Thursday, April 17, 2008. I liked the activities that we did with the group WRITE AROUND. I did that exercise in highschool but only as a free write, but i like the idea of having a goal for each student. Friday, April 11, 2008. I do not like the idea of a confession poem. i find it to be raelly dull, boring and not interactive. Yes, it gives insights into a characters lives, and its an easy way for students to get an assignment for the teacher, but.

Wednesday, April 23, 2008. Professional Development - Bright Ideas Conference. Going to the Bright Ideas Conference really surprised me with the amount of help it offered. I have tried talking to professors and .

Tuesday, February 26, 2008. Sunday, February 24, 2008. Writing a poem, or a creative fictional piece is very different from writing a thesis driven research paper. Therefore its only natural that the revision would be different as well. Well said Barry Gilmore, well said.

Monday, April 7, 2008. One of my favorite aspects of our presentation is that we had a lot of different ways of writing poetry. Most of us choose a poem structure that was less intimidating for students. When introducing poetry, i believe as a teacher, your main goal is to keep it simple to gain appreciation and motivation. The fourth and final poem is a little more complicated and involves. To use personal experiences to write poetry, because. That is what students already know and understand.

Teaching Quotation of the Week. As long as there is. So much as one of me. So much as thirty of them,. Tuesday, April 15, 2008. What an amazing experience! I am glad we were given the opportunity to read our poems before the screening. I like to think that the combined forces of the Campus Poetry Society and Poets Anonymous. Saturday, April 12, 2008.

Friday, April 11, 2008. I thought that the experience our group had teaching about poetry went very well. As a group we looked through the book of 20 poetry writing exercizes and picked ones that interested us and thought would be a good lesson. I really liked the activity where we had to write a poem based off a picture we had. Some of the classmates said they forgot that they were supposed to relate it to communities, and working together in one. But it was great to .