Analyze

After learning about what makes up a poem, today, we started talking about how to study and read a poem. We started analyzing poems.

First, we took notes, so we knew some of the basic questions we could ask ourselves, and what we could do.

Then we received a graphic organizer to help us.

It is fun to see how engaged and interested students are in reading poetry. The analyze step is important, because you realize that students don't always realize what they are reading. They know if they "like" the poem, or if it is humorous, but they hadn't always thought about what the author was trying to say, or what techniques the writer uses to get across their idea. We also learned that in both classes, students didn't know what a "poet" was ... Real learning and analysis happening ...