Transcript Awaking the Heart Presentation

“Awaking the Heart”
Exploring Poetry
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Elementary and Middle School
By Georgia Heard
Poetry,Like Bread, Is For Everyone
Study Group Members
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Ms. Camacho
Ms Escalona
Ms. Hale
Ms. Hamblin
Ms. Kluger
Ms. Nicasio-Madera
Ms. Page-Moore
Ms. A. Peguero
Ms. Pagliaro
Ms. Ramos
Ms. Rosario
Ms Reback-Mann
Ms. Scholnick
Ms. Sukenik
Ms. Tovar
Agenda
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Creating a Poetry Environment
Reading and Writing Poems
Crafting Poetry: Toolboxes
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Website: P.S. 28 Poetry Café
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Listening Centers
Listening to the sound of a poem is like laying a
welcome mat in front of the door of Poetry.
Poetry is meant to be heard and listening to a
poem adds a new dimension
A place where kids listen on a recorder to poems
and where kids can also record their own
poems.
Poetry Environment
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Poetry Study Centers: Ten areas where kids can
independently explore poetry:
Amazing Language Center: Purpose is to foster an
awareness, an appreciation, and a love of words-both for
meaning and their sound:
Teasure Hunt for Poetry
Cracking Open Words
Word Scramble
Find word Sound Personalities
Discovery Center
Poets are like scientist and many poems are
sparked by observations
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The poetry center uses this important tool to
fuse science and poetry.
In this center, students become close observers
of small, ordinary, and fascinating objects in
nature and in the world around us.
Poetry Window and Observation
Center
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Decorate part of the classroom window to
be used as the “Poetry Window”. Display
observation poems about the outside
world-sky, trees, the park, cars,street
around the window or in a basket as
examples. Have clipboards and paper at
the window ready for students to write
their observations.
Illustration
Center
Many poems contain images-words that
give us pictures in our minds
The purpose of this center:
Kids become aware of their internal mind
pictures.
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Place poems that have images and place
them in folders. Have blank paper, colored
markers, crayons and pencils available for
kids to illustrate with.
Revision Center
In this center kids will have the opportunty
to revise, rewrite their poems
Poetry Editorial Center
Connecting poetry with what’s happening in
the world
Music Center
Select a favorite poem and write it on chart.
Gather instruments like triangle, or small
drum and play music on selected words on
the poem. Read the poem using the
instruments to “play” the word
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Performance Center
This center makes poetry come alive
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Include props such as paper plate masks
and fabric for kids to use when they
perform poems.
Kids can choral read, act out, dance, or
sign a poem
Reading and Writing Poetry
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How do we ensure that poetry has a
chance to “sing” to our students?
How can we help our students form a
relationship to poetry?
How can we guide them toward poems
that will include their varied lives and
stories-poems that will speak to their
hearts?
The Three Layers of Reading Poetry
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Choose poems to read that are immediately
accessible, nonthreatening and relevant to
student’s lives
Help students to connect personally to a poem
by guiding them toward finding themselves and
their lives inside a poem.
UIDE students toward analyzing the craft of a
poem, figuring out how a poem is built,
interpreting what a poem means, unlocking the
puzzle of a difficult poem.
Where Does Poetry Hide?
Discovering where poems come from is an essential part of the poet
process.
The Doors of Poems
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The Heart Door
The Observation Door
The Concerns About the World Door
The Wonder Door
Infinite Poetry Doors
Crafting Poetry: Toolboxes
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The meaning toolbox
Six-Room-Poem
Metaphor and Simile: The Leap inside a Poem
Ordinary to Poetic
Words: The power to make something happen
Ending and Beginnings: How to Enter and Exit a
Poem
The Music Toolbox
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The Most frequently used musical tools:
Rhythm (the music of words in a line)
Repetition (repeating words, phrases, lines
or groups of lines)
Rhyme (rhyming words within the line are
called internal rhyme and rhyming words
at the end of a line are called end rhyme
Sharpening Our Outer and Inner
Visions: Poetry Projects
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The Power of Observation
 Observations
 Sketching
 Field Notes
The Power of Sharpening Our Inner Vision:
 Heart Mapping
 The Inner Poet
How do you write a Poem?
Brent Tatsuno & Alvin Kamm, Grade 6
(poem for two voices)
How do you write a poem?
What are your feelings?
Your imaginings?
Your wonderings?
What do you see?
The Image.
An empty room.
An alley cat.
How do you write a poem?
Life is one long lei.
How do you write a poem?
Your surroundings?
Your Wonderings?
Seek the image.
The Image.
A pepper plant.
A rocking chair.
Weave in surprises.
The Ocean.
And each person is a different flower.
And shore.
In constant battle.
How do you write a poem?
In constant battle.
Unusual words.
Let the rain.
Kiss you.
Line breaks.
Repetition.
Kiss you.
Ordinary to Poetic.
Repetition.
A song on your heart .
That is how you write a poem!
That is how you write a poem!