Two Writing Teachers Slice of Life March Challenge
Poetry Friday round-up is with Linda at Teacher Dance.
Have you thought about found poetry lately? This week my friend Linda Mitchell posted a found/ black out poem on Facebook. A day or two later Janet Wong posted a found poem from an article about the Parkland shooting. These two posts inspired me to try my own.
I’ve been reading aloud Tuck Everlasting to a group of students. Natalie Babbett’s writing is so descriptive and beautiful, so I copied a page from the book and made a black out poem to use as a model poem for my students.
When I shared this with my students as a writing choice, two of my girls chose favorite pages from favorite books to create their own black out poems.
The day was absolutely gorgeous. Highs in the 60’s, sun shining, not a cloud in the sky. Who wants to stay inside?
My science kids are doing projects about plants, so I printed an online article for each of them. We took the articles and clipboards out to the garden to write.
Circling words to create poems, these students enjoyed “finding” poems in nonfiction text. Poetry can be found anywhere!
Jayden’s poem about camellias:
Prized beauty of
exquisite blooms,
splendid evergreen foliage
attractive shrubs
burst into flowers
rest little prodigious garden.
Where will you find a poem today?
Reflections on the Teche 