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Eight poem ideas for high school students

Poetry: It’s what the world needs now. Choose from these 8 poem ideas for high school students.

Posted byMarilyn YungNovember 30, 2020November 30, 2020Posted inCreative Writing, Headline poetry, Poetry Lessons, Writing InstructionTags:Creativity, Education, High school, Poems for Kids, Poetry2 Comments on Eight poem ideas for high school students

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Poetic art! This was a new idea my poetry class recently tried. The task: find a poem you love, choose your favorite line, depict it in a creative way without using pencil or pen on paper. The point is to recreate the line with materials that reflect the meaning. I made this example using Frost’s Mending Wall. Click the link in my bio for more info.

Trying out @taylor_mali’s #metaphordice. Planning to use the dice with my new poetry class this week… will be posting!

Last spring, I experimented with something new using The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane and here it is: I wanted to introduce my students to literary impressionism by noticing Crane's use of color and then creating a collaborative visual representation of the novel. My bio has a link to a post in my blog with tons of pictures, resources, some background, etc. Each student analyzed two consecutive chapters of the book and then created a representative collage. Here are photos of chapters 7-8 and 15-16, respectively, plus the entire book in last shot. Of course, there are improvements to be made, but this was an interesting first attempt.

I tried #firstchapterfriday all year long! (Okay, we missed a few due to random things.) Something else I tried: tying FCF to my weekly vocabulary mini-lessons on Thursdays. I would find a new word in my first chapter selection ahead of time, teach it on Thursday, and then have fun watching heads pop up around the room when students heard the word as I read aloud the next day. I think I’ll do FCF again next year. Several students told me it was something they looked forward to every week.

Let’s hope enough students sign up for Tsunami: A Poetry Experience, my new poetry class next fall! I want to make it a fun and motivational way to end the day... especially when I roll out the coffee cart to get the juices flowing. (My school has a four-day week, so we have a longer than usual school day and that last hour is l-o-n-g.) What better way to end the day than with some poetry?!

When a student decorates her envelope that will hold her sketchnotes from our end-of-year Gatsby unit. Over the next week or so, we’ll listen to the audio and decorate pages from each chapter of the book. And of course, the 2013 movie will top it off!

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