Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Poetry Madness: Game 6

Choose a winner for Game 6 tonight. Here is a reminder as to how your responses will be graded.

Poetry Madness Blog Response Rubric

Exceeds Expectations

Meets Expectations

Working Toward Expectations

Below Expectations

Poem 1 Summary – you explain the main idea of the poem in a clear, concise way.

Poem 2 Summary – same as above

Supported Opinion – your own thoughts, use a “because,” you explain specific poet’s craft that you like, ask a question, make a connection.

Well-written to the best of your individual ability (spelling, punctuation, complex and compound sentence structure)

30 comments:

GS said...

The Castle in the Fire= The Castle in the Fire is about a castle that is on fire and there is a lady and a knight trying to escape the fire.

Do you carrot all for me?= Do you carrot all for me is about a man asking a woman if she can marry him in a vegatable way.

I like Do you carrot all for me better because it is very clever how they wrote it. I like how they used vegatable words to say normal words.

JS said...

The first poem,"Do you carrot all for me", is about a person who wrights a poem about wondering if they car at all for the person but, using plants to describe there feelings about that person.

The second poem,"The Castle in the Fire", is about a knight that battles a dragon to save the princess trapped in the castle.

I choose,"The Castle in the Fire", because I always like the princess and knight stories.

M.H. said...

The first poem I read was Do you Carrot all for Me? Next I read The Castle in the Fire. Do you Carrot all for Me? was about someone asking someone else if they cared at all for them in vegetable language. The Castle in the Fire was about dragons burning up a castle while a lady was in it. Then a knight comes, kills the dragon and saves the lady.
I liked Do you Carrot all for me better because it was kind of funny and The Castle in the Fire was too romantic/ fairy-taleish.

willp said...

do you carrot all for me was a good way to use fruits and vegtables as examples of words. I also thought it was pretty funny. But the meanig? I thought it was just a way to say do you care at all about me.


The castle in the fire was about people who witnessed a dragon vs knight battle. Then the knight saved the princess.


I choose the castle in the fire because i prefer action over a lovefest.

Olivia said...

The first poem Do you carrot all for me? is about someone making sort of like a love letter using food as words. Maybe the man who is talking is taking a hard subject to talk about and making it funny.
The second poem The Castle in the Fire is about a knight who is trying to save a princess and has to fight dragons to save her.
The poem I liked best was Do you carrot all for me? because I liked how it used food instead of regular words to describe how he was feeling. I also thought it was interesting that a poet would think of a poem like that.

HS said...

The Castle in the fire was pretty bad because it was about the Knight who save's a lady.


Do you Carrot all for me was pretty bad to because I do not like vegetables.

I choose Do you Carrot all for me because the other one was to princess.

BW said...

The first poem, Do you Carrot all for me, is about a person that says things and uses food for words. The second poem, The castle in the fire is about how the knight saves the lady. I liked Do you Carrot all for me because i liked the fruit and veggie words.

KP said...

I interpreted that the first poem, Do You Carrot For Me, is about the author writing a love story with fruits and vegetables.
I thought that the second poem, The Castle In The Fire, was about a story that is told in a poem.
My favorite poem is Do You Carrot For Me because I love the way the author puts in foods hear and there.

JL said...

The poem Castle In The Fire was about these people in a castle that one day see a knight coming to try and come and get the lady, which reminds me of Shrek.

The poem Do You Carrot all For Me is about someone asking words that ryme and also do something like Do you carrot at all for me which the carrot means care.

I liked Castle In The Fire more because it made a lot more sense to me and didn't use words like carrot to ryme.

MS said...

The first poem, Do you carrot all for me, is about a boy who is wondering if a girl cares for him.

The second poem, The Castle in the Fire, is about a knight who is brave enough to go up to the gate of the castle and try to kill the dragon so he cauld have his lady.

I pick The Castle in the Fire because it has really good poet's craft. The poem The Castle in the Fire reminds me of fairy tales.

ALB said...

