ISO (In the Style of) Assignments:
Step 1: Read a short biography of a poet.
Step 2: Read a poem by that poet.
Step 2: Analyze the structure and rhetorical devices of the poem.
Step 3: Write your own poem, using the published poem as an inspiration and model.
Step 4: Upload to Peergrade and/or a final draft to your website or blog.
ISO #1: "I am Patient" by Jewel
ISO #2: "MAN I THOUGHT YOU WAS TALKING ANOTHER LANGUAGE THAT DAY" by Victor Hernandez Cruz
ISO #3 "Abuelito Who" by Sandra Cisneros
ISO #4 "Sam's World" by Sam Cornish
ISO #5 "Real World News Flash" by Arnold Adoff
ISO #6 "Love (dialogue) poem" by Michael Dransfield
ISO #7 "This is Just to Say" by William Carlos Williams and "Reply" by Flossie Williams
ISO #8 "Night of Snow" by Elizabeth Coatsworth
ISO #9 "Fifteen" by William Stafford
ISO #10 "MEMOS FROM A COMPANY RUN LIKE THE NFL" by Giancarlo Fiorantini and Jonathan Grimm
ISO #12 "THE ULTIMATE GUIDE TO WRITING BETTER THAN YOU NORMALLY DO" by Colin Nissan
ISO #13 "A Potrait of the Reader with a Bowl of Cereal" by Billy Collins
ISO #14 "Things I have to Tell You" by Laura Veuve
ISO #15 "Grasshoppers" by Paul Fleishmann
ISO #16 Metaphor Poems
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