Assignment 4: Find 3 poetry activities I can implement after Thanksgiving

Reading:

Awakening the Heart by Georgia Heard
A teacher's guide to teaching poetry....



1) Work with Noble House and Farnsworth House to create a Living Poetry Anthology. Each kid chooses a poem (one of their own or someone else's) and we place them all around the school.

2) Find a Choral Poem for us to perform

3) Find a poem to read everyday for a week during House
Monday: Read and notice and feel
Tuesday: Illustrate the poem
Wednesday: Create movements to the poem
Thursday: Bring in a personal connection or response to the poem
Friday: Write a poem inspired by this poem

4) Ask kids to search for a self-portrait poem: a poem that reflects their inner feelings

5) Choose a poem and create poetry craft groups to study particular elements: repetition, beginnings and endings, line breaks and stanzas, words, rhyme and music, image

HEY I FOUND FIVE!