Do you Carrot all for me? is telling about a marriage proposal in a fruity way!

The Castle in the Fire is about a knight who rescues a Princess from a tower.

I chose Do you Carrot all for me? because of the word choice and metaphors. I love how the poet wrote the poem with the different fruits and vegetables in each sentence. I like how the poet described the person with a fruit or vegetables.

KS said...

I think Do You Carrot All For Me? is about someone who is telling someone special, but with a twist of language.

I think The Castle in the Fire is about a lady trapped in a burning castle that has dragons guarding it, but a brave knight then goes to save the day.

My vote goes to Do You Carrot All for Me? because I think of a bunny saying this poem to his special someone. I just think of that as a happy, cute thought. I also am just not in a medieval mood.

cs said...

The first poem, Do You Carrot All For Me, is about someone describing his or her love, but is describing it with fruits and vegetables.

The second poem, The Castle in the Fire, is about a castle that is on fire from roaring dragons and a knight comes and saves a lady from the chaos.

Out of these two poems, I have to choose The Castle in the Fire as my favorite. I chose this one because it has good A and B rhyming words and it also has good description, so I can actually visualize what is going on in the poem.

The reason why I didn’t choose, Do You Carrot All For Me is because there was not much rhyming, but I did like how he described the person using types of food and it was a little confusing. For example,
You are a peach.
What does it mean if “you are a peach?’’

SD said...

Do you carrott all for me is about a person loving someone. They are showing that by talking about that person in a lovely way, but they are using fruit and vegetable names for other words. This poem is funny because they use fruit and vegetable names.
The Castle in the Fire is about a fire in a castle. A lady is in the castle as it is on fire. Suddenly a knight runs in and saves the lady. They come running out of the castle unharmed. I can visualize this happening in medieval times.
I choose The Castle in the Fire. I choose it because it is very intense and because I think medieval times are pretty interesting. I can also visualize it so well. Do you carrot all for me wasn't very interesting.

ES said...

The first poem is, Do you Carrot all For Me, it is about a vegetable couple who ask each other if the love them.
The second poem, The Castle of Fire, was about a person who was looking into a fire, and in the smoke she envisioned a castle with knights, dragons, and fire.
I chose them poem, Do you Carrot all for Me, because it is funny how the words are all like "lettuce" instead of "let us" which makes it fun and interesting to read. I also chose it because it had very good punctuation and shows not tell.

BT said...

In the first poem, Do you carrot all for me, is about how even though they are foods, that all things have feelings no matter what they are.

The second poem, The Castle in the Fire, is about a fire, a fight, and love at first sight. The dragon sets the fire, the knight comes to rescue the lady, and in the end the knight and the lady ride off together.

The poem I liked best was Do you carrot all for me because, it has an inside joke,( which is funny,) and it has well written lines.

AEC said...

The first poem, Do You Carrot All For Me, is about someone asking if the other one cares about them and they want to get married.

The second poem, The Castle In The Fire, is about a knight rescuing a lady from a castle and dragons.

I like The Castle In The Fire because it tells more of a story and has action.

PB said...

The first poem, Do you carrot all for for me?, is about a person being in love asking the other person if she likes him too. The main idea of Do you carrot all for me is do you care about me asking the other person in a fruity way.

The second poem, The Castle in the Fire, is about the outside and the inside of the castle, and what armour it has. The main idea is about the knight in thecastle rescuing the lady in the tower.

I chose Do you carrot all for me to win this round.

HC said...

The first poem, Do you carrot all for me, is about a boy or a girl and they want to know if they like each other or not.

The second poem, The Castle in the Fire, is about a Knight trying to rescue the Lady, and they the Knight saved her from the dragon.

I chose The Castle in the Fire because I liked the punctuation and rhyme. I liked the punctuation because it made the poem more like a story which I liked, and I liked the rhyme because it made the poem more believable.

I also liked the ability to visualize and I had a personal connection. I liked the ability to visualize because it was easy you didn't have to think about it it just came in your head, and my personal connection was in Tangled the movie it sounded like the poem.

