Using my poems as pedagogical tools
When I originally wrote these poems I had intended them to be used as spring-boards for discussion in classroom settings. I wrote them and then never really did anything with them. Years later, I have decided to dust them off and send them (unedited) into cyberspace to see what reaction ( if any ) I might receive.
If you are an educator and decide to make use of them in a school setting, I would be appreciative if you would answer some of the following questions:
- Which poems did you select and what influenced your choices?
- What grade level were you teaching?
- Are the poems easy to read out loud or do I need to work on them a bit more?
- Did the children react to them? Please describe.
- How easy was it to start a discussion based on the suggested topics?
- Did other topics arise?
- Did you experiment with any of the suggested classroom activities? If so, were they appropriate in your view? Which ones did you try?
- Do you have any suggestions for grade-levels?
- Was the material new to the students or were they well informed already?
- Are there any other topics you feel I could address?
- How user-friendly is the format? Do I need to flesh it out more? Any other suggestions to improve it?
Thank you for any assistance.
andrea
