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Using Online Publishing in a Collaborative Poetry Project - Resources and Notes: Presenter - Steph Kantz
skantz@cysd.k12.pa.us 11th grade English at Central York block schedule

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 * __Project Files__**

__**Links:**__ [|Common Themes in Literature] [|Poetry Out Loud-Performance Criteria] [|Poetry Out Loud-Sample Poetry Performances] [|Poetry180-How to Read a Poem Aloud] [|Poetry Writer's Workshop] [|Student Publication 1] [|Student Publication 2] [|Mixbook.com]

Lulu.com - free service - easy to use $7 each free download upload in PDF format turn around = 2 weeks

to start - read published work - Poetry Moodle - create 3 and publish them to a forum - review 3, mix it up - not just friends. (one initial up the alphabet, down - 12 up and down) - choose what they will publish - consistency was an issue - created a checklist - students self check their work - real life - there will be a variety of abilities that will be evident - they're all published - no separation of level - allowed to be anonymous first year, second year - pushed taking ownership

Not just writing poetry, how to read, perform, analyzing, compete in Poetry Out Loud

How she is doing it... collab poetry time middle of march week before talk about poetry devices benchmarks are set getting the book complete was about 2 weeks

8 themes of poetry individual in nature, in society, relation to the gods Human relations, growth and initiation, time