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Lipstick Stains, Elisa L. Klaassen

TYGR: Student Art and Literary Magazine 2018-present

Abstract

I wrote my poem “Lipstick Stains” for an assignment for my Writing Poetry class. We were told to look at a list of shapes and write out all of the ideas and images that the shapes brought to our minds. When looking at a certain shape, I was reminded of the shape of lips, leaves, pistachios, crab pincers, and kisses. The idea for the poem immediately came to me, and I based much of it on true experiences and memories from people in high school. Even the little plant cutting is real, growing only two leaves in a brown …

Data Diving Into “Noticing Poetry”: An Analysis Of Student Engagement With The “I Notice” Method, Scot Slaby, Jordan Benedict

Journal of Inquiry and Action in Education

This paper explores students’ engagement in reading poems, examining data on their self perceptions of their confidence and competence in reading poems before, during, and after using the “I Notice” methodology as adapted from The Academy of American Poets’ unit plan, “Noticing Poetry” (Slaby, 2017). The data was collected over the course of a month from January 9 through January 30, 2018 and involved five classes of one hundred general English tenth grade students across three teachers’ classrooms at Shanghai American School’s Puxi High School Campus. Data indicates that the “I Notice” method and the “Noticing Poetry” unit and its …