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McLaughlin, Gary L. – Exercise Exchange, 1988
Emphasizes classroom study of poetic patterns and images to enable students to see how poems work without overwhelming them with terminology. (MS)
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Imagery, Pattern Recognition, Poetry

Mullican, James S. – Exercise Exchange, 1985
Describes an assignment in which students are taught to develop poetry using the ideas and words found in newspaper or magazine stories. Includes model poems. (HTH)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Models, Poetry, Secondary Education

Perreault, George – Exercise Exchange, 1996
Describes an assignment in which students sharpen their punctuation skills by arranging poems without punctuation in a prose form with appropriate punctuation. Suggests using the poetry of a fictional character from Don Marqui's "archy and mehitabel." (TB)
Descriptors: Lesson Plans, Poetry, Punctuation, Secondary Education

Clark, John R. – Exercise Exchange, 1985
Suggests using poetry's short short forms for a methodical and rapid series of writing assignments that emphasize both careful writing at the sentence level and overall planning and respect for form. (HTH)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, English Instruction, Poetry, Teaching Methods

Rakauskas, William – Exercise Exchange, 1982
An approach to teaching the writing of poetry is presented in this brief article. AUTHOR'S COMMENT (excerpt): A poet's purpose is to amuse, to instruct, to embellish truth, or to vitalize dull reality. Poets compress, using the minimum number of words to gain the maximum effect, yoking seemingly disparate ideas into metaphors, creating poetic…
Descriptors: Class Activities, College English, Higher Education, Learning Activities

Shaughnessy, Shari E. – Exercise Exchange, 1987
Provides a step-by-step approach to teaching students the elements of poetry, such as similes, acrostics, metaphors, and odes. Copies of handouts are included. (HTH)
Descriptors: Creative Writing, English Instruction, Figurative Language, Metaphors

McCotter, Kathryn – Exercise Exchange, 1989
Describes three exercises which use creative spelling in student-generated advertising, poetry, and dialect. (MM)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Creative Writing, Higher Education, Poetry

Herzer, Scott; Robinson, Jill – Exercise Exchange, 1989
Describes an activity that develops student writers' individual voices, even when collaborating closely in a writing workshop. Notes that the writing workshop allows students access to each other's writing processes and encourages consensus on revision directions. (MM)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Collaborative Writing, Creative Writing, Higher Education

Mullican, James S. – Exercise Exchange, 1986
Uses Yeats's poem "Father and Child" to help high school students understand the technical elements that go into a poem and to help English methods students understand what is meant by an integrated lesson in language, literature, and composition. (HTH)
Descriptors: Critical Reading, Higher Education, Integrated Activities, Literature Appreciation

Sanchez, Rebecca – Exercise Exchange, 1999
Describes how a 10th-grade English teacher brings a historical event such as World War I to life with words and visuals of the time. Discusses World War I poems as products of that era, and helps students realize they have the stream of language inside themselves by journaling, making a "word bank," and writing poems. (SR)
Descriptors: Class Activities, English Instruction, Grade 10, History Instruction