We have been studying poetry since March, including thinking deeply about how words affect the reader. We recently started writing our own poetry. We began by writing found poetry, also known as blackout poetry. To write this poetry, we use a page of text (copied from novels) and circle the words we want to keep for our poem. We cross or blackout the words we don't want. Found poetry has been fun to write and a great jumping off point for free verse poetry.
Some of us have felt inspired to use the words from the text pages with words from our imaginations to create our own free verse poems. We learned that poetry doesn't have to rhyme to be considered "real poetry" and that we can play with words and break a lot of rules that we use in other forms of writing and even other forms of poetry. Poetry can be emotionally moving and powerful or silly and entertaining! We love sharing our writing with the class, like in the picture below. Miss Cichosz is encouraging us to use more descriptive words in our writing, so studying poetry is an interesting way to make our writing come alive for the reader!
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