This first week back the Grade 7 students started their Poetry Unit. The focus is on learning about the various forms of poetry and the styles in which poets express their points of view and feelings.
As part of their discovery, the students worked on Acrostic poems expressing information about themselves. The students were challenged to change the traditional form by making the Acrostic into a statement or question. The students had learned about poetic licence and began playing with the form to see how they could make the acrostic more complex.
At the end of the week, the students were introduced to the cinquain by Kenn Nesbitt, US poet laureate of children’s poetry. I wish we could have interacted with him directly; instead, the students watched a tutorial video and followed Mr. Nesbitt’s instructions to collaborate with a friend to write a cinquain poem about a topic they both feel passionate about. The poems ranged in topics from popcorn to Fortnite to love for the Rubik’s cube!
Here are some of their poems:
