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Cut Up Poems: Parting action shots!

For a final project, students used magazines and created cut-up poems! They used ‘found language’ and images to create new meanings. Here are some ‘in action’ shots of student hands working away! Teacher: Cavey, […]

“O, Neptune’s stars how did you/ become so bright?”: Out of this World….Poems

Students read a student poem, listened to Robert Frost’s star-themed poem, ‘Choose Something Like A Star,’ that used personification to talk to a star before trying their hands at their own poems addressing something… […]

“I won’t get up/ I can’t/ I won’t get dressed/ I can’t”: Repetition & Routine Poems

We explored the powerful device of Repetition in Phil Kaye’s poem of the same name. Some poems in our workshop are ‘after’ Kaye’s work. Lesson Note: “Repetition can make magic happen-repeat a word or […]

“I saw happiness /not emptiness I felt loved/ not only.”: Meditation and Blackout Poems

Younger students made Blackout Poems, and older students participated in a short meditation and breathing exercise. I read them I Close My Eyes by David Ignatow. After the meditation, they were asked to write […]

“and I don’t know when I’ll be”: Meditation Poems and Free Writes

Students participated in a short meditation and breathing exercise. I read them I Close My Eyes by David Ignatow. After the meditation, they were asked to write whatever came to mind. Classwork was conducted […]

““Wake up”, “Wake up” “Wake up”, “Wake up.:” Repetition Poems

We explored the powerful device of Repetition in Phil Kaye’s poem of the same name. Some poems in our workshop are ‘after’ Kaye’s work. Lesson Note: “Repetition can make magic happen-repeat a word or […]

“I can hear the seafood bubbling” & “My voice is rain to the sky”: Food & Voice Themed Performance Poems!

Younger students wrote food-inspired poems after reading a Nikki Giovanni poem about food! Nikki Giovanni is a well-known African-American poet who used to spend summers with her grandparents in Knoxville, Tennessee, when she was […]

“”My voice is a squirrel with wings: Slam-Style Voice-Themed Poems

Students wrote and performed short group ‘My Voice”-themed slam-style poems after watching a poetry slam teen performance video! Lesson Note: “You don’t need permission to make your art. No one needs an artistic license […]

” I think about other things during school like Netflix Netflix Netflix”: Repetition Poems

We explored the powerful device of Repetition in Phil Kaye’s poem of the same name. Some poems in our workshop are ‘after’ Kaye’s work. Lesson Note: “Repetition can make magic happen-repeat a word or […]

“My voice is disruptive like an intercom announcement.”: Voice-Themed Slam-Style Performance Poems

Students read and then created short group performance pieces of spoken word pieces, some with choreography, after watching a student poetry slam team perform on the importance of one’s voice. Lesson Note: “Do stuff. […]

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