EDRG 3321 Wed. Night - Chapter 5

This class was really interesting, and I really enjoyed watching the videos that professor Picket showed us. I like poetry, but I really never had a strong understanding of it was not very good at writing poetry. When I was in school everyone said that poetry always had to rhyme and I think that is why I had some trouble with it. If figured my toughts and ideas didn't rhyme so why should poetry that I write always have to rhyme.

Something that I liked was the idea of doing poetry posters in the classroom, and I really liked the ones used as examples from the power point. I also liked the fact that we should let children write about what they know. I think that this is one of the best things to do, because they will be more familiar with what they are writing about than if you gave them an assigned topic. I know that having an assigned topic to write a poem on was always something that gave me trouble when I was in school.

Something else I liked was the playground chants, and the poetry hunts, slams and the poetry cafe. I like how professor Pickett gave examples of how you could do a poetry cafe in the classroom and I think it would be something I would like to try in my future classroom.