EkphrasticPoemModels

OVERVIEW OF LESSON STRUCTURE 1) Subject/Verb Ex: Birds fly. 2) Subject/ Verb, COORDINATING CONJUNCTION + Subject/Verb Ex: Birds fly, and hunters shoot. 3) SUBORDINATING CONJUNCTION + Subject/Verb, Subject/Verb (x3) Subject /Verb SUBORDINATING CONJUNCTION Subject/Verb Ex: Although birds fly, hunters miss. Birds fly, even though hunters shoot. SC = after​
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. 4) PREPOSITIONAL PHRASE, Subject/Verb Subject/Verb PREPOSITIONAL PHRASE Ex: In the sky, birds fly. Birds fly in the sky. 5) Subject, Subject, COORDINATING CONJUNCTION Subject/ Verb Ex: Robins, larks, and starlings fly. CC = For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So 6) Subject/Verb, Verb, COORDINATING CONJUNCTION Verb Ex: Birds swoop, rise, and fall. CC = For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So 7) CONJUNCTIVE ADVERB, Subject/Verb Subject/Verb; CONJUNCTIVE ADVERB, Subject/Verb Ex: Next, birds fly. Hunters shoot; however, birds swerve. CA = ​
certainly, comparatively, consequently, conversely, currently, elsewhere, equally, finally, eventually, however, henceforth, in fact, incidentally, indeed, instead, still, next, nonetheless, moreover, likewise, now, then, thus, thereafter, therefore, subsequently, undoubtedly, on the other hand, etc. LESSON ONE “The Harvesters” by Pieter Bruegel the Elder (from the Metropolitan Museum of Art) FORMAT Subject/Verb Ex: Birds fly. Model Ekphrastic Poem LESSON TWO “La Torre de Babel/The Tower of Babel” by Van Heemskerck (from Colección de Arte Amalia Lacroze de Fortabat) FORMAT Subject/ Verb, COORDINATING CONJUNCTION + Subject/Verb Ex: Birds fly, and hunters shoot. LESSON THREE “Plum party in spring dust, Bonsai” by Utagawa Toyokuni III FORMAT SUBORDINATING CONJUNCTION + Subject/Verb, Subject/Verb (x3) Subject /Verb SUBORDINATING CONJUNCTION Subject/Verb Ex: Although birds fly, hunters miss. Birds fly, even though hunters shoot. SC = after​
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. LESSON FOUR “Broken Fingaz Crew” Street Art, London FORMAT PREPOSITIONAL PHRASE, Subject/Verb Subject/Verb PREPOSITIONAL PHRASE Ex: In the sky, birds fly. Birds fly in the sky. LESSON FIVE “The Temptation of Saint Anthony” by Joos van Craesbeeck FORMAT Subject, Subject, COORDINATING CONJUNCTION Subject/ Verb Ex: Robins, larks, and starlings fly. CC = For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So LESSON SIX “Peeta” from the Subagora FORMAT Subject/Verb, Verb, COORDINATING CONJUNCTION Verb Ex: Birds swoop, rise, and fall. CC = For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So LESSON SEVEN “War News” by Norman Rockwell FORMAT CONJUNCTIVE ADVERB, Subject/Verb Subject/Verb; CONJUNCTIVE ADVERB, Subject/Verb Ex: Next, birds fly. Hunters shoot; however, birds swerve. CA = ​
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