I Am Poems
The "I Am Poem" is a template-based poem that requires students to represent themselves in the form of poetry as well as in visual form.
- To write a poem that represents oneself.
- To symbolize part of a poem using self-identifying visuals.
- To get to know one another through the poem and accompanying visual.
- Provide students with an "I Am" template, either electronically - http://ettcweb.lr.k12.nj.us/forms/iampoem.htm- or through the template below to write their own poems.
Option One: Post of Flickr
- This activity can be done face-to-face or virtually.
- Once their poems are written, give participants the task to locate or take a photo from their mobile device that symbolizes who they are, the essence of their poems.
- Ask participants to email their photos to a Flickr account set up for this purpose. Participants do not need to have an account on Flickr to do so. The steps to set this up are as follows:
- Set up an account on Flickr - http://www.flickr.com/
- Photos can be emailed directly to this Flickr account. “You can upload photos to Flickr from your camera using your unique email upload address. When you upload photos via email, the subject line is used as the title of your photo, and the body of the email is used as the description” (http://www.flickr.com/help/mobile/)
- Provide participants with the email address to send their photos to Flickr along with the instructions to put their first name in the subject line and their I Am Poem in the description.
- Since all the group’s images will be sent to this single Flickr account, members can view each other’s poems via the Flickr account link provided to them, if a virtual classroom, or through the website projected on a screen if in a face-to-face setting.
- Example page can be found at http://www.flickr.com/photos/78773858@N03/
Option Two: Group Google Presentation
- This is best done face-to-face, as participants show and tell about their I Am poems after completion.
- Once the poems are written, provide participants with a link to a shared Google Doc Presentation, that you established.
- Ask them to use one of the presentation slides to compose their poem and include a photo from their Facebook accounts or one taken with their mobile that symbolizes the essence of their identify.
- After all participants complete this task, the presentation, one poem at a time, is projected via an interactive board. Participants, one at a time, read their poems to their classmates.