Students crafted visual and then poetic Exquisite Corpses! It’s a great way to work with one line at a time, which was the goal! Afterward, they were challenged to create a clay figure of one of their collective group drawings! Below are some of the group poems created. Students created topics around which to craft their surprising poems, which unfold as you see below, with the poetic line preceding the new writing invisible to the group of writers crafting the poem until the entire whimsical work is revealed at the end of the process. It all is meant to be quite playful! And the students leaned into that!
Lesson Note: Cadavre exquis (exquisite corpse) is a collaborative writing and drawing approach first used by surrealist artists to create bizarre and intuitive drawings.
Mrs. Wright, 7th Grade –Group 1
Untitled Food Exquisite Corpse
by Brian Y., Jaxon M., Jiajine M.
Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, that chicken is so good!
Boy. That chicken is so tuff!
Yummy chicken when fried.
Its noise woke me up.
Ms. Wright, 7th Grade–Group 2
Food Is What I Need Right Now: An Exquisite Corpse
by Wanzhi Z., Maiaiya W., Janet C., Dathne C.
The bodice of fresh white rice wrapped in a dress
of seaweed
I like eating eggs and rice
I love McDonald’s Chicken Nuggets!
1, 2, 3, 4 . 4 dollars for Bobba Tea.
