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Know Your ABCs!: Alphabet Poetry

Week 6, Workshop 10

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Do now

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10 MIN

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ABC Body Art

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10 MIN

Divide into teams of 3-4. Create a circle with plenty of space.
Each group will go into the circle and use their bodies to create a letter of the alphabet. Each group member must be apart of the letter.

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Alphabet Poems

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10 MIN

As a team read through the literary moment.

Alphabet Poems: poems in which every line begins with a successive letter of the alphabet. The first line begins with A, the second with B, etc. There is one line for each letter of the entire alphabet.

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Alphabet Poetry

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10 MIN

A

B

C

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Alphabet Poetry

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20 MIN

In your journals you will now work independently to create your alphabet poem.
You may choose any topic you would like for your poem.

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Sharing

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10 MIN

Performance Tips & Norms

Be confident
Enunciate
Make eye contact
Have some attitude

Audience Members Remember

Show love
Be respectful
Respect ther Mic

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Share your Alphabet poems with your team!

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Exit Ticket

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“Here comes my SCORES team!” Write the next two lines of this alphabet poem.
What did you like about writing an alphabet poem? What did you dislike?

5 MIN