POETRY- Cinquains and Versed Poems

In our second poetry session our lecturer did two other kinds of poems with the class. We did Cinquans and Versed poems. A Cinquain poem is a verse of five lines that do not rhyme. Miss Polius broke down the Cinquain by telling us that the first line consist of the topic, second line describes the topic, third line has three descriptive words ending in -ing, fourth line makes a statement about the topic and the final line uses a synonym to replace the topic.

Cinquain Lay Out-

She provided many examples of Cinquains to ensure that we understood. Then she asked us to create some of our own. Further, we were given an oppertunity to perform our Cinquans to the rest of the class. Our group members were impressed with the quality of Cinquains that were produced in a matter of 15 minutes. Finally, Miss Polius highlighted that Cinquains can be used to teach a concept in any subject area and she encouraged us to create some that we can use for teaching practice.

Example of a Cinquain-

After learning about Cinquains our lecturer transitioned smoothly into another type of poem. She did this by giving us the versed poem entitled: Chant to Kill a Snake and in groups we were required to perform the poem in our own unique way. This segment had all of us dying with laughter and as we vividly remember Gizelle Antoine's voice saying, "kill him, kill him, kill him I tell you". This was an epic session where shrills and shrills of laughter travelled across the entire block. When we were in a somewhat normal mode again Miss Polius gave us some insight about versed poems. we were informed that a versed poem may not necessarily rhyme and it consist of many verses. We could tell that this type of poem was not the favourite of many of our colleagues as it was a more complex type of poem that requires more time and effort to create. We did not get a chance to write our own versed poem due to time constraints. However, we clearly understood what it was about because Miss Polius enusured that we did.

Your Truly,
TabsNashRina

Poetry Questions

Our group has found this interesting picture which asks some important questions about poetry. It is of vital importance when preparing any piece of writing the writer must take into consideration the audience. These questions can guide a poet to creating an ideal piece for the choosen audience. We hope this is useful to you because we found it to be very useful to us.

Yours Truly,

TabsNashRina

Poetry Writing

POETRY

Miss Polius introduced Poetry to the class in a way I would never imagined. Firstly, she asked us to come to the chalkboard to write all what we knew about poetry. Surprisingly, my colleagues and I were able to fill up the board with things that we knew about poetry. For sure we knew that there were different kinds of poems including, Limerick, Cinquain, Sonnet and three versed poems. Additonally, we listed other things to the effect that poetry is fun, rhythmic, sometimes rhyme, musical, a summary of thoughts and so much more.

Then our lecturer went on to expound on Limericks. A limerick is a humorous poem consisting of five lines. The first, second, and fifth lines must have seven to ten syllables while rhyming and having the same verbal rhythm. The third and fourth lines only have to have five to seven syllables, and have to rhyme with each other and have the same rhythm. She showed us the various strategies of how a Limerick can be edited to form other Limericks. 

As a group we were elated to learn about this type of poem because we saw it as an opportunity to equip ourselves as we retun to the classroom to impat knowledge to our students. Limericks can be used as ice breakers to bring some humour to the kids before or after a lesson. It can also be used to teach a concept depending on the nature of it. As the session came to a close we reflected also on the enthusiasm of the lecturer and how she catered for inclusion of all her students. We would like to commend her and let her know that she is great teacher.

Yours Truly,

TabsNashRina

Decriptive Writing-

On October 25^th, 2016 our literacy class was very interesting. The class began with our course lecturer asking volunteers to read their descriptive pieces they had written as part of our lit 102 assignments. A few of our classmates opted to volunteer to read their piece of work. This was a very interesting activity for us as we were able to hear and see how creative many of our classmates were. Also, as our classmates shared their pieces of work this assisted us in providing ideas for our own personal writing as well as pieces of writing that can be useful for our students in the classroom.

Additionally, one of the few persons who volunteered to read aloud their descriptive piece was one of our group members carina. This exercise provided her with much more confidence than she possessed.

We then moved on to another genre of writing which was expository writing. We began this lesson with an expository piece being given to us. We read the expository piece and tried to formulate an outline (plan) for this piece. This was indeed a good activity as the process for doing an outline was modelled and as a result it served as a guide to me when we would have to do my own. Lastly, during the course of this lesson new vocabulary was being learnt. we enjoyed learning new vocabulary as this definitely will assist us in improving our written and oral abilities.

TabsNashRina

Poetry- Limericks

Our class about Limericks were OFF THE HOOK exciting. The entire class was fully enagaged and up in laughter after limericks were presented one after the other. I worked in collaboration with Jervaughn to create a limerick based on a true story about out LIT102 lecturer. We performed it using role play and props to add to the whole presentation. See below a link to an anchor video of the limerick being performed by my partner and I along with the lyrics of the Limerick.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0By-yuCOcX29BNVVIQWpZVkRJNUk

There once was a farmer who taught

her limes and her lemons we bought

the pears were so biggy

they looked like a piggy

no wonder de tings cost a lot!