This week I spent my first major time on poetry of the semester. I was hoping to that my last few weeks were going to prepare me for questions from the class. We spent 20 minutes just working on a sign inverntory, which went quite well. The students were more than willing to break down a poem before we got close to ascertaining meanings. The students were involved and it was good to see that they were actually engaged in a peom we were reading. We are going to spend a little more time on Monday with more poems and I hope it goes as well.
I found when you break the information the students respond better to the exercise. I'm really excited to see if this continues as we spend more time on poetry. I'm going to have them do some imatations on Tuesday. Hopefully, they can take there all the information and start to flesh out their own poetry.
Which poem did you inventory?
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