tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5975475581904630119.post5934641647889945817..comments2023-08-14T08:03:12.027-07:00Comments on Blue Positive: Paddling Around in the What-Makes-Us-Human PuddleMartha Silanohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16486148374821966457noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5975475581904630119.post-69626684399509774142010-10-18T09:43:11.899-07:002010-10-18T09:43:11.899-07:00Stephanie: Congrats on those positive midterm eval...Stephanie: Congrats on those positive midterm evals! I do believe students will think poetry is boring until we show them it's not. Way to go!Martha Silanohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16486148374821966457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5975475581904630119.post-14291542477246310122010-10-18T09:21:16.335-07:002010-10-18T09:21:16.335-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Stephaniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07770840645353569334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5975475581904630119.post-37649390613132399602010-10-17T07:44:38.241-07:002010-10-17T07:44:38.241-07:00Kathleen: happy to be out of touch with you!
Pam:...Kathleen: happy to be out of touch with you!<br /><br />Pam: Yes, I agree--that's why we should all support Writers in the Schools programs, where creative writers teach K-12 kids what poetry is.Martha Silanohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16486148374821966457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5975475581904630119.post-38613439324468457442010-10-17T01:37:11.261-07:002010-10-17T01:37:11.261-07:00Thanks for posting on this. It's funny; I rece...Thanks for posting on this. It's funny; I recently got my midterm evaluations from my students -- and this is a general education literature course for students who are not English majors -- and I had a good number of students say what they've enjoyed most so far was our poetry unit, even though we filled the chalkboard with reasons they hated poetry at the beginning of that unit.<br /><br />I think that's the best evidence that it's not dead. I think it's most alive when people who hate it suddenly don't.Stephaniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07770840645353569334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5975475581904630119.post-8054675468178309662010-10-16T11:20:55.241-07:002010-10-16T11:20:55.241-07:00I think people don't like to read poetry becau...I think people don't like to read poetry because they don't encounter it anywhere, particularly contemporary poetry. If they do read poetry, it's in school, often in isolated units and not as part of a larger study..and then it's all about analysis. Our exposure to poetry starts with Shel Silverstein or Jack Prelutsky and ends there until high school when suddenly we're reading a bit of Shakespeare or Dickinson or some haiku. There's a better way engage kids early on with both the reading and writing of poetry. Teach them early, immerse them in it and continue to expand their capacity and endurance for poetry into secondary school and beyond-- then college students, indeed adults in general, might not have such negative reactions.Pamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05674873440135193968noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5975475581904630119.post-11533075785626247792010-10-16T09:27:07.242-07:002010-10-16T09:27:07.242-07:00I love random coincidii! Loved your board and her...I love random coincidii! Loved your board and her board! And, yes, I, too, am out of touch with "reality." See? I must be, as I put it in irony marks.Kathleenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06559881249054540947noreply@blogger.com