This results in my not having to teach each sonnet one by one and students actually enjoying the challenge of figuring it out on their own. When we do Shakespeare’s sonnets, I assign each group one sonnet, and they turn it into a simplified version for children using a set of illustrations provided by an online storybook generator. Thank you for supporting my blog! Fun poetry activities for high school and middle school students: Turn a sonnet into a storybook:
Once you experience a few fun poetry activities, suddenly both reading and writing poetry becomes a lot more enjoyable for everyone! But as I’ve grown to learn, poetry doesn’t have to be stuffy, boring, or traditional. To be honest, I’ve not always been a big poetry fan either, so I can relate. Sure, there are a select few of the artsy types that get into it, but most students are not fans. Peter students, and showed the power that poetry can have to unite groups of people.It has been my experience that most secondary students don’t enjoy poetry. It was a wonderful experience for all involved, an example of the true community of the St. The Poetry Slam was an excellent occasion to display the equal parts talent and character of the St. 6th grader Annabelle Pchola won the spoken word category with her poem “Pain. The students did a phenomenal job, showing poise, talent, and confidence as they presented their poems with vulnerability and courage.ħth grader Colten Hilgers won for the previously published category where he performed the poem “On Quitting” by Edgar Guest. Participants in the spoken word category were Annabelle Pchola, Caleb Bialeschki, Kaitlyn Stoeckel, Abby Homoly, and Grayson Atienza. Participants in the previously published category were Thea Bond, Ava McQuade, Julia Pedersen, June Fay, and Colten Hilgers. The students presented their poems in front of the middle school and 5th-grade students. The participants could choose to use the previously published poem that they had memorized for class or memorize and perform their original, spoken word poems. Each student in middle school had the chance to participate for prizes and extra credit in class.
POEMS FOR MIDDLE SCHOOLERS MAC
Students were not able to use notes to assist with this presentation.Īll of this culminated in a Poetry Slam held in the MAC on Thursday, April 29.
Another assignment was to memorize and present a previously published poem by another author.
After the students saw many examples of this type of poetry online, they created their poems, practiced and evaluated each other, and then presented them in class. A spoken word poem is an original poem that shares a message and is meant to be more personal and performed in front of an audience. One of the assignments was to write a spoken word poem. Through poetry, the students have been vulnerable, funny, caring, and supportive of each other through each step of the process. Ryg, have been learning about poetry in class – both writing and analyzing poems. Peter’s middle school ELA and Lit students, taught by Mrs. Poetry has the uncanny ability to take a class and turn them into a community.
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