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"Preparing Minds for the Future;
Souls for Eternity!"

Color Poem Directions

Directions:

  1. Look in your crayon, marker, or colored pencils box. Choose your absolute favorite color. Scribble a patch of it at the top of the Color Poem Brainstorm worksheet (PDF*). Write the specific name of your color on the "color" lines of the worksheet. (Example: "scarlet" or "magenta" or "turquoise" or "fuschia")
  2. Completely fill out the Color Poem Brainstorm worksheet lists. Be very imaginative! Think about emotions, experiences, and events that somehow link with the color you have chosen. (Example: lime green can taste like watermellon, even though a watermellon's inner part is not lime green. If you associate the cool, wet watermellon flavor with lime green, that is a fine choice!)
  3. Use some of the words or phrases from your brainstorming to fill in the blanks on the Color Poem Frame worksheet. Remember to choose words or phrases from the brainstorm list with the number that matches the directions on the Poem Frame's blanks. Try to be very specific at this point. You may want to add to or change the wording that your brainstorm sheet uses. (Example: "wind" can become "soft breeze rustling the leaves" or "raging gusts tearing at my kite")
  4. Revise and edit your poem. Focus heavily on word choice and voice. Do not re-use the same idea in your poem; make sure each thought is fresh. Have an adult help you edit your conventions.
  5. Before your final copy, you need to mark where your poem will have line breaks, and where it will have stanza breaks. Generally, I suggest using one diagonal line for line-break marks, and two diagonal lines side-by-side for stanza break marks.
  6. Type your final copy. Choose a size that will allow the entire poem to fit on one page. Choose any font that is easy to read, and shows both upper and lower case letters. Title your poem with the color-name that you wrote about. Be sure to include "by ...." with your first name only. (These will be posted on our class website.) Finally, highlight all of your text and change it to the color that your poem describes. If your color is very light (such as yellow, pale green, pale blue, light pink, etc.), ask your teacher to help you change the background color of your page to black instead of white.
  7. Save your poem document in your H-drive. Then also save it as a web page (Shared drive, fifth grade, in the Color Poems folder). If you need help, ask your teacher!
  8. Print once in black-and-white. Print a second copy in color. (Black backgrounds will not show up when printing.) Turn in both copies to your teacher.

Fun "Color" links to inspire you:


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