Where I’m From Poem + Collage

1. Where I’m From Poem + Collage Assignment: You will write your very own “Where I’m From” poem! The purpose of this poem is for you to use creative and beautiful language and rich imagery to tell where you’re from. In this poem, I am looking for your use of simile, metaphor, personification, and imagery! Rhythm and sound devices still important, but do not “sacrifice” a good image for a rhyme! Directions: 1. Go on the class website and read the sample “Where I’m From” poems. Notice how the poets use specific images on every line to talk about their upbringing. 2. Brainstorm as many samples of imagery from your childhood. These should be rich tastes (like spices, specific foods, medicine, dirt) Tantalizing and terrible smells (like bleach, and lemon dish detergent, and rich rotting earth, and fresh cut summer roses) bright colors (like vibrant purple, and deep aqua, and bloodclot blue) harsh or musical sounds (like The Beatles, and Beethoven, and kersplash, and kaboom, and the endless burbling of a little stream) Textured touches (like scratchy tree bark, and soft silk linen sheets, and fragile lace, and swollen bee stings) 3. Arrange the words into a poem that repeats “Where I’m From” or “I’m From” like the poems on the website. 4. Create a collage that represents the ideas from your poem around it. Marks: Poem /10 Collage /10