Learning Log 1

First of all, I want to say I enjoyed the lesson because it was fun, doing in groups to create the Cinquain. Coming to know that this year for Literature, we are going to do drama was kind of surprising. I was happy that it wasn’t like last year, reading the book and more paperwork, because I didn’t do as well on it.

For the lesson, we learned about Cinquain. Cinquain basically means “five-line poem”. It is a French word with the word “cinq” as a meaning of ‘five’. To write a cinquain, even though we can choose whatever topic to write about, we must always follow the rule.

>The rule is:

Line 1 is the Title (One word)

Line 2 is the Descriptions of the topic (Two words)

Line 3 is the Actions that is related to the topic (Three words)

Line 4 is the Feelings related to the topic (Four words)

Line 5, which is the last line, is the Reflection on the title (One word)

>An example of a Cinquain would be:

Knights

Armour ,shields

Fighting, charging, slaughtering

Worried, delighted, brave, fearsome

Crusaders

I have done some research on Cinquain also. The cinquain form was invented by the American poet Adelaide Crapsey, inspired by Japanese haiku and tanka. In her 1915 collection titled Verse, published one year after her death, Crapsey included 28 Cinquains. Lines generally do not rhyme. The Crapsey cinquain has subsequently seen a number of variations by modern poets, including:

Variation	Description
Reverse cinquain	a form with one 5-line stanza in a syllabic pattern of two, eight, six, four, two.
Mirror cinquain	a form with two 5-line stanzas consisting of a cinquain followed by a reverse cinquain.
Butterfly cinquain	a nine-line syllabic form with the pattern two, four, six, eight, two, eight, six, four, two.
Crown cinquain	a sequence of five cinquain stanzas functioning to construct one larger poem.
Garland cinquain	a series of six cinquains in which the last is formed of lines from the preceding five, typically line one from stanza one, line two from stanza two, and so on.
Didactic cinquain (The one we are learning)	The first line is a one-word title, the subject of the poem; the second line is a pair of adjectives describing that title; the third line is a three word phrase that gives more information about the subject; the fourth line consists of four words describing feelings related to that subject; and the fifth line is a single word synonym from line one.

Hopefully in the future, group works will continue during Literature lesson and everything we learn would be as interesting as Cinquain! :)