Bill, Love the surrealistic poem idea. Approximately how many index cards did you provide each student with / how many did they complete in that 2-3 minute time period? (I'm wondering how many index cards would be needed for 3 classes to do this activity.) Barbara/FL
-----Original Message----- On Behalf Of Bill IVEY I also had fun with my kids yesterday doing a surrealistic poem - after working on the definition, I asked them to do automatic writing onto index cards (one word or phrase per index cards) for approximately two or three minutes in response to an image I showed them. I then collected the cards in a bag, mixed them up, pulled them out and read them in that random order. The kids thought it was really cool and want to do it again. We decided next time, there wouldn't be a common stimulus - we want to see if there will still be logic of a kind (which we did get in yesterday's poem). Next?! Bill Ivey _______________________________________________ The Literacy Workshop ListServ http://www.literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/lit_literacyworkshop.org. Search the LIT archives at http://snipurl.com/LITArchive
