Task one
Homework: Choose a writing exercise from Poetry Everywhere or I Never Told Anybody that you would consider using in an outreach lesson, and complete it.
Task 2 HE#9: Find a Poem, Write a Prompt It′s getting exciting now!
Step 1: Scour The Academy of American Poets (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site., the Poetry Foundation (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site., Poetry 180 (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site., or Poetry Out Loud (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. to find a new poem you actually like and would like to share with your outreach population. If you find several poems, bookmark them and save for future lessons (and/or share with your friends on social media!).
Step 2: Spend some time with this poem. Read it. Read it again. Read it to someone else. Think about why you like/understand this poem and what makes it tick. Look at how it is arranged. Look at the images, the music/rhythms, the pacing, the speaker′s perspective.
Step 3: Pretend you are teaching this poem and write a prompt for it!
Step 4: Complete the prompt you wrote (modifying the prompt if you discover it needs to be tweaked).
Step 5: Post your prompt and your own poem (responding to the prompt you wrote) here, to Canvas.
Use links 1. http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/browse
3. http://www.loc.gov/poetry/180/
4. http://www.poetryoutloud.org/poems-and-performance/find-poems
Task three Homework Exercise #10: Outreach Preparation V Read the prompts, ″Name-Letters Stories″ to ″′Word Pairs,″ in Poetry Everywhere (p. 134-252). Then, create a collective reading reflection on these lessons, answering the following: Summarize your 1. favorite assignments in a few sentences; 2. Identify and explain why particular lessons would work best as an opener, a full lesson, a filler, or a closer; 2. Identify which age groups these lessons are best suited for. How could one adapt them to another age group? 3. Which lessons are most likely to engage participants? 4. What challenges do you predict with any of these lessons? 5. Could you link any of these lessons with a particular poem we’ve studied in class or that you have come to love on your own 6. What other ideas do you have to improve these lessons to make them your own?
Book: Poetry Everywhere: Teaching Poetry Writing in School and in the Community, Collom & Noethe
Tasks 4 Homework 11 Read the prompts from pages 61-228 of I Never Told Anybody (167 pages) & Pages 11-223 of The Adventures of Dr. Alphabet (212 pages). Then, create a collective reading reflection on these lessons, answering the following: Summarize your favorite assignments in a few sentences; Identify and explain why particular lessons would work best as an opener, a full lesson, a filler, or a closer; Identify which age groups these lessons are best suited for. How could one adapt them to another age group? Which lessons are most likely to engage participants? What challenges do you predict with any of these lessons? Could you link any of these lessons with a particular poem we’ve studied in class or that you have come to love on your own What other ideas do you have to improve these lessons to make the Books: I Never Told 1. Anybody: Teaching Poetry Writing to Old People, Koch 2. The Adventures of Dr. Alphabet: 104 Unusual Ways to Write Extra notes: separate each task by labeling them task one, task two, and ect..