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Many students in high school today can not stand

poetry. They think it’s stupid, hard to

understand and that one has to be in love in

order to write poetry. Poetry is a challenging

genre to present to high school students.

But. . . Of course that’s not what poetry is

about.

We s e e poetry everywhere if you

really look hard enough.

I want my students to fall head over heels inlove with poetry, and NEW YORK CITY is the

perfect place to find eccentric love.

I want my students to realize that their

environment has a great influence on their

creativity.

As a teacher I want them to experience poetry

first and then use these experiences to learn

about forms, literary devices, structures and

how to analyze other poems. Students will have

the opportunity to write with freedom, but attimes also writing poetry that is structured.

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I really like the 

ideas that this

research

presented. I can

use the ideas to

have studentsstart thinking

about their 

environment as

the foundation

for the poetry 

that they will create this

semester.

I would include 

A handout 

Where studentsGet to reflect 

On how they 

Feel about 

poetry.

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I would include a sample piece of a found poem a student wrote while riding the

subway during our class trip to the Nuyorican café located on 236 East 3rd Street New

York. As we made our way to uptown, I will distribute a small notepad to my students

so that they may jot different words that they see throughout the field trip. These

would be words seen on posters, billboards, pamphlets and even graffiti. I would like

for students to write a poem from the perspective of a poet who lives in New YorkCity. This would be a great way to have students think of themselves as poets.

The Nuyorican café is a place were some of the greatest New Yorkers come to recite

their poetry. Taking my students here would allow my students to see, smell, feel,

taste and hear poetry.

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My introduction

I will write a reflection journal. Last summer I

 wrote a sestina about the coconut tree in my 

mother’s back yard in the Dominican Republic as

 way to do some creative writing. I am taking the

role of a teacher who is returning fall semester and

 wants to get her high school students interested inpoetry. I would mention the difficulties of writing 

poetry, especially poetry that is more structured.

The solution that I have proposed in order to get 

my students to write poetry is to have them use

their environment.

I would like to create an activity where students will

 write a sestina about a tree in their neighborhood.

This way students create poetry that follows a 

certain structure and formation.

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I want to allow students to write different styles of poetry. One of my favorites,

which I think would be popular with students is allowing them to write shape

poems. I would include a sample piece of a students shape poem. I would ask

students to take a picture of something in their community so that we may work on

it in class to create our poems.

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This assignment would show allow students to compose

beautifully structured poems based on pictures from TimesSquare. I will give students the opportunity to choosefrom what kind of poetry they would like to compose. Thiswould serve as another visual genre for my paper.