A little while back, I had the opportunity to co-design and co-teach a week long course at a local charter school. My co-teacher and I decided to teach a class about art and poetry, with the enduring understanding that you can interpret things in many, many ways.
Students worked on a number of projects including a cut-out word poem, making art inspired by famous poems, and making a poem inspired by a famous piece of art. The unit culminated in a "gallery opening" during which students presented an original poem and an interrelated original part piece.
I was amazed at the insights these students had! The art and poems they created were terrific, and the whole unit was a blast.
I felt like the lesson really came through one day when I was instructing the students to make a piece of art inspired by a poem. One student said to me, "but how can you make a piece of art inspired by the poem when the poem is already a form of art?" (A fifth grader, friends!) Well said! Art can be poetry and poetry can be art!
I love it, such an inspirational post! :)
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Thank you so much, Tina! The kids were a great group that gave me a lot of inspiration :)
DeleteLove the poem with the ghosts!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Eline! That was actually an example I came up with for the students
DeleteLove this post :)
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Thank you, Kendra!!
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