Now that you have read through all of the poems and chosen a winner to advance to the Elite 8, the pressure has mounted. Read the winners of Game 2 and Game 4.
Choose your winner based on the following criteria:
- Which poem's meaning is more important to you?
- What personal connection can you make?
- Which poet's craft do you enjoy more? Be sure to give examples.
- Poet's craft can include: repetition, imagery, personification, rhyme, alliteration, couplets, onomatopoeia, simile/metaphor, etc
Make sure your answer is detailed and explains the three bullet points.
Here is an example of proficient writing:
Mother to Son is a more important poem because it has a deeper meaning. A mother is telling her son to never give up in life even when it gets hard.
I can make a connection to Mother to Son because sometimes I want to give up, and my mom always comforts me.
I enjoy the repetition of the metaphor, “Life for me ain't been no crystal stair.”
I choose Mother to Son as the winner. 
I like Roger The Dog's rhyming pattern. It is aa. I really like how it describes Roger. In Who Has Seen The Wind, I like how it has the first two sentences repeat in the second paragraph. I think Who Has Seen The Wing has more meaning to me but I like Roger The Dog the best.
ReplyDeleteI choose Roger The Dog as the winner.
I chose who has seen the wind because it's saying even if you can't see something it is there.
ReplyDeleteAlso it has a great rhyme scheme and has a lot of imagery.
I can make a connection because nobody today can actually see the wind.
I chose who has seen the wind because it has a greater meaning.
Roger the dog to me has a deeper meaning because it shows that if you're lazy you will get nothing out of it.
ReplyDeleteI can connect to both. I can connect to roger the dog because I know that not all dogs are super enthusiastic. Like roger. I can connect to who has seen the by knowing that you can't see everything that's beautiful.
I like the alliteration in roger the dog (Flops flat and digs down deep)The personification in Who has seen the wind were good as well. For example, The leaves hang trembling and The trees bow down their heads.
I chose... Who has seen the wind
The meaning of Who has seen the Wind is more important to me because it is saying nobody can't see the wind. I make a personal connection with Roger the Dog because my dog loves to lay beside the fire and be lazy. I enjoy the poet's craft for Roger the dog better because I like how the poet is talking about a lazy dog. I choose Roger the dog as the winner!
ReplyDeleteI chose Roger the dog for the winner because it is a funny poem and it has lots of descriptive ways of writing. It has lots of couplets like He hogs the fire, he bakes his head as if it were a loaf of bread. It also a simile when it says ,"he bakes his head as if it were a loaf of bread.
ReplyDeleteI can make a connection because my dog is very lazy and fat. She lays down to eat and will refuse to walk sometimes.
Neither poem has a lot of meaning but I liked both.
I chose Roger the dog.
Who Has Seen the Wind?, is a more important poem because it has a deeper meaning and I like the concept of it.
ReplyDeleteI can make a connection to Who Has Seen the Wind?, because it reminds me of other books that have the same concept of Who Has Seen the Wind.
I chose Who Has Seen the Wind?, because I enjoy the repetition. For example, it uses repetition with the phrase Who Has Seen the Wind? I also enjoy the personification of But when the trees bow down on their heads. I also enjoy the rhyme scheme of ABCBADEF. That is why I chose Who Has Seen the Wind?
Roger the Dog has more meaning to me because my old dog used to lie around all day until it was time to eat.
ReplyDeleteI can make a connection with Who Has Seen the Wind because when I look outside, I can see the trees swaying and the leaves jiggling.
I like the personification in who has seen the wind. For example, "When the trees when the trees bow down their heads.
I choose Who has seen the wind as the winner.
Roger the Dog has more meaning to me. Roger reminds me of my dog Blue who passed away. The writer's craft, imagery, is Blue, for example, "He will not race, he will not romp, He saves his strength for gobble and chomp."(Blue was a girl) I miss Blue and this poem gives me joy.
ReplyDeleteI choose the same, Roger the dog because my dog Sallie passed away too.
DeleteWho Has Seen the Wind is more important poem to me because it has a more deeper meaning. A person is saying wind is invisible but we can still see it through the trees and through the leaves.
ReplyDeleteI can make a connection to Roger the Dog because I have a dog and also my cousin's cousin's dog is really fat and lazy Just like Roger. His name is Harold.
I enjoy the similes in Roger the Dog like,"As if it were a loaf of bread." Or,"Like a miner..."
I choose Roger the Dog.
Roger the dog has a good meaning because I had a dog just like Roger named Sallie. Roger is about a dog who just likes to be lazy and lay around.
ReplyDeleteI like roger the dog because it has a meaning to me and My meaning is I had a dog named Sallie and she was lazy and she would eat her food she did not like to go outside She just liked to to lay around. One thing she did not do is roll in cowclap.
I enjoy the part in the poem when it said,"He rolls round is cowclap up to his eyes." I thought it was funny and I thought it was a good image.
