Chatterbox: Inkwell

NEW POETRY CLUB 2!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Okay, so this is the second poetry club I've created. The last poetry club got through three poems before it died...but it had an AMAZING discussion, especially on the poem "A Dream Within a Dream" by Edgar Allen Poe. If you want to join the poetry club, first please find time to read the discussion for that poem, found on pages four through six. It really was an amazing, deep discussion. Here is the link:  http://www.cricketmagkids.com/chatterbox/inkwell/node/176516?page=3

NOTE: It is never too late to join. Anyone can drop in at any time. 

Anyway, let's get started! Here is how it will work, for now.

In a nutshell: we choose a poet and one of their poems, discuss it, then at some point, once we've had a good discussion, a prompt will be given and we will write our own poems based on the prompt, which will relate to the poem. Or it may simply say, "Write a poem inspired by this one." Then, once we've done all that, we move on to a new poem. 

First, we vote on a poet. You can start listing ideas for nominations. At some point, I'll lsit all the nominees, we vote, majority wins.

Whichever poet we choose, we will start out with one of their poems. if you don't mind, I would like to post the first poem. After that, whoever wants to post the poem can do so.

Once the poem is posted, a schedule will be made, resembling something like this:

1. Share the poem. (READ)

2. Vocab Person, define words. (DEFINE)

3. Discuss the poem, its meaning, its feeling, how we would have changed it, whatever you want to discuss about it! (DISCUSS)

4. Prompts are given, we discuss it and write our own poems. (WRITE)

5. Discuss each other's poems, compare it, etc. (WRITE)

If you're wondering what Vocab Person is, that's if one of you would like to volunteer for listing any possibly unknown words (not necessarily words you don't know, but words somebody else might not know) and their definition. That would help to understand the poem.

So, please join! Even if you won't be able to be extremely devoted to it...the more people the better!

-Owlgirl