Name:_____________________________

Poetry Café Response Sheet 

Schedule :  
1. Sit at your seat and answer your bellringer
2. You will be released by table to quickly go through the foodline, and place your food
at your desk.
3. We will first listen to the students who are going to read their poems out loud
4. Then you will be able to walk around and read the poems in the gallery.
5. Make sure that you choose three poems to respond to from the gallery.

Instructions for Response Sheet​:  

1. Choose any ​three poems​ to read from the gallery.
2. At any point, you may choose to write a positive message about a poem on a sticky note and put it
on the display.
 
Poem #1​ (Title or First line) ____________________________________________

Type of Poem: __________________________ Write your answers in this column

Choose one word to describe the ​tone

What is their central idea?

Is their ​central idea​ narrow?

What ​types of figurative language​ do you see in

the poem? (metaphor, simile, alliteration,
onomatopoeia)

Word Choice
What descriptive words did the author use?
Did they use specific, and memorable words?
Verbs that show and tell the reader
information?
Adjectives that are thoughtful and descriptive?

What was your favorite line? :)

 
 
 
 
 
 
 Name:_____________________________

Poem #2 ​(Title or First line) ____________________________________________

Type of Poem: __________________________ Write your answers in this column

Choose one word to describe the ​tone

What is their central idea?

Is their ​central idea​ narrow?

What ​types of figurative language​ do you see in

the poem? (metaphor, simile, alliteration,
onomatopoeia)

Word Choice
What descriptive words did the author use?
Did they use specific, and memorable words?
Verbs that show and tell the reader
information?
Adjectives that are thoughtful and descriptive?

What was your favorite line? :)

Poem #3​ (Title or First line) ____________________________________________

Type of Poem: __________________________ Write your answers in this column

Choose one word to describe the ​tone

What is their central idea?

Is their ​central idea​ narrow?

What ​types of figurative language​ do you see in

the poem? (metaphor, simile, alliteration,
onomatopoeia)

Word Choice
What descriptive words did the author use?
Did they use specific, and memorable words?
Verbs that show and tell the reader
information?
Adjectives that are thoughtful and descriptive?

What was your favorite line? :)