I choose Roger the dog because I has meaning to me.
I like Roger the dog because I think it is funny.I also like how the poem roger the dog explains Roger really well.
ReplyDeleteI can make a connection with Roger the Dog because I have a dog and sometimes she can be lazy but other times she can be really hyper.
I enjoy the imagery in the poem. I can picture a lazy dog who doesn't want to do anything.
That is why I chose Roger the Dog as the winner.
Roger The Dog has a deeper meaning to me because I have two dogs of my own. I can also make a connection with this poem because Roger and my two dogs have some stuff in common and they have some things not in common. For example, Roger is a lazy dog my two dogs are not like that. They love to run outside and throughout the day sometimes take a nap. One thing that they have in common is they are both nice dogs.
ReplyDeleteI also liked how the rhyme pattern was (AABB). This is a couplet. It also has imagery. When I am reading this poem I have a picture of Roger walking around inside in my head.
I chose Roger The Dog as the winner.
The poem with the most meaning to me is Who Has Seen the Wind? because it is a great example of seeing isn't believing. I think this virtue is something all human beings strive to do in there lives. Whenever I don't believe in something I will always think of the poem Who Has Seen the Wind? and I will be reminded that seeing isn't believing.
ReplyDeleteI can make a personal connection to Roger the Dog because sometimes I feel just like Roger. I don't want to get off the couch or go outside or do anything. I just want to save all my strength for eating, breathing and watching movies. I think Roger and I must be related because we are both really lazy. That is my connection to Roger the Dog.
The poet's craft I enjoyed the most is Roger the Dog because it had great imagery. It really painted a picture in my mind of a fat, lazy dog doing absolutely nothing. Also, it used couplets throughout the whole poem. For example, He will not race, he will not romp, he saves his strength for gobble and chomp. Finally, Roger the Dog used similes,metaphors and alliteration. For example, Then flops flat, and digs down deep, like a miner into sleep. I chose Roger the Dog as the winner.
The first poem is Roger the Dog, it is about a dog that is lazy and is not that smart. Roger's favorite things to do is to be a lazy bones and a lot more .
ReplyDeleteThe second poem is Who Has Seen the Wind, it is about a boy that says who has seen the wind and it is cool. It is impossible to see the wind but he says it in a deep and hartfull way.
I vote for Who has Seen the wind because it is really cool and stuff like that. It is really cool that a boy says have you seen the wind. That is why I vote for Who has seen the Wind.
I chose Roger The Dog because it has a meaning to me. My dog, Lulu, is pretty lazy. She is not as lazy as Roger but still. I can relate to it because in the poem Roger will not do anything his owner tells him to do and my dog doesn't do anything I say. Also I like Roger the Dog's poet craft better because it uses a lot of similes and that makes the poem more interesting.
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Who Has Seen The Wind has more meaning to me because it touched my heart. It touched my heart because of its strong meaning
ReplyDeleteI can make a connection with who has seen the wind because sometimes me and my dad have little talks outside.
I like who seen the wind's poets craft more because it has great rhthyme . plus I like the words it uses. Also I like the meaning.
The poem The Falling Star meant more to me because the first time I saw a shooting star it looked unreal, and was one of the most beautiful things I have seen in my life.
ReplyDeleteI can also relate to falling star because when I went on a kayaking trip I saw a shooting star, and it was amazing.
I liked how Sara Teasdale used great poet craft. For example,Blinding the north as it went by.
I choose the falling star to win this
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The first poem, Who has seen the Wind is about someone who is wondering about the wind.
ReplyDeleteThe second poem, Falling star is about someone sees a wonderful star.
My favorite was Falling Star because it is very meaningful and I love watching the stars with my family
The meaning for who has seen the wind is more important because I've always loved nature and the feel of wind rushing past me.
ReplyDeleteI can make a connection with the falling star. the connection I have is that whenever I see a shooting star it seems like it is the most beautiful thing in the world to me.
I like who has seen the winds writer's craft because whenever I read it it paints a amazing picture of nature in my mind and it makes me happy.I choose who has seen the wind .
The falling Star means more to me. This is because of I know that when I make a wish, I will be happy and confident because it makes me feel better when I know that there is a (very small) chance that it will come true. I also like how they used imagery to make it feel more realistic.
ReplyDeleteThe one the that I can make a connection with is Who Has Seen The Wind?. I remember that once on a Summer day I was very hot and I asked myself, "Where is the wind?" I felt like I was melting and when I went inside I completely dried up and fine.
I enjoy the falling star better because of the writer's craft is very creative. The poem has alliteration, for example, sky-by hold-sold on-gone. It also has a little bit of rhyme scheme in it.
I choose The Falling Star as the winner.
The falling star had more meaning to me because it was sweet and short.
ReplyDeleteI can relate to who has seen the wind because I have wondered about the wind to.
I liked the falling star because it had good couplets and rhymes.
I pick the falling star.