My So Called Blog, Number Nine Bust a Rhyme

While creating my poem lesson design, I overestimated the amount of enthusiasm students would have for writing poetry. My thought process was as follows: most of these students are beginning writers, so this will their first experience writing poetry, ergo, enthusiasm oozing out their tiny pores. I had even grander delusions of engagement because I thought I was clever enough to introduce poetry hats. I thought the students would see the costume hats and become constructive poets or at least eager learners. Well it turns out that introducing a new type of writing isn’t in and of itself all that exciting and that instituting costume hats as part of the lesson is just another discipline problem waiting to happen. My lesson didn’t totally flop. We completed our poems and even mounted them on construction paper houses. I was just naive in thinking that they would have a natural thirst and excitement for the lesson. Just another part of teaching I need to master before May….