In Writing Workshop, we are becoming our own poets. Our lessons have taught us how to use our "poets' eyes" and observe things with our hearts and minds. We have practiced writing poems by looking at objects and choosing words that show what they resemble rather than exactly what is in front of us. For example, with "normal eyes" clouds can be described as white, puffy, floating across the sky, etc.
However, with "poets' eyes" clouds can become cotton candy, pillows, animals in the sky, etc.
We worked together and listened for where line breaks should go. Line breaks help writers to break up their poems into specific lines so that when a poem is read aloud it sounds just right and read in a way the poet intended.
I was so impressed with how students reread poems that they have written, underlined certain words that should go together, in different colors, and then rewrote their poems with line breaks. It was amazing to hear the difference in their two different versions!
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