Fun+Activity

What we are? We say we want to become what we are or what we have an intent to be. We read the possibilities, or try. We get to some. We think we know how to read. We recognize a word, here and there, a syllable: //male//, it says perhaps, or //female//, //talent// -- look what you could do -- or love, it says, love is what we mean. Being at any cost: in the end, the cost is terrible but so is the lure to us. We see it move and shine and swallow it. We say we are and this is what we are as to say we should be and this is what to be and this is how. But, oh, it isn’t so. I would first do a line by line analysis of the poem. So, I would put the title up and have students start discussing what they think it will be about based off the title. I could have s student act as a scribe that writes their ideas down as I add the lines one at a time on another board. With each line, I will have students say what they think it means and see if they can guess what the next line will mean. We follow that pattern until it is done. We can then discuss what determined how students interpreted the poem, how they changed their minds and why, and what their final interpretation for the poem was. I would then do a found poem with the students using the same poem. The students will not know it is the same poem. Found poem. Students take pieces from the poem and have to create their own. Students break up into groups at their tables and each receive a packet/envelope with the words from the poem. The students are then instructed to create sentences using these words. They can either create a poem or a shape poem. At the end, the students can know that it was the same poem and see how their poem differs from the original. **LOVE ** Love is what we want Recognize it is between male and female. We say possibilities at any cost, talent- Terrible. Can’t swallow. Being what we are: we have intent perhaps, but to what cost or end. Should we be mean? Become what we think we could be? Syllable: read Love lures, so isn’t what we are?
 * __What We Are: William Bronk__**
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