Inner Voice Rumble -Writing a Poem and Monologue expressing one's inner thoughts
Objectives: Students will use found words in famous poems to create their own poems to voice their inner identity.
Students will understand and use the Stream of Consciousness technique to create a monologue to reveal a deeper sense of one's identity.
Activities:
Activity I-Writing a Found Poem
Step 1: Writing a Found Poem to help further explore one's inner voice.
Students will have completed the echo poems based on the set of poems by different poests expressing their individual identity. Now students will go over the poems once again to underline words or phrases that speak to them in a certain way - whether it is about how they feel about themselves or believe who they are, etc. Select words or phrases from the poems provided(Identity Rumble worksheets). Create a blank word bank and drop the selected words in the Word Bank.Use the words or phrases from the Word Bank to create a found poem about yourself-speaking your thoughts, feelings and dreams etc.
Step 2: Once the Word Bank is completed. Students can now select words from it to compose a poem by using as many words and phrases in the found poem.
Step 3: Describe a inner voice students want to describe and write it down in a box. Now find as many words or phrases that connect to or help express the inner voice. For example, "How I Fee"l goes in a box; then use found words and pheases that describe " How I Feel". Students should feel free to use their own words to connect the found expressions.
Step 4: Once the first draft is finished, students should go back to the poem and work on rhyming scheme, rhythm and diction.
Step 5: Students share completed found poem. While individual students share poems in a small group of four, the listeners will indentify the inner voice being expressed in the found poem. Group members will also discuss what poetic devices their classmates used very effectively in expressing their inner voice. Each small group picks one poem to present to the class.
Activity 2: Creating a Monologue
Step 1: Students will make a list of words to describe how they feel at that momenT. Jot down as many feelings as you can for two minuntes.
Step 2: Students read aloud in a circle their list of feelings. After sharing the list, the class talks about the reasons and causes of their feelings for a few minutes.
Step 3: Students go back to the list and pick out one specific feeling that compells them to describe and write more. Use that feeling as a title and place it on top of the page. Write freely and extensively without stopping for about 7 minutes.Use streams of consciousness to describe the cluster of imagery, events of no time sequence , no logic, no punctuations , past, present and future all meshed in one. All the writing needs to be related to the word of feeling they place on the page.
Step 4: Share your free writing in a small group of 4. Listen and take notes when a compelling image appears. Once all 4 members share the reading, discuss what is the motif of the writing in each member's free writing- the dominating imagery, feelings, symbols or event.
Step 5: Students use the motif of their free writing and use that motif as the beginning sentence to start their monologue. Write about 15 minutes.
Step 6: Students share in small groups of 4-5. Each small group picks the best monologue and shares with the class. While listening, the class pays attention to specific imagery or events to help them identify the inner voice expressed.
Conclusion: Students will publish their dialogues, echo poems, found poems and monologues in an anthology.
Final Project:
Publish all the creative writing pieces for the Identity Rumble unit that includes-