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 5 and Game 7.
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, quatrain, etc
Make sure your answer is detailed and explains the three bullet points.
I chose The Falling Star as my favorite poem because I thought it had a deeper meaning. For example, I liked how it was about a special moment and you should not waste it.
I also liked this poem because I can make a connection. I really enjoy watching beautiful stars too.
Finally, I really liked this poem because it had poet's craft. For example, it had a rhyme scheme AABBCC. Also, the author used couplets in the poem. For example, "I saw a star slide down the sky. Blinding the north as it went by."
This is why I chose The Falling Star as my favorite poem.
Life doesn't frighten me has a more important meaning because it was a guy saying life doesn't frighten him.
ReplyDeleteMy connection is to the poem Choosing shoes. I was at the shoe store and I could not decide what shoes to get.
I liked the writer in Choosing shoes better because I liked the rhyme scheme. It was aaab. It had metaphors, It also had alliteration. For example some so, and flat fat.
I chose Choosing shoes
I think choosing shoes has a better connection because whenever I get on my computer and look for shoes it is very hard to find the perfect ones.
ReplyDeleteI think Life Doesn't Frighten Me has a more important meaning because it's saying that you shouldn't be afraid of everything.
I think life doesn't frighten me has better poet's craft because it has better rhyming. For example it says, "Bad dogs barking loud. Big ghosts in a cloud."
I choose Life Doesn't Frighten Me as the winner.
Life doesn't Frighten me has the most meaning to me. It has the most meaning to me because it is saying that life.... doesn't frighten me.
ReplyDeleteI can make a personal connection from Choosing Shoes. I can make a connection because once I saw a lot of shoes and did not know which one to pick.
I enjoyed the poet's craft of Choosing Shoes the best. I chose Choosing Shoes because it has a lot of repetition. For example, it said shoes 10 times at the end of the line.
I choose Choosing Shoes.
Game 3
ReplyDeleteChoosing shoes to me has more meaning. It means everyone is different. Like, I might like grey shoes, but you might like pink. We both have different opinions. Second, you might have wide feet, so you need fatter shoes, but I have skinny but long feet, I need longer shoes. We both have different sizes.
I connect with Life doesn’t frighten me. Life doesn’t frighten me because I am in God’s hands. He knows my whole life and has planned it, I just live it. Remember how Jesus walked on water? God planned that to happen. That is why life doesn’t frighten me.
I liked the Writer’s craft in Choosing shoes. It was amazing how the poet came up with all of the styles of the shoes, and all the colors. I also liked it because it had rhythm. You could turn that poem into a song easily.
And the winner is……………………………….
CHOOSING SHOES !!!
I chose Choosing Shoes as my favorite poem because I thought it had a deeper meaning.For example,I liked how it was about a man trying to get the most likable by him shoes he could find.
ReplyDeleteI also really liked this poem because I can make a connection.I really like to choose new shoes.
Finally,I really liked this poem because it had poet's craft.For example,it had a rhyme scheme AAAB.Also,the author used quatrains in the poem,for example,New shoes,new shoes,
Red and pink and blue shoes.
Tell me,what would you choose,
If they let us buy?
This is why I chose Choosing Shoes as the winner.
I think Life Doesn't Frighten Me has a more important meaning because you can't let everything get to you.
ReplyDeleteI have a connection with Choosing Shoes because at the beginning of the year there are so many shoes to choose from for school.
I like Choosing Shoe's rhyme scheme better because it is an AAAB rhyme scheme. Also, there is alliteration. For example,
Bright shoes, white shoes
Dandy-dance by night shoes.
Also, I imagined a person walking around a shoe store trying to find the perfect shoes.
I choose Choosing Shoes.
I chose, Choosing Shoes has a more important meaning to me. For example, the meaning is it sometimes can be hard to choose shoes that you like and can only get one pair of shoes.
ReplyDeleteI have a good connection with Choosing Shoes. For example, it sometimes can be very hard for me to choose which pair of shoes I should get.
For the poem, Choosing Shoes, I really liked the rhyme scheme of this poem. For example, it was AAAB. Also I liked how it described the different types of shoes the shoe store had. For example, it said ”Buckle shoes, bow shoes, Pretty pointy-toe shoes”.
I choose, Choosing Shoes as my winner.
I think Choosing Shoes has the best meaning out of the two poems. For example, every day new shoes are bought and worn. I also like that it covers a lot of things involving how hard it is to find the right pair. I like the main idea.
ReplyDeleteI can make a connection with Life Doesn’t Frighten Me. It names a ton of things people are scared of. But I like a lot of the “scary things” they say are scary. I like to be adventures so on the second page of this poem it has a line on going to the bottom of the ocean. I think that would be so cool if it was possible.
Finally, I liked the writer's craft in Life Doesn’t Frighten Me. It rhymes a lot. I love rhyming but not tons of rhyming. The rhyme scheme was AAABBA. This poem didn’t really have any alliteration or other writer’s craft.
I choose Choosing Shoes as the winner!
I thought that life doesn’t frighten me at all has a more important meaning because it is talking about life. That is why it has a more important meaning.
