Introduction:
Your first assignment is to create a poem in your target language. Blaz (2002) refers to the five-line poem as a “diamond” poem, while other professionals identify it as a “cinquain,” referring to the number of lines. The goal of this assignment is to practice using a beginning level activity for Standard 1.3 that could be used in one of your internship classes and possibly be incorporated into your unit plan. Although the assignment appears fairly simplistic, requiring only five lines that incorporate specific vocabulary, the cognitive dimension is a bit more challenging.

Goal:
To practice using a beginning level activity for Standard 1.3 that can be used in one of your internship classes.

Objective:
Students will be able to demonstrate knowledge of descriptive vocabulary by creating a diamond poem.

Directions:
Use the following format to create a description of a noun of your choice, either a person, a place, or a thing. Write a brief paragraph explaining how your Diamond Poem connects to a lesson or topic that you have covered or will cover in your internship. Also, explain how you would connect this activity to one of the Pathwise domains.

Guidelines:
       Line 1 = 1 noun
       Line 2 = 2 adjectives
       Line 3 = 3 verbs
       Line 4 = a phrase or a sentence
       Line 5 = another noun, either a synonym or an antonym of the original noun

Your final project
should appear on the page in the shape of a diamond as shown in the example below. You create the diamond shape by controlling the length of the text in each line.

Resource:
Blaz, D. (2002). Bringing the Standards for foreign language learning to life. Larchmont, N.Y.: Eye on Education.

Life is crazy and meaningful at once. And when we do not laugh over the one aspect and speculate about the other, life is exceedingly drab, and everything is reduced to the littlest scale. There is then little sense and little nonsense either. When you come to think about it, nothing has any meaning, for when there was nobody to think, there was nobody to interpret what happened. Interpretations are only for those who don't understand; it is only the things we don't understand that have any meaning. Man woke up in a world he did not understand, and that is why he tries to interpret it.
      — C. G. Jung, The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious, 1959