
 Metaphor
A figure of speech in which things are compared by stating
that one thing is another
 Alliteration
Repetition of words with the same beginning sounds

24. Onomatopoeia
Words that sound like the objects or
actions they refer to
Assonance:
Identity or similarity in sound between
internal vowels in neighboring words.
example: hot dog

25. Remember
 Once you have completed your verses, you can eliminate one or two or
even three if they are not working in your poem.
 You can add other verses that help you describe your color.
 This guided writing is set up as quatrains (four lines per verse), but you
can change that if you would like.

26. Homework
Reading: Sonnets
Post #2 Blank Verse:
Color Poem
Study Terms 1-10