Poetry Game

While looking for poems for the kids to memorize over the summer (see previous blog post), I came across this poetry brown bag idea: 


I think this would work great at the end of summer as a refresher for the poems they learned - maybe cut up and put two in each bag and have the kids create both originals from memory. Then, have them use the sentences, like the author suggests, and create their own poems.


I should mention, because I didn't earlier, that I plan on memorizing the poems, too! My father, when he was in school, had to memorize "Oh, Captain! My Captain!" In high school there were several poems we had to memorize - I'm not having the kids do any of them because they were rather lengthy. But we never had the Walt Whitman poem to memorize, and I've wanted to learn it.


I do know "Nothing Gold Can Stay" from memory, but like a good child of the '70s it was from watching "The Outsiders" and reading it in elementary school.