To become a Middle School Language Arts teacher, I taught 10 lessons of poetry in a local Middle School. That wasn't all it entails, but that is the short version of the story. For the final summative assessment, the students put together poetry books of their own poems they completed during the two weeks to give to someone, if they should so choose, as gifts for their families over the holiday break. I remember doing this in 6th grade with Mr. Faber when he made these great Seashore books bound with our own drawings and data of different things found in tide pools and then we took a class field trip to the tide pools. One of my favorite elementary school projects!
For the project, the students used watercolors to decorate the covers. Each student was provided with cotton balls to smear the paint to make an abstract image. Inside the book was a dedication page, a Purpose of poetry page, a found poem, a quatrain and a concrete poem. Then I went and laminated and comb-binded them. They turned out looking really nice!
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