April is National Poetry Month and of course I wanted to do something with the students for poetry. I wish I had some amazing technology tool or something cool like that to do with poetry (I always feel a little in the dark when it comes to that), but I did get to use my ipads which made me happy. So, I borrowed an assignment I had seen before and did book spine poetry with the students. Yesterday I had a 7th grade team in and the students had about 15 minutes to find their books and create a poem with them. I will say shelving all of those books super-sucked, but it was worth it. The kids were really excited.
Things I will do differently tomorrow and next year!
Set a timer: I did not do this with first hour and it was a HUGE mistake. They really took forever and then got a little crazy. I always gave my high schoolers a timer, so I'm not sure what I was thinking there.
Tone: I'm thinking you could definitely do something with tone here. And, I might have them decide what their poem means to them.
My two favorites are posted on here. One was super clever, and the other I thought was really funny. I hope they were trying to be funny!!
I'm still trying to think of a few good ideas for poetry in the library...
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