User:Jesse Groppi/Lessons


 * Photograph Paragragh
 * Which prose is from a poem?
 * What your grandmother's grammar teacher did for poetry
 * Words, like Legos
 * Design a flash app that performs like magnetic poetry, allows for multiple users in same instance, allows for creation of new blocks and grouping of blocks
 * Who do I know that can program in Flash?
 * Is there an opensource Flash design programme?
 * Poetry's tacklebox: punctuation
 * series? words, rhyme (maintain the metaphor)
 * Last line challenge
 * Famous challenge to all students (And the hippos were boiled in their tanks.)
 * Everyone creates their own last line and each student draws one from a hat.
 * resource
 * blackboard extra credit
 * First student to get to class and finish writing a no more than ten line poem gets EC
 * Write poems that emphasises the types of words or punctuation
 * Each line starts with a pronoun
 * each line ends in an exclamation point or question mark
 * ELEMENTARY Why & Because, or If you & Be sure
 * One student creates a pair, then mix them up and read them
 * Poems for teaching: list at poets.org