Poets & Writers

This is a group for those who teach many genres of writing with a special emphasis on the poetic part of our teaching.

  • Nicole

    A haiku for today:
    (This reminds me of mornings in NYC...top bad it's not June yet.)

    Freeway overpass--
    Blossoms in grafitti on
    fog-wrapped June mornings

    By: Michael R. Collings
  • Wisdom

    Sometimes you just need a little Emily Dickinson...

    It's all I have to bring today –
    This, and my heart beside –
    This, and my heart, and all the fields –
    And all the meadows wide –
    Be sure you count – should I forget
    Some one the sum could tell –
    This, and my heart, and all the Bees
    Which in the Clover dwell.
  • Ryan Goble

    FYI: Hey over in the American Lit group I posted a bunch of Poe "The Raven" resources.
  • Ryan Goble

    If you rock Shakespeare - a post went out today in the Shakespeare group that needs your awesome ideas - check out Ideas on making "Julius Caesar" POP?
  • Eric Kursman

    Hi all! Had this idea when I was running out the door yesterday morning -- what about using mashups/remixes to help supplement teaching Found/Collage Poetry?

    Take DJ Earworm's remix of Billboard's top pop songs from 2009:


    Any ideas of what poems in particular would work well with this?
  • Dana Waschitz

    Hey all! So I have to start a Poetry unit to my 10th grade English class and the first lesson is poetry terms that students need to know...I was asked to do a list of 20 Selected Poetry Terms. I was asked to have the kids define them by looking them up in the text and then have them give an example of each, but I think thats kind of basic and boring...does anyone have any suggestions how to spice this up a bit? They are words like Simile, metaphor, speaker, end-stop, ballad, literal, figures of speech, etc...maybe through music or magazines or something more fun?? ... :) Thanks! -Dana
  • Ryan Goble

    Hey Dana, I posted this over in music as well.

    I actually have a great activity for you to teach lit terms in a fun way - it is two bucks over at the Mindblue store - it is called the Lit Term Game (it is a close relative of the Album Cover Game.

    If you decide to pick one or both of those up here's a not so top secret link to a bunch of easy-to-print album covers FOR EDUCATIONAL USE ONLY!

    Hope these help!!

    RRG:)
  • Ryan Goble

    Hey Bob - thanks for hipping us to your project! for some reason your e-mail is going totally mental as I've gotten like 5 copies of it. No biggie, just thought you'd like to know.

    Since you're doing work with film and visual literacy you might also let folks in the Teach w/ Moving Images group know about your work!

    Very exciting to hear all the short film resources are useful to you!

    RRG:)
  • Kelly Farrow

    Two great groups you might be interested if you serve an urban population or have lots of kids who enjoy Street Lit:
    http://phatfiction.wikispaces.com/ - A great Street Lit wiki
    http://www.linkedin.com/groups?mostPopular=&gid=3190483 - A LinkedIn group for those interested in Street Lit
  • Jane Roberts

    To have students connect to literary terms have them consider song lyrics as poetry. Bring in some song lyrics and have students work in groups to find examples of terms.
    A colleague used GLEE to teach literary elements and it was a huge success.
    I have used the cartoon Phineas and Ferb to illustrate literary terms too.
  • Shirley Durr

    Received a message from Brandi via the Poets and Writers group but couldn't find her question linked here where I was told to find it. What's wrong?
  • Ryan Goble

    I told Brandi to post it up above in the forum so folks could give her feedback - hopefully she will!