Hello Taylor! I really loved your lesson about the importance of placement, space, emphasis, and punctuation in poetry! I can see myself teaching the exact same lesson in my future! We came up with a happy, silly poem in the shape of a balloon, yet when read in its normal construction it was a creepy, haunting poem! Your activity and poem choice were perfect, and effectively made the point you were trying to make: meaning can be drastically changed by altering construction. The only suggestion I have (and its a small one) be to have gotten rid of the chairs. When we were constructing the poem it might have helped if we got up and walked around the table. I almost did a few times so that I could see better. Movement around the table may have also injected a little more energy into the group too. Again, this is a ridiculously minor suggestion. Your teaching was a complete success and a blast to participate in! Great job!
I really enjoyed participating in your lesson. It was really fun and I, along with everyone else (I think), got the point that poems change in meaning depending on how words are arranged. I think that your lesson was paced really well, too. If you were to teach this lesson again, I would have printed the words out a lot bigger- I think it would have made it easier for the group to work with the poem. I did enjoy the poem that you chose, though. You did a good job explaining why E. E. Cummings was an exemplar to look at when examining poem word formation. I think the poem peaked everyone’s interest and encouraged us all to look at it in many different ways. Nice job!
Hello Taylor! I really loved your lesson about the importance of placement, space, emphasis, and punctuation in poetry! I can see myself teaching the exact same lesson in my future! We came up with a happy, silly poem in the shape of a balloon, yet when read in its normal construction it was a creepy, haunting poem! Your activity and poem choice were perfect, and effectively made the point you were trying to make: meaning can be drastically changed by altering construction. The only suggestion I have (and its a small one) be to have gotten rid of the chairs. When we were constructing the poem it might have helped if we got up and walked around the table. I almost did a few times so that I could see better. Movement around the table may have also injected a little more energy into the group too. Again, this is a ridiculously minor suggestion. Your teaching was a complete success and a blast to participate in! Great job!
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ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed participating in your lesson. It was really fun and I, along with everyone else (I think), got the point that poems change in meaning depending on how words are arranged. I think that your lesson was paced really well, too. If you were to teach this lesson again, I would have printed the words out a lot bigger- I think it would have made it easier for the group to work with the poem. I did enjoy the poem that you chose, though. You did a good job explaining why E. E. Cummings was an exemplar to look at when examining poem word formation. I think the poem peaked everyone’s interest and encouraged us all to look at it in many different ways. Nice job!