We're going super, super simple today with acrostics. You've been doing them all your life, but I want you to step it up a couple notches with your writing; it SHOULD NOT sound like a 3rd grader wrote these.
Examples:
Edgar Allan Poe
Eerie stories and poems
Decorate our imagination. Both
Good and evil
Are challanged along with
Reality.
Also,
Love and insanity
Lurk through the pages and
Anthologies. You will
Never know what is to happen next.
Problems of murder and mystery,
Oddities and wonderment are
Expressed with such peculiarity only he could achieve.
- - - - - Christina M.
Staring down at us
Through the night
Always there
Right up in the sky
Like a heavenly light burning
Inside you
Guiding you
Home when all
The other ways fail.
- - - - - Bridgette K.
Sleep
Simple Solitude
Lost in this chaotic world
Every second spent a longing for my
Evening; to get a dose of
Peace; at last
--------P.k.
Assignment Details:
1. Two acrostics: one with your name (I don't care if you do first or last name) and another that reveals something that is important to you.
2. Do a rough draft
3. Have a couple people look at it--make some suggestions to your rough draft: improve your word choice, add a simile etc.
4. Post the final copies to your blog with the heading: Poetry Acrostics
5. Final copies should be posted to your blog by the end of the day TODAY.
6. Remember--TRY. I know poetry isn't a favorite sometimes, but you must put forth effort.
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