Poetry Portfolio AssignmentYou will be completing a portfolio style summative assessment for this unit. Over the course of

the unit, you will write your OWN, ORIGINAL poems. This is your chance to use your imagination and show your creativity through poetry and writing! At the end of the unit, we will share these in a “Coffeehouse” setting. This will be worth a total of 275 points and will be due at the end of the unit.

Requirements: First Step is to log onto google docs in your classwork folder create a new Document.

o Title Your Document (Last Name, First Name Poetry Portfolio) Folder --Submit portfolio in online

15 points Typed--Portfolios MUST be typed in 12 point Arial or Times New Roman font, with the exception

of the cover page. NO “messy” portfolios will be accepted. You will have plenty of time to complete your portfolio, so that is plenty of time to track down a computer for typing. Portfolios that are not typed will receive a 15% point deduction.

Cover page—Make sure that you include a cover page which includes an interesting TITLE for your poetry portfolio, your name, your teacher’s name, class period, and date. Also, add some color or a picture to the title page in order to make it creative! 15 points

Table of Contents—You should have a table of contents that clearly state the title and type of poem and where it appears in your book/portfolio, so that there will be no confusion during the grading process. The page numbers must match up to the numbers provided in the Table of Contents.

15 points Grammar and Conventions—you need to proofread your writing carefully. Obviously there will

be some leniency toward punctuation, since poems aren’t sentences. But, you still must have writing free of errors in spelling, capitalization, etc. 50 points

Your OWN, ORIGINAL poems (Instructions are provided in this packet):1. Shout Out Poem—You must write ONE poem………………………...20 points2. Limerick—You must write one poems…………………………………………...10 points each3. Cinquain—You must write one poems…………………………………………...10 points each4. Personification—You must write ONE poem……………………………...........20 points5. Haiku—You must write TWO poems…………………………………………..........10 points each6. 5-Senses—You must write ONE poem………………………………………..……..10 points7. Alliteration—You must write ONE poem…………………………………..…......15 points8. Onomatopoeia—You must write ONE poem……………………………..……..15 points9. Hyperbole—You must write ONE poem…………………………………..………15 points

10. Shape- You Must Write One………………………………………………………….15 points

TOTAL: 235 points + 40 for presenting one poem in class

DUE DATE:____2/13/15__or 2/17/15____1/2 class each day____________________

NOTE: This project will lose 20% each day it’s late. Plagiarizing will result in a grade of ZERO!

How to Write Your Own Portfolio Poems

1. Shout Out Poem—a poem where you include details about where you come from. You have already written this poem. This poem will be the first in your portfolio. See the instructions that you have already received. (http://hellopoetry.com/words/434652/shout-out/poems/)

Example 1: SHOUT OUT

Here’s to the man in the subway station still playing his guitar. Here’s to the people who will never give up: cancer survivors, cast-aways, and the security guard on a never-ending shift at Winn Dixie. Here’s to the men and women fighting an unjust war. Here’s to YOU reading and listening to me right now. Give out to firemen, lawyers, and the little guy stocking shelves at 7-11. Here’s to education and to the hole it leaves in your parents’ pockets. Give out to air traffic controllers, mail people, and the Easter bunny. Here’s to looking forward, and never looking back. Here’s to “helping me help you” Here’s to building a brighter future with what little we have Give out to the hippies and the clowns and the person who isn’t ever heard. ~ Casey Hawkland

Example 2: IMMORTALITY This is a toast to youth and summer time the Rolling Stones with the windows rolled down to weather too hot for shoes, and cursing the broken A/C To mud on freshly washed Chucks, to exploration To Phillip explaining the ins and outs of bombs to the A-Day lunch crew, To the boy who wears his shorts in thirty-three degree weather, to cafeteria art! To laughing at the same old cheesy jokes To Brand New, the Beatles, Blink 182 and Sublime To the Art Walk in June and July and August To dancing with J-hop just because it’s fun To Le Ranger, and Lee, for writing down instructions for how to drive a standard so I would finally get it To angst, to Holden Caulfield, to idealists ~ Emily Touchet

Your Shout Out Poem- 1. Has to be at least 8 lines.2. It must shout out something important to you. Brainstorm your ides with positive and negative

signs so your shout out could be for either a positive or negative reason.