Poetry-Because Robin Williams Said It Was Great
Poetry. The “Bane” of every freshman’s existence. No, really, the freshman despise poetry just as much as Batman despises Bane, just as much as Voldemort despises Harry, and almost as much as I despise dabbing and bottle flipping as a teacher. Thank God those fads were short lived! Of course I saw this as a challenge: how to make poetry interesting. Que the inspirational “Rocky” music, past lessons, and of course, Pinterest aka a teacher’s best friend. Okay, so maybe I wasn’t listening to the “Rocky” theme song, but I was listening to music, which got me thinking. All of a sudden, I stumbled upon an old lesson I had saved that paired figurative language with popular song lyrics. BOOM! That was how I was going to make poetry interesting: turn Shakespeare, Poe, and Angelou into Bieber, Jovi, and Swift! You literary people out there, do not look down on me for comparing Angelou to T-Swift...those lessons were completely separate! We began our learning about the main figurative lang...