I have two words for you: Shane Koyczan. You may remember him from a lunch-time salon at a BCTELA conference a few years ago, or you might have seen him preform at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics. Shane Koyczan is a BC spoken word artist, poet, and author. He has won a number of slam poetry […]
Poetry Month: day 3
Have you heard of Poetry in Voice / Les voix de la poesie? It’s a recitation contest for Canadian high school students. They have a useful teachers’ page with lesson ideas and link to other resources. Speaking poetry aloud can completely change the way students can access poetry. I just saw that this year’s national […]
April: Full of Poetry!
We have written posts for Poetry Month in the past but this year we are going to do it a little differently. We will be making a poetry-themed post every school day in April. Sometimes it will be a resource, sometimes it will be a great piece that might serve to inspire our writers (and […]
Writing Poetry by Susan Stenson
Before Eve left the garden, she tugged Adam’s sleeve and said, One more, one more. You would think it was the pomegranate branch she wanted, the round, drab bush dribbling myth above a tedious brook or to retrieve a copy of The Temptation of Baghdad,
Cultivating Passionate Learners
Do you have some great strategies, units, ideas to share? Present at our Annual Provincial Conference this Fall, October 24-26, in Coquitlam, British Columbia. Our theme this year is Cultivating Passionate Learners. If you are interested, the deadline is coming fast – February 21, 2014. Please send submissions to Shelley Moore at smoore@sd38.bc.ca achat viagra […]