Roses Are Red Ribbon Week Poetry

From time to time the finest issue to do for Red Ribbon Week is to have the students make their personal poetry. Working with the old Roses are red, violets are blue poem is uncomplicated for the students to make up their personal rhyme. Under are some examples.

Roses are red, Violets are blue, I will not ever take drugs, How about you?

Roses are red, Evening is black, I will not take drugs, Bring about I am smarter than that.

Roses are red, Trees are forest green, taking a lot of drugs may make me true imply.

Roses are red sheets are white, an individual presents me drugs, I'd say that is just not suitable.

Roses are red some bears are brown, taking drugs any time would make my parents seriously frown.

Use all the colors, gray, yellow, gold, silver, khaki, hot pink, clear, lime, striped, quite pink, camouflage, rust, peach, fresh cream, aqua, red, tan, purple, violet, red white and blue, black, red, navy blue, sky blue, vibrant plaid. Then some of the students will go appropriate to the dictionary and come across other folks.

Other individuals adore aquamarine, azure, beige, chocolate, coral, crimson, salmon, turquoise, brick fuchsia, honey dew, indigo, ivory, lavender, lemon chiffon, cyan, linen, magenta, maroon, rose, moccasin, Peru, sienna, teal, thistle, and quite a few other people.

If they seriously would enjoy to see the color they may possibly go on line and in the search box create html color names and it will take them to a web-site that will show the youngster the actual color.

Immediately after attempting a thing uncomplicated really like the Roses are Red poem have them try some other types of poetry. The ones that most students are familiar with or are taught in elementary college is haiku, tongue twisters, and limericks.

Have the students try other types of poetry appreciate haiku. Haiku Poetry is an unrhymed Japanese verse. Seventeen syllables in all, 3 unrhymed lines of 5, seven and 5 syllables. It is typically written in the present tense. It is rumored that the five/7/five rule was produced for college kids to realize and find out this type of poetry. Though this commonly is employed in describing seasons it functions nicely with describing the outcomes of taking drugs. Or it does properly to describe items to do in addition to drugs.

A tongue twister would be fun, also. Students really like to do tongue twisters since they can be silly and do not have to make quite a few sense. Alliterations may well be taught at this time mainly because that is what tongue twisters are. Tongue Twisters are created up of lines that are tough to say quickly. The poem must tie your tongue into knots.

Yet another type of poetry that they may well try with the subject of drugs is a limerick. A limerick is a rhymed humorous poem of 5 lines. The rhyming scheme is a-a-b-b-a.

All these forms of poetry could possibly be applied effectively to have the students express their feelings about drugs. Or they might use them to express their fears about drugs, their want to remain off drugs. Poetry is just a way for them to express their inner feelings without having fear. Red Ribbon week is an finest time to teach poetry and have these feelings expressed.

Resource Box - Caroline Mackay 2006 Caroline Mackay is a retired teacher of thirty seven years and writer and producer of a lot of college applications. She is the host of http://www.ezeducationplays.com/

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