Please use this thread to post any ideas you have for teaching poetry.
If you enjoyed talking about how to teach poetry with Johanna Featherstone from the Red Room Company, I encourage you to keep the conversation flowing here!
Perhaps your teacher used a really great exercise or assignment that you remember?
Perhaps you have a useful web link to share?
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Exercises/activities:

1: 'NOTICE'

1. Students are given a small sheet of paper with the word NOTICE printed on it.
2. Then they write down something that they notice about the space they are in.
3. Last step is to go an put your piece of paper up next to the thing you noticed.
4. To finish - students walk around, reading what each other have noticed.

2: Poetry Slam

• Slam poetry is a relatively new type of poetry performance - sometimes hard to find resources for.  

Here is one collection of resources from a teacher in the United States:

http://forwardthinkingeducation.tumblr.com/post/30079468947/by-request 

Consider holding a poetry slam in your class to provide students with an engaging poetry project to work towards.

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