Witty Words, Awesome Animals: A Poetry Workshop

Kids will use their “poetry toolkits” to uncover meaning and music in a variety of animal poems, then generate their own. Includes an exploration of poetic techniques such as similes and metaphors, alliteration, consonance, assonance, and onomatopoeia, as well as a look into animal behaviour, habitats, and adaptations. The workshop will begin with an overview of Jen’s early artistic development and the creative process, and end with a Q&A period. 

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Explore sounds, rhythms, and language structures; recognize, explore, describe, and compare text patterns; generate, gather, and organize ideas and information to write for an intended purpose and audience; demonstrate an understanding that animals have distinct characteristics; demonstrate an understanding of habitats and communities and of interrelationships among the organisms that live in them; describe adaptations, including physical and/or behavioural characteristics, that allow various animals to survive in their natural environment.

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