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Sean TangeySome good description and examples of poetic forms
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Acrostics encourage interesting line-breaks, show the kids that lines are not just sentences, or thought, but also sound units and fragmentation devises.
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The lune is a simplification of formal haiku. Instead of counting syllables in the three lines, which might make kids overly concerned with the mere mechanics, one counts words: three/five/three, and subject, any mood.
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Thus there's a push toward the knowledge that ideas do not exist without their expressive articulations
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That I once wrote 100 in an evening and by the end of everything I saw or thought registered in my brain three/five/three, and that I told a junior high class this and a girl came back the next day with 120,
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I ask them first to write a poem apologizing for something "bad" they have done, imaginary or real.
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THING POEMS
I talk up the wonders of common but relatively unnoticed objects--hand, egg, floor, sky, hair, river, piece of bread--and ask them to write in prose or poetry about one of them. I urge them to get beyond the expectable sentiments that gather about familiar things
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Alexis KrystenWritten by a poet - ideas for using different poetry forms with students
poetry language_arts english writing poetry_writing poets.org
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Lynne CroweWritten by a poet - ideas for using different poetry forms with students
poetry language_arts english writing poetry_writing poets.org
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