All Class Projects

Unit: Poetry

Model:  My Favoritest Poem

2009 Class Projects:     704, 705, 708

It's really important to develop our personal likes and dislikes in poetry.  We want

to write poems in our voice and reading all kinds of poetry can help us find out

what kinds of poems we really love.  (And, of course, what kinds we really don't.)

What's your favoritest poem ever?

We are going to produce a short form film project on our most favorite poem.   Our

project is inspired by Robert Pinsky's national "My Favorite Poem Project".   Students

will learn to respond to poems to ideas and craft of the poem through questions,

personal connections, and informal research.

The project will include:

     iSearch Poetry Project:

          Step 1:  Poetry? (What kind of poetry do you love?  What kind of poetry do you hate?)

          Step 2:  Read a whole mess of poems and respond 

          Step 3:  Collect a group of favorite poems (Anthology) 

          Step 4:  Selecting your most favoritest poem 

     Proposal: What is your poem? Why?

     Final Project Choice Response