I've been thinking for a few hours about teaching poetry in my classroom. Where do we begin? was always my first question. Reading chapter 5 of triggering town gave me some ideas about the contrustion of a poem, which should help me in the classroom. Being a sports writer has made creative writing difficult for me, because I was always worrying about the facts of a story. Now, I have to step outside that box and find new ways to tell the same story.
The chapter focuses on how we can make our poems more intersting, which is something that I need, so my students should suffer the same problem. Instead of tyring to come up with types of poems to write, I think I will start with simple writing exercises and hopefully poems will come out of there. Then, we can move on to learing about the different styles and types of poems. I already feel 1,000% better about teaching poetry, and it has only been a few days in class. Hopefully, I will continue to grow and try new things to reach my students. I really feel that all educators could benefit from taking classes like this, because they are way better than professional learning workshop about learning focused schools.
Look, too, at some of the exercises in Writing Poetry. They begin at ground level. Let me know how it goes, Chris.
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