Today, for Classroom Connections, I decided to use my Lion of the Sky poetry collection as a starting point for my sticky note poem. I picked a riddle-ku and used the N+7 exercise to swap out the nouns. (I used this online children’s dictionary, since I don’t have a print dictionary at hand.) Here’s the sticky note poem that resulted, and below are some of the steps of the writing process it went through.
Wouldn’t it be fun to take a poetry book out and try this exercise on a short poem with your students? You could do one N+7 exercise for the whole group, and see what individual poems are inspired by it!
Thanks for reading, and happy National Poetry Month! And if you ended up here by chance, fantastic! Here are a few links you might find helpful.
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[My Classroom Connections posts share a way to connect one of my books or poems to a classroom topic–often something timely that you might be covering in the next month or so. Please share this post if you have educator friends who might be interested–thanks!]
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Oh my, I remember thinking how much faster our electric typewriter was than the old one. LOL! And the comparison to today’s keyboard makes me LOL, again. (You got me thinking how many changes we’ve seen in our lives. I’m feeling a little old here because I used to think how many changes my grandfather, who was born in 1910, saw in his lifetime.) Your “descending from other things” idea works so well here with history and genes “Aunt Selectric and “Grandpa Kodak”. Excellent! Thank you for sharing your drafts and original. I love the way your mind works. 🙂
Very, VERY fun!