The first step is for students to choose a poem. They go to the Poetry Out Loud website and choose from thousands of available poems. Once they chose their poems, they uploaded them on to Edmodo.
After choosing their poem, the students went back to analyze it for meaning. First, they created a poster that showed the poem on one side, a visual representation on the other, and a summary on the bottom. Several students sid that this helped them to figure out what their poem was about.
Choosing a Poem
Analyze It!
Next, students took their analyzing skills one step further. They wrote their poem on one side of a document and then re-wrote the poem in their own words parallel to the original. This way, students could figure out how to adjust their tone while reciting it.
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