Workshop Groups: Political Poem Pointing

1. Take a few minutes to read/watch the sample poems from last class.
2. In your workshop groups, select one of the poems you have created last class to share with your group. Read this poem with your group.
3. Each group member should indicate a word, phrase, or line that they liked. The writer should indicate how often a line or phrase is selected and mark a check mark next to the line.
4. Do this exercise with each member's selected poem.
5. After all members have completed the exercise, break up and go back to the "writing" board. Remove only the lines that were selected and begin a second draft with only that line (throw away the rest of the poem...not literally). There is no need to follow the idea of a "political poem" or the exercises that CREATED the first draft.
6. Write a new poem draft. Call this draft two.

8th period: selecting a poetry book.