CB said...

Do you carrot for me at all is about how he/she is asking,"do you care at all for me" and how he/she discribes how the person is by using fruit medefor.

The Castle in the Fire is about how the knight fights the dragon in the fire and the back of a log fell and the smoke cleared out we saw that the knight has saved the princess.

I like The Castle in the Fire better becuase it rhyms and I like some of the descriptive launguge in the story.

EGT said...

Do You Carrot All For Me was about someone asking a person a serious but weird question and not caring about what or how their saying it.

The Castle In The Fire was about a knight that rescues a lady from a fire and a dragon that is guarding the castle so no one or nothing can get in it.

I choose The Castle In The Fire because I made a connection and that connection was that i have seen a movie in the past that has the same story and same ending.

TH said...

The first poem I read was Do You Carrot all For Me? The poet uses fruits and vegetables to tell the entire poem.
The second poem I read was The Castle in The Fire. The Castle in The Fire is about a knight that saves a princess in a fire.
I pick Do You Carrot all for me because it tricks you and makes you think it doesn't make sense, but if you read it the right way it is really cool.

JH said...

The first poem I read was Do you Carrot all for me?It was about someone who is in love and wants to get married.

The second poem is The Castle in the Fire. It was about a castle on fire and a knight coming to save a princess from a dragon.

I chose Do You Carrot All For Me? because I liked how the author used fruits and vegetables to make another meaning for the words.

LL said...

I chose the castle in the fire it was better because it really rhimed more and it it longer and better in my opinion.

PF said...

"Do you carrot all for me?" is a poem about a person talking to the one they love, but its funny because of the play on words.

"The Castle in the Fire" is about a knight that rides in on his horse and slays dragons to rescue his princess.

I chose to vote for "Do you carrot all for me?" because I loved the funny play on words. Despite the humor, it still asks a very important question about love.

Olivia said...

The first poem Life doesn’t Frighten Me at all is about a person saying all these scary things about life and that it does not frighten her/him.
The second poem Some one is about a person who thinks someone is knocking on their door and he opens it and to only find the still night.
The poem I liked best was life doesn’t frighten me at all because I liked how the poet put the different scary things about life and made it all rhyme. It was a fun poem.

ALB said...

The first poem I read, Life Doesn’t Frighten Me, tells me that Angelou Maya, someone In her life, or a fictional person isn’t afraid of life.

Some One is about a person who thinks someone is knocking at her door, but no one is there.

The poem I chose was Some One because of the word choice, rhyme, and line breaks. The line breaks were just like a song because at the end there would be a rhyme. If you wanted to you could probably label the poem with A and B. Also the descriptive language is good, for example “dewdrops fall” is describing how it is probably in the morning.

LA said...

I think that the first poem Do you Carrot all for me? means that a person is asking well, Do you Carrot all Fro Me? I think the second poem A Castle in the Fire is about a very wealthy castle in the fire and a knight owns it and it is surrounded by dragons in my visual picture. I think that the better one is The Castle in The Fire because even though Do you carrot all for Me is cute but the Castle in the Fire is a lot more interesting through the descriptive words.

Anonymous said...

I read Do You Carrot All For Me? It was about somone who is asking somone to marry him or her.

Then, I read The Castle in the Fire, it was about a girl trapped in a castle and a knight saves her from the fire and a dragon.

I chose Do You Carrot All For Me? Because I like how it twisted words to sound like a real word.

eb said...

The first poem called "Do you Carrot all for Me" is about a person in love talking about how in love they are with a twist to it.

The second poem "The Castle in the Fire" is about someone looking into the fire telling what they saw, they said they saw a castle being guarded by dragons but there is a fire in the castle inside the castle is a princess in trouble. A knight comes to the castle to save the princess. But just as the big seen is about to happen fire wood falls and makes it no longer seen. but a that moment they see a faint vision of a knight riding away with a princess.

i vote for "Do you Carrot all for Me" because i like the twist to it i have not seen many things like it.