Slice of Life Challenge Day 29
Passion is energy. It’s the power that comes from focusing on what really excites you. When we live with enthusiasm, we fully engage our brains and bodies in our activities, building new pathways that foster health and wellbeing. –Oprah and Deepak, 21 Day Meditation Challenge
I am looking forward to the month of April. Don’t you just love the sound of the word, “April?” I love poetry. Actually some people (namely my husband) think I am obsessed. I can’t help sharing this enthusiasm, passion, obsession with my students. And what better time to celebrate poetry than the month of April! National Poetry Month
Last year I decided to teach a poetry form for every letter of the alphabet. It was a challenge to find one to fit each letter. However, with state testing taking one week, and spring break another, we ran out of days before letters. I want to do this again. I have discovered so many new forms from the triolet to the rondelet, and even a clogyrnach. We will try ghazals and pantoums, sonnets, and ekphrasis. See an alphabetized list on Poets.org.
I plan to continue our Slice of Life blog page for posting poems each day. If you or your class would like to follow us, click here.
I will write alongside my students as I always do and share the results with you here on my blog. I have joined the kidlitosphere progressive poem. See the schedule in my sidebar.
Shh, don’t tell, but we plan to post poems all around the school, secret poems, so we can have everyone reading poems throughout their day.
I am still toying with ideas for a final product. Last year we transformed old books into our own poetry books using a technique called altered books.
Do you have any plans? ideas?
If you teach 7th-10th grade, your students can participate in the Dear Poet Project.
National Poetry Month
Poems will echo in the halls,
be pasted on walls,
carried in pockets,
and shared out loud.Listen to the words
of Naomi Shihab Nye.
Rhyme silly with Shel Silverstein.
Rap with Nikki Giovanni
and imagine like Jane Yolen.It’s a national phenomenon,
this month of poem fun.
Come on in!
The writing’s fine!
Join Mary Lee at A Year of Reading for more Poetry Friday
Reflections on the Teche 