I love poetry! However, students do not love poetry. Our ELA 9 teachers wanted a way to introduced poetry to their students that was interactive.
Students visit all 6 stations. At each station, students find 5 or 6 poems all the same type including Haiku, Limerick, Ode, Sonnet, Free Verse, and Elegy. (So one station has 6 elegy poems and so on.)
At the station, they look for patterns and unique characteristics that stand out about this type of poetry. On the handout (see libguide), students write what they think the rhyme scheme might be and other patterns. After rotating through six stations, they open their Macbooks to the libguide and note the actual elements on the handout.
Students can see if their observation skills were on point by comparing what they observed and the actual elements.
To apply this new knowledge, students will finish a poem. On the walls, we posted the first couple of lines of a poem. Each one from a different type. Students write the final line(s) to the poem and post it on the wall. Students got to finish two poems.
Finally, students voted on the best poems that had the correct elements by adding a sticker. Each student received two stickers to vote.
