Today, we started our new unit on poetry! As an introduction to poetry, students were introduced to sound poetry, which is an experimental form playing with sounds, resulting in a kind of metamorphosis of words. | |
We experienced bpNichol's delightful sound poems. TASK #1: Inspired by bpNichol's sound poem "The Child in Me," students were invited to connect to the child within themselves and to craft a sound poem based on a childhood experience. Through abstraction, they were encouraged to play with language to create a soundscape through:
Students hyperlinked their "The Child in Me" poems to our class collection document entitled: "the child in me. SOuND poem. class collection" | |