{"id":853,"date":"2016-03-13T10:42:01","date_gmt":"2016-03-13T10:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paddyeger.com\/educatingamerica\/blog\/?p=853"},"modified":"2016-03-13T10:42:01","modified_gmt":"2016-03-13T10:42:01","slug":"quotes-to-cherish-activity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/2016\/03\/13\/quotes-to-cherish-activity\/","title":{"rendered":"Poetry Day is Coming!!"},"content":{"rendered":"

March 21 is Poetry Day.\u00a0 <\/strong>Here’s an activity to get you started.<\/p>\n

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  1. Ask each member of the class (adults and students) to select a short poem<\/strong> that “speaks to them” personally. Ask them to write it out in their best handwriting, sign their name, fold it up and place it in a sealed envelope. The selection needs to be made and written out by March 18th.<\/strong><\/li>\n
  2. Place all the envelopes in a basket and ask students to randomly draw out one envelope.<\/li>\n
  3. \u00a0Each envelope is opened, one at a time. The poem is read aloud and discussed.<\/li>\n
  4. \u00a0The person who selected the poem than adds any special or personal reason the poem was selected.<\/li>\n
  5. \u00a0Extensions: The poems may be used to create a bulletin board, a chapbook, the source of further poetry readings, or photocopied with space for adding individual illustrations as the beginning of an illustrated book of poetry. OR, use the poems to create a class program to share with other classes or family members.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    What other activities can you suggest?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    March 21 is Poetry Day.\u00a0 Here’s an activity to get you started. Ask each member of the class (adults and students) to select a short poem that “speaks to them” personally. Ask them to write it out in their best handwriting, sign their name, fold it up and place it in a sealed envelope. The\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,29,16],"tags":[224,225,226],"class_list":["post-853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reading","category-subject-matter-suggestions","category-teacher-tips","tag-poetry","tag-poetry-activities","tag-quotation-exchange"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}