Les Boadu Topic: Poetry

1. Activities

1.1. Poetry Slam

1.2. Poem in a Pocket Day Celebration April

1.3. Read a poem to a senior (Queens Library)

1.4. Dancing to the sounds of poetry

1.5. Count the rhyming words in a poem

1.6. Count the sight words in a poem

1.7. Mathematical graph on Descriptive words

1.8. Painting to Langston Hughes Poetry

1.9. Friendship poems

2. Books

2.1. Runny Rabbit by Shel Silverstein

2.1.1. Mice by Rose Fylan

2.1.1.1. Cat by Mary Miller

2.2. Who has seen the wind by Christina Rossetti

2.3. Somewhere by Jane Baskwill

2.4. Click Clack Moo

2.5. Earthdance by Joanne Ryder

2.6. Visiting Langston by Willie Perdo

3. Poetry themes

3.1. Animals

3.2. Seasons

3.3. Weather

3.4. Animals

3.5. Music

3.6. School

3.7. Friends

3.8. Family

3.9. Feelings

3.10. Nature

3.11. Movies

3.12. Sports

3.13. Fashion

4. Style of Poetry

4.1. Rhyming words

4.2. Similes

4.3. Metaphors

5. Descriptive

5.1. Something looks like

5.2. Feels like

5.3. Sounds like

5.4. Smells like

5.5. Tastes like

6. Writing Strctures

6.1. Punctuation

6.2. Line breaks

6.3. White space

6.4. Descriptive language

7. 5doors of poetry

7.1. The Heart Door

7.2. The Memory Door

7.3. The Observation Door

7.4. The Wondering Door

7.5. The Humor Door

8. Nature walk at near by alley pond park

9. Nature instrumentals played as students are writing

10. Verbal and linguistic intelligence : Poetry at the school yard

11. Technology

11.1. Smart Board

11.2. Computer

11.3. I-Pad

11.3.1. Laptop