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The students in Mrs. Murphy's second grade classroom are pencils-deep in the Poetry Unit. This genre study is designed to help students develop an understanding and appreciation of poetry. The beginning phase of the unit is an immersion into poetry literature. Students read, listen, chant, and coral read a selection of poems by various authors. Through out this exposure we worked on an ongoing chart titled, "Poetry Is..."
Students study all the various elements of poetry, using their noticings to write their own poems.
Early on in the Poetry unit we read and discussed poems about ordinary objects. We realized that some poems were about paper clips or pencils or even chairs! So in small groups of three, students selected an ordinary object in the classroom and wrote their own poems - changing the ordinary into something extraordinary!
Than students observed what poems looked like - specifically "line breaks." The class discussed why poets formed their poems as they did. Why were some lines short and others long? What happens in reading a poem when there is only a word or two in one line verus a complete sentence in the next. So the small groups decided on their line breaks by reading and rereading their poems to get the rhytm and meaning just right.
Here are their finished poems. We hope you enjoy our work!
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