What is Poetry? Warm up Directions: 1. Watch What is Poetry?, and use it to help you define poetry. 2. Add 2-3 ideas from the video to your "Poetry/Not Poetry\" table below. 3. Now that you have come up with a full definition of poetry, re-visit the table and revise any answers where you have changed your mind. Directions: Ma ke a set of rules/definitions that describe all poems. Then, explain what disqualifies something as being poetry. Poetry Not Poetry Rules/denitions for poetry: What things can disqualify something as being poetry? Is this Poetry? Directions: Open the resource \"Entry Event: Is this poetry?\" As you review each artifact, use your knowledge ofthe features of poetry to determine whether or not the artifact is poetry. Explain why or why not. YOU ONLY NEED TO COMPLETE 4!!! Description of Artifact Is this Poetry? Reason 1 l 2 l . l . l . l . . Exit ticket #1: What is poetry? Define poetry in your own words. What qualies as poetry? What doesn't? Write three complete sentences. Exit Ticket #2: Who decides? Directions: In the space below, answer the following questions. 1. Who gets to decide what qualifies as poetry and what does not qualify? Who has decided this in our history, in our culture, and/or in our classrooms? Explain. 2. Do you think it should be this way? If not, who should decide what qualifies as poetry