Creating our own Slam Poetry

Each person in our class will create a poem that they want to read aloud with meaning and feeling. We've seen what others can do and now it is time to try it for ourselves. Our final assignment for this portion or poetry will be to create and display our work for the class. I'll be doing the assignment right alongside you. The poem can be about anything you want and you have free reign as far as how you want to design it. We'll be breaking into small groups throughout to try and help others and to read your poems to your groups to get practice in before we present to the class. Have fun with this, don't stress out. If you have any questions or concerns you can post them to the blog or ask me in class.

It is possible, here are some high school students reading their own words so it has been done before. Explore yourself and find something you feel truly passionate about, something that can give your words more than just text on paper. Make it come to life!