SLJ Kick Start: Poetry Slam Rima

Today, I did a task in which I made a Clerihew poem on my favourite fictional character.

First, I watched this video in which I learnt the rules and how to make these poems.

Second, I saw some examples of Clerihew poems so that I get an idea of what I am going to make.

I read an example of a dog named Lily Bean and Franny's Clerihew Poem.

Third, I thought of a person that I would be making my poem which was Iron Man.

Next, I made a google drawings to add a picture of my character and write the lines of my poem.

The rules of writing a Clerihew poem is that - they are four lines long, the first and second lines rhyme with each other and the third and fourth lines rhyme with each other, the first line names a person and the second line ends with something that rhymes with the name of the person, they are meant to be funny and silly.

Then, I recorded my screencastify in which I read my poem from the start.

Lastly, I embedded the video on my blog post so that I can share my work. I made sure to change the permission settings to "anyone with the link".

I learnt that a clerihew is simply a four-line poem that makes fun of somebody famous using rhyming words.

An interesting fact is that Clerihew Poems were invented in 1905 by Edmund Clerihew Bentley, who wrote humorous rhymes on many people making fun of their names.

I liked doing this Summer Learning Journey task because I found rhyming the words a little tricky and had fun writing the lines of the poem.