Poetry
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Create a
school-wide open mic poetry reading. Invite local
poets, teachers, and students to read their original
poems.
Behind the scenes
Clip
pictures out of a magazine. Advertisements work well
because they often contain symbolism and metaphor. Look
past the obvious. What might be going on behind the
scenes? Use your ideas for the beginning of a short
story or poem.
Pull a Poem out of a hat
Students
write adjectives and nouns on slips of paper. Put the
nouns in one hat and the adjectives in another.
Students randomly choose one word from each hat to
create an original poem title (i.e. “Banana Sunrise,”
“The Inconsiderate Shoelace,” “Angry Pencils”).
Recollect the nouns and adjectives and redistribute two
times so that students have three titles to choose
from. Students choose their favorite title and write a
poem.
