Biopoem For Pride and Prejudice

Purpose: This strategy can be used as part of the assignment menu and as a class activity. It will help students synthesize their learning about one of the characters in the novel. The Biopoem follows a pattern that makes it easier for beginning writers to complete as they play with ideas. This strategy should be used later in the novel once the students know more about the characters.

Directions:

Line 1. First name Line

2. Four traits that describe the character.

Line 3. Relative (brother, sister, daughter, etc.) of _________

Line 4. Lover of _______ (list three things or people).

Line 5. Who feels_________(three items)

Line 6. Who needs ___________(three items)

Line 7. Who fears ____________ (three items)

Line 8 Who gives _____________ (three items)

Line 9. Who would like to see _____________ (three items)

Line 10. Resident of _____________-

Line 11. Last name

Example

Pearl
Her mother's only treasure: beautiful, brilliant, glimmering
Daughter of Dimmesdale and Hester
Lover of laughter, light and mother
Who feels fury, passion, and magic
Who needs to experience grief, to become human, to learn sympathy
Who fears nothing, never, null
Who gives love, torment, and joy
Who would like to see Dimmesdale on the scaffold in the daylight, Dimmesdale live, and her mother explain the truth about
The Scarlett Letter
Resident of Boston
Bastard