Grade 4

1. +
What is Poetry?

2. +
What is Poetry?
 Sensory Details
 Musical Language
 Rhythm
 Imaginative Comparisons

3. +
What is Prose?
 Fiction
 Non-Fiction
 Journalism
 Et cetera

4. +
Examples
Poetry or Prose?

5. +
More than 20 students and community volunteers participated in
the Make Marion County Shine and state DEP cleanup on the
Fairmont State University campus in Fairmont on Saturday, April
18. The week also was National Volunteer Week.

6. +
I’m in the house.
It’s nice out: warm
sun on cold snow.
First day of spring
or last of winter.
My legs run down
the stairs and out
the door, my top
half here typing

7. +
You Try
Poetry or Prose?

8. +
#1
The fog comes
on little cat feet.
It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on.

9. +
#2
The woods look lovely against the setting darkness and as I gaze
into the mysterious depths of the forest, I feel like lingering here
longer. However, I have pending appointments to keep and
much distance to cover before I settle in for the night or else I will
be late for all of them.

10. +
#3
Yes, it can be expensive to eat healthy. But it doesn't have to be.
Many foods are high in nutrition but low in cost. Often they'll take
a little more time and effort to prepare, but they'll be good for both
your budget and your body.
Time is money, but time spent cooking can also be time with your
family, or a connection to your culture. It's worth it. I'm going to
show you seven incredibly nutritious foods you can afford to eat.
And then I'll give you an easy, delicious, affordable recipe to get
you started.

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#4
SOME things that fly there be,—
Birds, hours, the bumble-bee:
Of these no elegy.
Some things that stay there be,—
Grief, hills, eternity:
Nor this behooveth me.
There are, that resting, rise.
Can I expound the skies?
How still the riddle lies!

12. + Let’s Read
Poetry!

13. +
“April Rain Song”
Let the rain kiss you
Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops
Let the rain sing you a lullaby
The rain makes still pools on the sidewalk
The rain makes running pools in the gutter
The rain plays a little sleep song on our roof at night
And I love the rain.
By Langston Hughes

14. +
“Poem”
I’m in the house.
It’s nice out: warm
sun on cold snow.
First day of spring
or last of winter.
My legs run down
the stairs and out
the door, my top
half here typing
-- Ron Padgett