Aim: What creative approaches can be taken to find ideas for writing poetry?
Do Now: Whole class discussion
The Do now asks for the class to share what they like to do, outside of school, when they are not working on assignments. The class shared a lot of responses about their hobbies. Tempest shared that he likes drawing, and Natalie says she prefers to play games. Ms. Peterson then shared her experience of first trying first person shooter games. Kenneth says he likes to play games also, and Christopher also likes playing games, specifically first person shooter games. I find that a lot of the boys like to play gun games as their hobby to pass time. Samantha plays the piano during her free time. This Do now activity is supposed to help us think of things for inspiration for what to write for topics, which will help us when we start writing our own poem.
Poemcrazy: by Susan Goldsmith Wooldridge:
We were told to spirit-read(read as many as we want by ourselves and then someone else picks up) the text. The main thing Ms. Peterson wants us to take from this text that we can take words from everywhere, and even make up words that do not exist to add to her wordpool to help us when writing our own poems.
After this short reading, we watched the video, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKdV5FvXLuI
This video showed Daniel Radcliffe, who raps “Alphabet Aerobics”. This rap is based on words that the first letter is each letter of the alphabet. This video amazed me and showed me the mass of words that can be thought of and used, when writing poems. It showed me many words that I don’t know existed. This relates to the lesson, as it is an example of a really long word pool based on the alphabet.
Team Word Challenge:
We were to find as many synonyms, but only one word for each letter of the alphabet, for the phrase “to walk or move”
In the breakout room, my team and I came up with 10 words as the synonym for the phrase. We came up with:
A: Amble
B: Bolt
C: Charge
D: Dart
F: Float
G: Gallop
M: March
R: Run
T: Traipse
W: Wander
When we came back for class discussion, we were to compare the amount of words we came up for the challenge..We had a small competition on how many words each team had for team points, and the words for the highest teams were in between 13 and 23 words. This activity helps us better understand how to find more words we can use to replace a word to better create rhyme when writing our own poems.
After, we read another text that we had to annotate.
… Image is the root word of imagination. It’s from Latin imago, “picture,” how you see things. Images carry feelings. Saying, “I’m angry,” or “I’m sad,” has little impact. Creating images, I can make you feel how I feel.
When I read the words of a young student named Cari—“I’m a rose in the shape of a heart / with nineteen days of nothing / but the pouncing of shoes on my dead petals”—I experience desperation through her image. Cari doesn’t even have to name the feeling—nineteen days, a pale green sky, a pouch of seed held against a sower’s heart.
We were to annotate words or phrases that stood out to us. I found the words "Creating images, I can make you feel how I feel.” and “ … poems can put us in touch with our own often buried or unexpected feelings.” because I feel that they show some of the reasons that writers would create poems and the true meaning behind them. Poems are like a special language that the author can use to communicate with the reader.
Image Challenge:
We were to choose an image to write a description of it, and also write how that image makes us feel.
In our breakout room, my team had to discuss two questions. For the first question, we had to pick an image from the previous slide and describe it and also describe how it makes us feel. We said that the seagull gave us a sense of the beach and summer, and had a simple description of the actual look of the seagull, with it having a white body and black wing tips. For the second question, we were asked where we can find creative inspirations when writing our own poetry. My group said that for inspiration, I said we can use experiences from events in our life that are meaningful to us, and Muhammad said we can use the things we enjoy in life as inspiration when writing our own poetry.
When we got back with our class discussion, we discussed what we picked.
Team 1: Joseph said their team picked the seagull and that the seagull was a symbol of freedom for them.
Team 2: Kenneth said their team picked the image of the seagull and that it gave them a sense of freedom. He also added that the image of the seagull gave them a feeling of uncertainty because of the danger of the unknown from the image.
Team 3: Joanne and her team picked the image of the Xbox and PS4 because everyone in their group plays games, and that it makes them feel a longing for the games because none of them can afford the games.
Team 5: Alma and her team picked the carnival image and described how the merry-go-round and ferris wheel lightened the night in the image, and gave them a sense of nostalgia, as it gave them a happy, gleeful feeling.
Team 6: Lapyan and his team also picked the carnival image and said it shows off a sense of nostalgia and reminds them of going to the carnival and the happy times there.
This activity allows us to better understand how to draw inspiration from not only words and phrases, but also from images and pictures too.
At the end of the lesson, Ms. Peterson assigned us the homework of creating our own wordpools that we can use when writing our own poems. This will help us when creating our own poems in our “Poem Anthology Project”.
Reflection:
Through today’s lesson, I felt that it changed my view on how inspiration can be used for poem writing, and that they can also be taken from images. The lesson taught us a lot because it was based on helping us clearly know the meaning of and how to use word pools, whether it is understanding how to use words or images. Looking back, all of the activities all contribute to helping us understand the meaning of word pools and how to make one. The Do now question is asking for our hobbies, which we can maybe use as an inspiration for topics for our Poem Anthology Project. The Team Word challenge better practices us for finding words to better build our poems for the Poem Anthology Project. Additionally, the Image Challenge shows us the feelings we can feel from simple images, and how we can incorporate it into our word pool to use as inspiration when writing our poems. Now, I think our description of the seagull was too simple, as it only describes the actual appearance of the seagull, while the other teams described their image in a more figurative kind of way. To sum up, I feel that this lesson successfully prepares us for the inspiration step when writing our own poems in the Poem Anthology Project later on.
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