We were recently treated to a poetry lesson by one of the Dad's in our Friday group. He is a literature professor at Brown and offered to lead the kids (big and little) in a short introduction. Since not all the kids can read and write he used a novel approach - accidental poetry.
He started with a discussion of poetry, read a couple, and then showed them a few poems with different formatting. Then he talked a little about accidental or found art and let them create their own accidental poems.
Each child took a few words that had been cut from magazines and newspapers and taped them to a paper in whatever format they wanted. The kids were instructed to not choose their words but to just take a random handful. Some of the results were funny, some nonsensical, and some were fantastic. But no matter what the kids came up with they all had lots of fun with the process!
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| Julia's poetry |
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| Ben's poetry |
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