Poetry Reading & Writing

Participants will be invited to engage in shared recitations of selected writers.
Discussions will follow each reading with the intention of sharing personal interpretations. Upon reflection, participants will be asked to create poems of their own, using effective poetic devices as tools for their writing. Pieces will be shared and discussed.

Curriculum Links

Explores thematic use of language as a portal to public speaking; supports literacy by exploring language devices such as pattern, rhyme, figurative speech and syllabic metre; explores traditional and contemporary functions of melodic language.

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