Mary Ann's Poetry Demo

I believe that Mary Ann has a great love and devotion to her students and their overall well-being, and she strives to help them to build self-esteem through positive awareness.  Mary Ann has shown us how we can reinforce caring for one another in her demo, and she did it in a fun and non-threatening way by creating a scenario by using  the post-its that the students could build upon.  I loved her use of the "I Am Poem" because even though poetry is not my forte, this lesson does help to introduce the concepts of poetry in a class. This could be a fun way to begin a unit on poetry, and this could be the framework for maybe using the same poem to create multiple styles of poetry; for instance, take the idea from free verse, to ballads, to even sonnets (but form would have to be seriously revised to fit into a 14 line sonnet, but the concept could still shine through)!  I loved the lesson, and though I really am not into country music at all, that song was interesting and relevant to the lesson.  Job well done!