My Poem

Curricular Competencies Reflection

The overall purpose of this poem is to highlight all the reasons why the cucumber is an excellent fruit and why it is my personal favorite and deserves more love. The person I had in mind when writing this poem was my teacher Ms. Khokhar as I wrote it to contain several poetic devices. The personal element that is in my poem is my strong affection for cucumbers as I have listed several reasons for why it is one of my favorites with examples such as it being an excellent snack, as well as being healthy for you. When I first started planning what to write my poem about I landed on cucumbers due to the fact that I was eating one during this process. Shortly after, I began developing ideas on what features I should talk about to describe and landed on that they are great snacks, healthy for you, and refreshing as well as fun to eat. To allow this poem to be engaging as I created a interesting rhyme scheme to keep the readers entertained. For the purpose of integrating imagery I implemented several different lines that hit your senses. These are touch with the cucumber being crisp and watery, taste with it tasting like refreshing water, and sound as you can hear a crunch when you take a bite of the cucumber.

Creative Thinking Core Competency Reflection

I chose the subject of this poem to be a cucumber as it is one of my favorite fruits and I was eating one when I was thinking of what to write about. To form and develop my original ideas I just thought to myself what are some of the great features that make the cucumber an amazing fruit, with them being they are a healthy refreshing snack, and are fun to eat. To help stimulate my imagination I took a cucumber and just stared at it. One of the innovative aspect about my poem is that I created my own rhyme scheme going abccba abccba ddd. If I could improve my poem I would describe the appearance more.