Today’s poetry resource is one that is not just for poetry. It is something that our students need when they do any kind of writing. Today’s resource is, at times, precious. It is TIME TO WRITE. This was the fourth week of April as far as my poetry lessons were concerned. The first week I […]
Poetry Month: day 13
When in need of new poetry activities, or poems to share with your students, why not stop by your school library and chat with your teacher-librarian? Poetry in your library will be in the 811s (occasionally in the 819s). Your teacher-librarian will likely have connections to resource-networks outside your school, and at the very least […]
Poetry Month: day 12
Today’s resource is one by our very own Starleigh Grass, who has served on the BCTELA executive a few times and who currently works for FNESC. Starleigh wrote an article about using poetry text sets on social justice themes last year that is worth looking at again. She shares a favourite unit on poetry.org on […]
Poetry Month: day 11
Slam poetry is often generated from a place of core feeling. Not always, of course, but much of the compelling performance and slam poetry to be found online and at local poetry slams seems to originate deep in the speaker’s heart. Because the topics are so close to the speakers, we often hear pieces about […]
Poetry Month: day 9
This week I taught my 6/7s about pantoums. A pantoum is a structured poem, written in quatrains, with the repetition of particular lines creating a morphing effect in the voice. Here is my Pantoum handout. My students were not learning poetry terms with their classroom teachers so at the top of my handout there is […]