This week will be an interesting homework assignment.  We looked at styles from Guy Wetore Caryl  or James Finn Garner.  You need to rewrite one of the three fables on page 47 using either style:  Story with satire, political correctness, or poem.  We looked some poems up in class.  Here are 4 you can choose from if you decide to use poems:

• ABC poem

An ABC poem has a series of lines that create a mood, picture, or feeling. Lines are made up of words and phrases. The first word of line 1 begins with an A, the first word of line 2 begins with a B etc.

Example of ABC poem - author unknown

Although things are not perfect
Because of trial or pain
Continue in thanksgiving
Do not begin to blame
Even when the times are hard
Fierce winds are bound to blow

• Haiku Poetry Type is a Japanese poem composed of three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables. Haiku poetry originated in the sixteenth century and reflects on some aspect of nature and creates images.
  
  

Haiku Tercet Stanza by Basho

Ah, summer grasses!
All that remains
Of the warriors dreams.

• Ballad Poems

Ballad Poems are poems that tells a story similar to a folk tale or legend and often has a repeated refrain. A ballad is often about love and often sung. A ballad is a story in poetic form. 

Example of Ballad Poems - Excerpt

The Mermaid By Unknown author

Oh the ocean waves may roll,
And the stormy winds may blow,
While we poor sailors go skipping aloft
And the land lubbers lay down below, below, below
And the land lubbers lay down below.

• Epic Poems- 

Epic Poems are long, serious poems that tells the story of a heroic figure. Some of the most famous epic poems are the Iliad and the Odyssey by Homer and the epic poem 

Example of Epic Poems - Excerpt

Hiawatha's Departure
from The Song of Hiawatha
by
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

By the shore of Gitchie Gumee, 
By the shining Big-Sea-Water, 
At the doorway of his wigwam, 
In the pleasant Summer morning, 

• If you would like to know more types of poems, please go to www.types-of-poetry.org.uk/05-ballad-poems.htm