I remember the excitement, preparing curriculum.
I remember challenging the kids to put thoughts to paper.
I remember parsing words to be succinct.
I remember being gainfully employed.
Teaching writing #1
Natalie Goldberg has written some wonderful book about writing. She uses this prompt.
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* If you need more help in learning about writing poems, or any other genres, read Natalie Goldberg's work. She teaches well. These three I would recommend. Her latest is a reprise of her original ideas, but any one will set you on your way. The last one: Thunder and Lightning, pairs poems with drawings. This, too, engages the artist as well as the writer!
And is this what encouraged you to do a limerick or two today? Loved the rhythm of your lines.
ReplyDeleteI would work with six simple poetic forms like the limerick. Then I would give the kids a chance to try 4 of the six forms. One of my gr 9 boys came in with a very well done ballad. This ballad sounded very much like an adult writer. He admitted that his mom had written the poem.
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That's what I did, too!
ReplyDeleteMy gr. 6 kids came in with a fully-formed, perfect poem written in Ebonics. He was a not-so-swift, white farm kid, who'd never been to Harlem! He copied it from the Internet.
Well done.
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