ReplyDeleteThe connection that I can make with choosing shoes I also have a hard time choosing shoes, because all my friends tease me and say I have too many shoes and that I am spoiled.
I liked the writer's craft in this story because I liked the rhyme scheme. For example, red pink and blue shoes tell me what you would choose.
I pick choosing shoes.
I choose the life doesnt frighten me as my favorite poem because It has a deeper meaning to me . for example I liked how it was about a brave girl.
ReplyDeleteI can make a connection to it. I think I am very brave to and also can be scared.
I also liked this poem because of its craft. It had good imagery and it had cupplets. For example wall and hall, loud and cloud.
I pick life doesn't frighten me as my winner.
I think Life Doesn't Frighten Me has a good meaning because it is telling you to not focus on the past, but focus on what is in the present.
ReplyDeleteI made a connection with the poem, Choosing Shoes. I agree that there are a lot of different types of shoes you can buy.
I think the poem, Choosing Shoes had good poet's craft. For example, I noticed it had alliteration and a good rhyme scheme of AAAB.
I choose Life Doesn't frighten Me as the winner.
I chose life doesn’t frighten me as my favorite poem because it had a deeper meaning. For example, instead of talking about different kinds of shoes, It is talking about the things that don't frighten them and it really tells me that we are all afraid, and that it is ok to be afraid because everyone has been there and everyone is afraid of these things.
ReplyDeleteI also liked Life Doesn’t Frighten Me, because I can make a connection with it , I too am afraid of things and sometimes I worry that other people will laugh about what I am afraid of, but all of us have been there before.
Finally, I really liked Life Doesn’t Frighten Me because it has almost a hidden meaning. People that aren’t looking into the poem would probably say that the poem is about a man saying that life doesn’t frighten him, I looked into it deeper and I saw that it was sort of sending a message that these things everyone is afraid of, and it’s ok. We all have fear and we are all scared. It also has great writer’s craft, because they used a lot of couplet such as wall hall and loud cloud. It also has good rhyme scheme, for example the first four lines go aaab.
Choosing shoes has a meaning that tells that everyone likes a different type a shoe. For example I have a text to text connection which is my dad likes adidas shoes and my mom likes nike shoe
ReplyDeleteI connect to Life doesn't frighten me because it tells me I am always in God's hands.
Life doesn't frighten me. Has an example of imagery in my opinion because it paints a picture i my head of a halloween night and little kids dressed as ghosts trying to scare people.
I think that choosing shoes had a better writer's craft than life doesn't frighten me because choosing shoes had a good rhyme scheme that was AAAB.
I chose choosing shoes as the WINNER
I thought Choosing Shoes had meaning: for example: it was about a kid complaining about shoes. His parents never let him buy cool ones.
ReplyDeleteI chose Choosing Shoes as my favorite poem because it had qualities of real life. For example: Flat shoes, fat shoes, Stump along like that shoes, Wipe them on the mat shoes, That's the sort they’ll buy.
The other poem, life doesn’t frighten me, is a little boring. It is a mixture of seriousness and sternness.
Finally, my connection to Choosing Shoes is that my parents never let me buy cool shoes. They always say no.
I chose Choosing Shoes as my winner.
LIfe Doesn’t Frighten me had a better meaning to me. For example, I liked how the nothing fazed him/her. They weren’t afraid of anything.
ReplyDeleteI can make a connection to Choosing shoes because, I love choosing shoes with all the different kinds. It can get REALLY hard to choose sometimes!!
I liked Life Doesn’t Frighten Me because of the writer’s craft. The rhyme scheme was AABBCC. That also means that they are couplets. Also a metaphor. For example, “I’ve got a magic charm up my sleeve.” It doesn’t literally mean that the magic charm is up his sleeve
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Life Doesn't Frighten Me I felt like had a better meaning. For example I thought it was saying even the scariest things can be really cool.
ReplyDeleteI had a connection to Choosing Shoes. My connection was that it is always hard to choose from so many types of shoes.
I feel like Choosing Shoes had better writers craft. For example I feel like it had much better rhythm, and it was very smooth.
I choose Choosing Shoes as the winner!!
I chose choosing shoes for my poem because it has a good rhyme scheme. It also has a very nice starting and ending that pulls you in. it is one of the best poems.
ReplyDeleteIt is very smooth and has the best type of rhythm.
It has a good start and end for example it said red shoes blue shoes big shoe new shoe.
I choose life dosnt frighten me because i think it has a deeper meaning of people who are scary like strangers in the dark.
ReplyDeleteI can connect to choosing shoes because whenever I choose shoes I can´t decide which ones to choose.
I really like choosing shoes because it has a ton of alliterations like silver shiney ones.
I choose choosing shoes.
Life Doesn’t Frighten Me has more of a meaning because it says how you shouldn’t be afraid of life even if life is hard.
ReplyDeleteI have a connection with, Choosing Shoes, because it is hard for me to pick shoes.
I liked Choosing Shoes’ rhyme scheme because it was the same every stanza. Also, Because the alliteration. For example, ‘Tell me, what would you choose’ Finally, because the imagery. It makes me imagine I am in a shoe store picking out new shoes.
