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Monday, April 25, 2016

Found Poems

With all of the state testing lately, I decided to do something with students that was more creative. Seventh and eighth graders wrote poems based on the content we were learning. Seventh graders wrote about the War of 1812. Eighth graders created poems about the 1920s. I gave students a rubric and showed examples of what found poems could look like. We worked on these poems for three days in both English and Social Studies. One huge concern of students was writing the poem. We heard a lot of "I can't write poems", but we assured students that poems don't have to rhyme. They were free to write any kind of poem they liked. We found that they worked very hard and really took pride in their work.
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