Monday, September 17, 2007

Group Teach Rough Ideas

Essential Questions:

  1. What is poetry?
  2. What is the function of poetry?
  3. Who can write poetry?
  4. What's the difference between poetry and other forms of writing?

Goals:

  1. Students should be able to recognize poetry and feel confident in writing poems.
  2. Students should be able to peer edit other students work in a meaningful and constructive way
  3. Students should be able to interpret poetry

Activities:
What is poetry question- everyone writes one line then is turned into a poem, read round robin.

Have students write a poem

Homework read 4 different poems of differing genres

Peer editing

1 comment:

Lynley Culver said...

Some of the comments from Shannon:
Questions 1,2, and 4 are all similar.
Umbrella question: What is Poetry
Smaller questions: Who can write poetry, what is the function of poetry.
Explore outside the box such as: music and poetry, poetry slams
Homework suggestions: visit certain websites, look at some of the indy teach books.
Each individual needs to be highlighted as leader for some amount of time.