I picked Choosing Shoes
DeleteI think "Life Doesn't Frighten Me" has deeper meaning. For example, it talks about how brave a woman is, and how she is not afraid of anything. Although, I don't think she isn't frightened of everything. That's pretty much impossible! :)
ReplyDeleteI connected with the poem, "Choosing Shoes". I chose this because I can be very picky when it comes to shoes...
Finally, I liked "Choosing Shoes" because it has a unique rhyme scheme. For example, it goes, "AAAB AAAB AAAB C AAAB".
I chose "Choosing Shoes" as my winner.
The poem that means the most to me is the poem life doesn't frighten me. THe reason this poem means the most to me is because it is about a girl that always thinks about these really scary things and then says life doesn't frighten me.
ReplyDeleteThe poem I can make a connection with is buying shoes I can make a connection with this poem is because it is sort of the same way when I go buying my new school shoes.
I pick life doesn't frighten me because the girl is just so sweet saying that I mean it takes a lot of courage to just say life doesn't frighten me just like that even though she is talking about a few of the scariest things.
Life Doesn't Frighten Me has a more important meaning. For instance, it is saying I am not afraid of anything. The biggest meaning is “I am only afraid of my dreams.”
ReplyDeleteI have a better connection with Choosing Shoes. One time I was at the mall and I saw these girls looking at shoes. They were like, “What shoes should I get.” They started naming different types of shoes. It reminded me of this poem. For example, “New shoes, new shoes Red Pink and Blue shoes.”
I really liked the poem Choosing Shoes because I loved how it rhymed. For instance, “Buckle shoes, Bow shoes Pretty pointy toe shoes.” Also, I liked when the rhyme scheme aaab aaab.
I choose Choosing Shoes as my winner.
Life doesn't Frighten is my favorite poem so far probably in the entire bracket. I think that this means a lot and that it can inspire people to not be scared.
ReplyDeleteLife doesn’t Frighten me is a poem that I can’t make a connection to because the truth is that i’m scared that every time I turn a corner i’m going to be attacked, or maybe that my house will catch on fire. Stuff like that.
My winner is obviously Life doesn’t frighten me because it had meaning, it had emotion, it had everything a poem could want. I feel like it had amazing imagery, and that it could win an award.
I chose Choosing Shoes as my favorite poem because I it was my style in life. For example, I liked how it talked about different kinds of shoes like when it said “Red, Pink, and Blue shoes.”
ReplyDeleteI also liked the poem because I can make a connection. I really like shopping for shoes. (Or anything really).
Finally, I really liked this because it had imagery. For example, it had a rhythm of (5 6 6 5) with the lines “New shoes, new shoes, Red, pink blue shoes. Tell me, what would you choose, If they'd let us buy.” One more reason why I choose this is because it is like a really short rap.
I pick choosing shoes as my winner.
Choosing Shoes to me has a better meaning. It is about different types of shoe. And someone saying which would you choose like if your going shopping which pair is best.
ReplyDeleteI can connect with Choosing Shoes better. I love getting new shoes. And to me shoes are cool and the different types of them. Last I have been in a situation where I don’t know what to get like when it says “ What would you choose.
Finally, I really liked Life Doesn’t Frighten me poet’s craft. I really liked the imagery because for example when it said something I thought of it like Lions on the lose I think of lions. And I like the alliteration like when it say Mean old mother goose MM.
I choose Choosing Shoes as my winner
Life Doesn't Frighten Me has a better meaning because lots of people get scared easily. Also the scariest things can actually be very fascinating.
ReplyDeleteMy connection is with choosing shoes. You have to get the PERFECT shoes. Not too big but not too small, not too shiny but not too dull.
My winner is Choosing Shoes because i like how the person made up all those different types of shoes like, " wipe-them-on-the-mat-shoes" or " stump-along-like-that-shoes."
I also liked how they did alliteration.
I have a deeper meaning with choosing shoes because. I like diffrent kind of shoes like.Nike,basketball shoes baseball cleets all diffrent kind of shoes.
ReplyDeleteI have a connection with choosing shoes because I have gone through tones of shoes like baseball shoes,basketball shoes,even tennis shoes.
I think the writers craft is really good the Imagery is good and the Repetition is good. for example for imagery the shoes he says you can image in your head the colorful shoes.
I pick chosing shoes!
I like the meaning for Life Doesn’t Frighten Me because the mother told the kid that her life has been bad but she has kept going because she is not afraid of life.
ReplyDeleteI have a connection with Choosing shoes because it is always really hard to choose shoes. The person choosing shoes doesn’t know if he/she should get red, pink, blue, bright, white, etc.
The writer’s craft in Choosing Shoes was great. It had a really a good rhyme scheme. It was AAAB in every paragraph. It also had alliteration and one was Dandy-dance.
I choose Choosing shoes to win.
Choosing Shoes has a meaning like people have their own style and imagination.
ReplyDeleteChoosing Shoes has a connection like when I was little I remember picking out shoes from a shoe store.
Choosing Shoes has good detail. For example, Flat shoes, Fat shoes. It has really good imagery. You can see people picking shoes at a shoe store.
I choose Choosing Shoes.