This past week in my CFE the students started out by taking one of the poems that they wrote and making it into a visual piece of poetry. While the students were working on these projects I had my evaluation where I got evaluated as I walked around the room trying to help the students with their projects. On Wednesday we had a gallery walk where we got to see all the final projects and some students even presented their pieces and there was a class vote on the best one. There were many good pieces, that it is hard to even say which one was the winner. Then to end of the week we started to introduce Shakespeare by playing a game. Overall a really great week and I am excited to work with Shakespeare.
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This past week in my CFE the students learned about slam poetry and attempted to write some of their own. To help understand the concept of slam poetry we watched a documentary called Louder Than a Bomb. Now slam poetry can be about many things, but it is typically always about social issues and hardships that personally affect someone. The poems range from things like religion (ex. David Bowden) to relationships (ex. Sarah Kay and Phil Kaye) to depression (ex.Patrick Roche) and many more topics. Since the students were attempting to write their own I decided that I would try my hand at the art as well, because it has been a while since I have written any of my own it isn't all that great so the only place you will hear about it is here. The slam poem I wrote is just a letter to my past self and the person I held naively held close even though they were hurting me. I wrote to the pair telling them how now I see all the pain and destruction they wrought and that I do not hate them, but actually I thank them because now I'm in a far better place. No you will never see or hear this piece, but hey at least I wrote something which means I'm working on my goal of trying to make examples of coursework, not all examples have to be shown. |
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