Collaborative+Poems

__ **Writing a collaborative poem** __
 * __STEPS:__ using comments tab on the top right**
 * ** Be polite and appropriate. **
 * 1) introduce yourselves to your partners (first names only)
 * 2) Decide on a perspective for your poem:(former slave, former slave owner, abolitionist, Confederate war hero, Union war hero, etc...)
 * 3) Decide on the tone: (angry, sad, excited, etc...)
 * 4) Decide on your audience: (from the reconstruction era)
 * 5) Decide on the topics to cover from the list: 6 items
 * 6) Write your poem together using all of the required poetic language (metaphor, simile, alliteration, personification)
 * 7) Decide on a title for the poem

Reconstruction Ten Percent Plan Thirteenth Amendment Freedmen’s Bureau Andrew Johnson || **Section 2** Black Codes Radical Republicans Civil Rights Act of 1866 Fourteenth Amendment Reconstruction Acts impeachment Fifteenth Amendment || **Section 3** Hiram Revels Klu Klux Klan Compromise of 1877 poll tax segregation Jim Crow laws Plessy v. Ferguson sharecropping ||
 * CONTENT It Must Include/Reference: At least 6 items form the list below **
 * ** What would the person say, or feel, about each event you choose so their audiences feels their message? (in the form of a poem). **
 * || **Section 1**
 * It must include: (Poetry Musts) **
 * 1. ** **Metaphor** ** : direct comparison **
 * 2. ** **Simile** ** : comparison using like or as **
 * 3. ** **Alliteration** ** : repetition of the same sound **
 * 4. ** **Personification** ** : giving human traits to inanimate objects **

__ **Samples** __
 * 1. Segregation is slavery redefined. **
 * 2. Poll taxes were like invisible handcuffs keeping us from influence and equality. **
 * 3. Andrew Johnson: the slithering serpent stalks silently for spoils. **
 * 4. The black codes screamed at us, "Stay in the shadows!" **