How Do You Teach A Poetry Workshop For Middle School Students?
Teaching poetry for kids of any age can be an enjoyable and rewarding experience. If you want to teach a poetry workshop for middle school students, the most important thing is to be aware of the interests your students have and the changes they are going through. Read on to learn more. Start by sharing poetry you have brought. Share poems on a wide variety of topics written in different styles with your students. Your students will have interests all over the place; so you want to make sure to have something that appeals to everyone. Have your students react to the poems they read. Mix informal discussion and writing assignments. Keep everything low pressure. Use this as an opportunity to get your students thinking about poetry while evaluating their interests. Have each student choose a favorite poem and write a reaction to it. The reaction can be a poem written in the same style, a poem responding to some issue the poet has brought up or even an attempt to rewrite the original poem.
