Poetry day

Poetry today was really great. I enjoyed Jayne's lesson on the color poem. I liked the concept of the pre-write form listing words or phrases about the color. Although my poem was not as good as I would have liked, I did like the fact that she gives her students the option to change it, re-arrange it, or do it on a color they like better. Options are always nice. I also liked that she gave a template for the poem. I think that could be very beneficial to students having difficulty in thinking up an idea or how to structure their poem.

Then this afternoon having the speaker present on poetry was also great, because we were already in that mode. Dr. Rice gave lots of samples and the list of things she provided will be very beneficial as well. I liked that she gave samples of poets reading/performing their poetry, and the Dead Poets CD was really great too. I never really thought about using poetry as a break before, but I think it could be really good to do in my math classes. I thought of that this morning in the teaching demo as well. I could have students write poems about a math topic or do a math concept as a song to give them a break from the stress we all feel from "THE TEST".
Overall, I thought today was very refreshing.