Term 3 08 Reflections #2: Poetry
Posted by Jamin Lietze on September 30, 2008
The W.A.L.Ts (We Are Learning To) for our Poetry unit this Term were:
- Write a poem using similes to support and emphasise your message.
- Write an acrostic poem using alliteration.
- Write a palindrome poem using onomatopoeias.
- Write a cinquain poem using verbs, adjectives and nouns correctly.
- Recite our poems fluently and with expression to our buddy class.
Yellow Hat Thinking (Positive Reflections):
- Finding Poetry examples on the net supported the teaching of new poetry forms.
- The use of visual images on our class W.A.L.Ts (I found these easily using a ‘Google Image’ search)
- Teaching a variety of poems meant that students learnt and experiemented with different poems.
- The students were encouraged to keep an “Ideas Book” which enabled them to run with an idea when it was time to write.
- Sharing our poems with our buddy class via a web conference meant that our students had a live audience.
- Recording our spoken poems onto a voicethread meant that others could listen and our successful poems were celebrated!
What have you done to make your poetry units successful?
What other ICT tools could be used to enhance a unit like this?
October 17th, 2008 at 7:23 pm
Tēnā koe Jamin!
I am so absorbingly interested in your class site on poetry.
I write poetry – began writing not quite 20 years ago – and was quite naive about the ’state’ of poetry in the world at that time, having never read much nor studied more of poetry since I left high school in 1965.
To find words like alliteration and onomatopoeia being used about poetry today shocks me back over 40 years. I thought that it had all been left behind in the last part of 20th century.
Ka kite
from Middle-earth
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