Unit 10: Collaboration Through Persona-Poems

Summary

In this lesson, students learn how to write a poem. They use a format the teacher calls a “persona poem.” Students ask each other questions. The answers to those questions become the poem. Students learn that not all poems have to rhyme.

This activity asks students to use English creatively to develop poems about their classmates. They now have a product that they can proudly show to their friends and family

At the end of the class, the students display their work on a wall and do a "gallery walk" – they walk around and view and read one another's persona poems.

Teacher Preparation Video Transcript

This episode shows a model of teaching through collaboration on persona poems. Click on the image below to download a pdf of the transcript.

Women Teaching Women English Text

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Women Teaching Women English Listening

These audio files go with Unit 10 of Women Teaching Women English.