| Description |
1 online resource (243 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Write Out of the Classroom; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction and theory; Reproducing the thinking behind good writing; Teachers have to make miracles happen; Growing exceptional writers; Inspired by 'reality'; 2 Choosing locations for interactive writing visits; First considerations; Places for poetry brainstorming sessions; Practicalities of working areas; 3 Out-of-classroom sessions: preparations and practicalities; Clothing and equipment; Watching the weather; Recording of ideas; Pre-visit inputs |
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Photocopiable pages: Practical checklists for brainstorming sessions onsite and offsite4 Leading a descriptive poetry brainstorm session; Aims and fundamentals; Starting a session; Guiding the brainstorming session; Further notes on questioning; Photocopiable pages: Questioning pointers for leading poetic brainstorming on location; 5 Possible pre-writing inputs on poetry's layouts, sounds, language, meaning and form; Introduction to sounds and stresses; Discovering more about stressed beats; Poetic meter; Discovering deeper links between meter and meaning |
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Offering student writers flexibility of poetic formPhotocopiable page: 'Leaves' poem (as example of linkage between meter and meaning); Photocopiable page: 'Leaves' poem with stressed and unstressed beats marked; 6 Essential inputs before students write descriptive poems; A poem must have 'flow'; Separating the wheat from the chaff; Considering the 'I' in a poem; Choosing a tense for the poem; To rhyme or not to rhyme?; Rhyming in fewer places; When to use rhyming dictionaries; The use of slant and partial rhymes; Initial capitals at starts of lines? |
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7 Possible additional poetry inputs, editing tips and suggestions about the writing spaceSecond stage brainstorming; Tips for editing and tightening lines; 'Final lines first'; The writing session and the writing space; Photocopiable page: Descriptive poetry: a pre- writing checklist of possible inputs; 8 'Minimalist poems': a useful poetry form to base on locational brainstorms; What are 'minimalist' poems?; Brainstorming and writing tips; Photocopiable pages: Examples of 'minimalist' poetry; 9 Group poems, their development into other art forms and examples of co-operative work |
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Location based collective poetryCreating 'poster poems'; Evolving location-based poems into dramatic movement; Presentations and collaborations; Examples of collective poetry; 10 Useful poetry forms for writing on location: 'reflective haikus'; About haikus; Why 'reflective haikus'?; Examples of 'reflective haikus' with notes; Reflective haikus as 'beach art' or other 'land art'; Photocopiable pages: Examples of refl ective haikus; 11 Useful poetry forms for writing on location: 'syllable cinquains'; Enjoyable and challenging!; How to inspire cinquain creation on location |
| Summary |
Write Out of the Classroom is a ground-breaking, highly practical book which provides teachers and creative writing tutors with great ways of tapping into the huge inspirational and educational potential of the richly diverse world beyond the classroom walls. Effective learning occurs when the process feels exciting, inspiring and 'real', and there is nothing more stimulating and 'real' than the real world itself. Working with groups in interesting and evocative settings can generate exceptional participant involvement. Well-led 'locational brainstorming' in such places incre |
| Notes |
Some examples of 'syllable cinquains' |
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Print version record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781136203527 |
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1136203524 |
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