Poetry and Drama

Group Challenge: Preparing Students for a Team Recitation Contest

Speaker & Mover 1: Listening, Mirroring

The Tone Map

Dialogue Roulette

Rap a Tap Tap – Expression through Music, Movement and Drama

The Raven

Just Act Natural: Poetry and Play

Developing Oral Language and Vocabulary through Poetry

Geo-Poem Videos

Speaker & Mover 2: Advanced

Character vs. Self

Old & New Thinking

Scenes

Poetry for Two Voices: Reading, Writing and Performing

Using poets Phil Kaye and Sarah Kay’s YouTube performance of “When Love Arrives” as an inspiration, students will perform and write comparison poems for two voices.

Finding the Heart in Whitman’s “O Captain! My Captain!”

Living Poetry

 There are many advantages to be found in studying and reciting poetry: