Using Your Poetic Voice!
Students in this class can choose the topic of the poem as long as they write one poem a week. The students have two folders: the first folder is called the main folder which consists of random poems by other poets, and the second folder is called the construction folder which consists of poems by the students. Sometimes she picks certain topics as an outline so it’s not difficult to write poems.
When the students receive poems by random poets sometimes they get in groups and act out the poem in front of class. In the first week of the poetry class, Mrs. Thornburg had the students act as poets by using their creativity and wrote quotes on large blank pieces of paper and hung them on the walls around the classroom. “Writing poetry comes easy to me and I really enjoy writing it,” says 7th grader Alondra Rubio.

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