[etni] fw: 12th grade "Poetry Festival" - part 1

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Subject: 12th grade "Poetry Festival" - part 1

The first part of the "Poetry Festival" was wonderful.

I decided to bring printouts of about 20 poems (And not to bring poetry books and let them choose from the
books) so it would be more focused. The poems were by
Shakespeare, A.A. Milne, Sandburg, Whitman, Dickinson,
Blake, Frost and some other less-known poets. Some were ones I got to know at the CLASS course from the
American Embassy (highly recommended!!!).

We did this in a double lesson. The kids formed groups
of 2 or 3. I put 2 desks together and spread all the poems out. Each group chose a poem (some needed my help
here) . Then they read it, and started to plan the presentation.

I was very happy to see that they noticed a lot of
literary forms (not just rhyme and rhythm, but also
repetition, metaphors and more...). They enjoyed it !!
I walked around the room and listened and helped as
needed. When asked, they said that this was more
interesting than the whole class studying another poem
and writing an essay or something like that. AND - they will all be exposed to about 10 poems!

I am attaching the instruction sheet they received (and am sure David will put it up on ETNI).
www.etni.org/teachers/sara/PresentationPoem.doc

More to come - after the presentations!

Thanks to all the wonderful ETNIens who advised me and
helped plan this!
sara g
sara g in israel
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