How can we bring poetry to life? How do we use inferencing to write and interpret poetry? How do we write a poem? This residency is team-taught; Ms. Kerrigan teaches the drama and the classroom teacher teaches the poetry forms such as diamante, quintain, haiku, and free verse. Students engage in dramatic, imaginative activities that provide sensory-kinesthetic experiences that give the impetus to write poems using sensory details, descriptive language, and figures of speech. They practice performing their poems aloud with expression and movement.
Curricular Connections
English Language Arts Reading 3.01 Respond to fiction, nonfiction, poetry, & drama using interpretive, critical & evaluative processes by... considering main character's point of view, participating in creative interpretations... Writing: 4.01 read aloud...; 4.02 Use oral and written language to: present information...; 4.03 Share written and oral products in a variety of ways...; 4.07 Compose a variety of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, & drama...; 4.09 Produce work that follows the conventions of particular genres...
What third grade students said about this residency:
"Mime totally rocks!"
"I learned that using mime and body language helps people to understand our poem better."
"My favorite things were focusing on something to show that it is actually there and how you taught us to see from a different point of view with the robots and puppets."
"Now my inferring skills are much better."
"It was so very fun. Can you try to come to 4th grade next year? Then 5th. ...Do you teach Middle School?"
