Solar System Cinquain
A cinquain is a five-line poem. It follows this pattern:
Line1: One word
Line2: Two words
Line 3: Phrase
Line 4: Four words
Line 5: One word
Your assignment is to write eight cinquain poems. The eight must include:
ÕOne cinquain about comets.
ÕOne cinquain about asteroids.
ÕOne cinquain about a space probe studying a planet. Select one of the following
probes:
4Mars Rovers Spirit and Opportunity
4Dawn
4MESSENGER
4Cassini
4New Horizons
ÕOne cinquain about a telescope.
ÕFour cinquains about four different planets.
Here is your opportunity to use your creativity. Have fun doing this assignment.
Select and answer two of the following:
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Write a cinquain about gravity.
Write a cinquain about meteoroids, meteors, or meteorites.
Write a cinquain about a crater.
Write cinquains about the other four planets.
Examples
Mercury
Inner, little
Spins very slowly
Scary, weird, exhausting, freezing,
Planet
Neptune
Far, blue
Farthest from Sun
Cold, windy, fast, interesting
Giant
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Cinquain Graphic Organizer
A cinquain is a five-line poem that describes a person, place, or thing.
Apple
Red, Shiny
Biting, Chewing, Picking
Do Not Eat the Seeds
Manzana
Manzana
Rojo, Brillante
Mordiendo, Masticando, Recogiendo
No comes las semillas
Apple
Use this organizer to write your own cinquain.
One word that tells what
your poem is about (its
subject)
Two words that describe
your subject
Three word phrase
Four words that describe
something else about
your subject
One word that renames
what your poem
is about (a synonym)