Cinqaine

Name: _________________ Hr _____ Date: ______

Composing Cinquain Poems

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Session One: Learning about Cinquain

Overview

Cinquain ("cin-kain") is a five-line form that uses a syllable count of two-four-six-eight-two. A "cinquain" (from cinq the French word for five) usually follows this organization:

Line 1: a one-word line, a noun that gives the poem its title

Line 2: two adjectives that that describes what the poem is about

Line 3: three action-ing verbs that describe something the subject of the poem does

Line 4: a phrase that indicates a feeling related to the subject of the poem

Line 5: a one-word line, noun, that sums about the poem is about, essentially renaming it

Student Objectives Students will: describe the basic conventions of cinquain; interpret examples of cinquain; characterize the relationship between structure and meaning in cinquain; compose a cinquain that describes a familiar person, place, or thing.

Resources

* Sample Cinquain Handout

* Cinquain Graphic Organizer

* Cinquain Reflections Worksheet

Session Two: Writing Cinquain

Line 1: a one-word title, a noun that tells what

the poem is about

Line 2: two adjectives describing the title

Line 3: three -ing action verbs

Line 4: a related phrase

Line 5: a synonym for the title

Here's an example: Sheepdog

Gentle, shaggy

ambling, rambling, shambling Image # : C1959-51324

a rollicking hayrick of unruly hair

Sadie

Once you and your students establish the characteristics of a cinquain, students can use the Student Reproducible Cinquain Graphic Organizer to compose original poems of their own. Students can work individually, with partners, or in small groups. Once students have finished their poems, the cinquains can be shared with the entire class.

Cinquain Demonstration Activities

Activity One:

Illustrate your cinquain on an 8.5 x 11.0 paper using colored pencils or fine-line markers.

Your artwork is to be ORIGINAL, DONE IN YOUR OWN HAND, and fills the page in LANDSCAPE FORMAT ONLY. (You will be converting these images to DVDs)

Activity Two:

Illustrate 5 cinquains on an 8 1/2 x 11 sheets of paper using appropriate photographs from each of the sites. Your selected photographs are to be properly identified and referenced. Each of your cinquians is o be merged using Microsoft Word in LANDSCAPE FORMAT ONLY.

(You will be converting these images to DVDs)

NASA Photo Use Guidelines

Great Images In NASA http://grin.hq.nasa.gov/

Dryden Aircraft Collection http://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/gallery/photo/

NASA Multimedia Gallery http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/highlights/index.html

Hubble Space Telescope http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/

NASA's Visible Earth http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/

Activity Three: http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/stapleless/index.html

Make two stapleless books out of any of the two cinquains you created..

Activity Four: Create a bulletin board site anthology of the class's cinquain products.