My Personal Recollection Of Not Being Asked To Prom

Since my high school Creative Writing class will be an elective class that will consist of students in tenth through twelfth grade, I will need to find ways to bring student fun into the learning as much as possible. I have found that students love to eat and socialize, so I will include food, props, and games whenever possible. Difficulty will occur as the norm for class size at my school is thirty-two to thirty-six students, and not all students want to be in the classes where they are assigned. Since a text will not be available for the students, handouts and overhead projections of terminology and examples of writings will be needed. Keeping the class light and the learning fun and engaging at all times will be my goals. Elective classes rely on word of mouth to keep them going year after year. I teach in a fairly conservative community. While …show more content…
Many students may have had similar experience and, after the reading, may feel writing poetry is not as threatening as previously believed. Students will write in their journals their first impression of the poem.
DAY 3 - We will reread "My Personal Recollections of Not Being Asked to Prom" and identify its set-up on the page, the rhyme scheme, enjambment, tone, meter, rhythm and noted irregularities, any multi-syllabic rhymes, connotations of selected words, and alliteration, metaphors, repetition, and irony. We will notice the sentence structure and syntax used in the poem that aids in its clarity. Students will be given a prompt for a poem to complete on their own. This will be due in two class periods] Assessment of poetry - Poetry will be judged on the directions followed. It will be important for the students to believe that each of the poetry prompts and activities given over the course of four-and-a-half weeks are attainable in order to encourage future