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Hi there all, Happy National Poetry Month! It’s either Day 4 of National Poetry Month, and I’m super excited to be sharing one social media post per day about poetry! Today’s topic is all about play. I’m a naturally playful person — I love dad jokes, cheesiness, and laughter. This is what I try to […]
Read More Secondary Poetry Pedagogy as Play: Inspiring Word-WonderIt’s Day 10 of #NationalPoetryMonth, so I thought I’d share one of my favorite ten line poetic forms, the ovillejo. The slide above and the one below give some background on the form while also showing you some examples. I hope you write and share your ovillejos! Best, Scot
Read More Slides to Introduce You to the OvillejoDay 5/6 of #nationalpoetrymonth is a bit different. I wrote an occasional #poem , inspired by my first day at the Hong Kong Sevens tournament. I’ve been to two other tournaments at this stadium, and I can say that there is no place quite like it! This year is the 30th and last #hksevens to […]
Read More Day 5/6: An Occasional PoemIt’s break! And you know what that means — your friendly, neighborhood poet & high school writing teacher has a little more time on his hands for projects and whatnot. So in the midst of family celebrations, travel, and finalizing student report card grades, I’m taking some time to gift myself some practice in poetic […]
Read More Holiday Form Roulette – PantoumCheck out this post on ChatGPT and curating poetry for inclusion all year long.
Read More AI + Curriculum + Poems = A Powerful Combo© 2023 Scot Slaby Dear educator colleagues and students, As you may know, the iNotice Method and the “Noticing Poetry” unit plan are my signature approaches to helping students become more competent and confident readers of poems. Both the methodology and the unit plan work well in helping students become more competent and confident readers […]
Read More Introducing the iNotice Language Level Tracker!Since March is Women’s History Month, I thought I’d take some time to let readers know a few ways that the following poets have impacted my life’s journey in poetry and teaching. I’m ever grateful for their mentorship and support over the years. Please take some time read about the influence of these amazing poets […]
Read More Celebrating the Women Who Have Nurtured My Poet-Teacher LifeHappy National Poetry Month! I’m always revising my pedagogy about reading poems, continuing to make improvements on the iNotice Method and “Noticing Poetry” to make it clearer and more effective for teachers and students. A major problem I faced in my teaching the reading of poems has been that students rush to inference-making instead of […]
Read More Noticing Poetry: Getting Literal with Ideas to Arrive at Something to Say/WriteHi all! Would you like a free hard copy of Bugs Us All? I’ll be giving one away for National Poetry Month in the US! Each day from now until April 6, I’ll post one page from Bugs Us All, my collaboration with the amazing visual artist Walter Gurbo, on my professional Instagram account (@noticingpoetry). […]
Read More Book Giveaway for National Poetry Month 2022!As I write this, Hong Kong’s government is putting into place new systems to deal with the surge in Omicron by limiting public movement, sending people to isolation facilities, and keeping students and teachers on home learning (that is, if you’re at international schools, but if you’re at any other kind of school in Hong […]
Read More Wagging news doggerelI first met Dana Gioia at the West Chester Poetry Conference somewhere between 2008 and 2012. I was wearing a name tag that included where I lived at the time, Frederick, Maryland, a small city north of Washington, D.C., most famous for being the resting place of Francis Scott Key. Immediately after we shook hands, […]
Read More If you want to help anyone start their writing journey, show them thisThis past fall, I had the wonderful news that the city of St. Louis Park, Minnesota selected my poem above to be published as a piece of public art by being sandblasted into a sidewalk. I still don’t know exactly where my poem is located, and I look forward to others enjoying it and telling […]
Read More Something ConcreteSo it’s the first day of me teaching at a new school, taking a maternity cover position for a little while here in Hong Kong. While I wish I could be in person with my students, I only have a week to go! Here’s the poem I’m sharing with them today: And just like I […]
Read More Read Poems, Hong Kong! Episode 5: Richard Wilbur’s “A Barred Owl”So today is Day 7 of my quarantine in Hong Kong, and I’m 1/3 of the way through my stay here at the Dorsett Wanchai. I look forward to, like many “quarantiners” do, to meal time. The food here is good, and I’m well fed, but I find myself missing some of the comforts of […]
Read More Read Poems, Hong Kong! Episode 4: January Gill O’Neil’s “How to Make a Crab Cake”It’s August 31, 2021, and suffering from jet-lag, a pre-dawn posting.
Read More Read Poems, Hong Kong! Episode 2So it’s only Day 3 of of hotel quarantine, but I just did this. 🙂 Read more poems!
Read More My Hong Kong Hotel Quarantine Window MessageLast year, we lost much. We had been unable to return to our overseas jobs and home. My daughter and son had to start at a new school in the U.S., and we found ourselves beginning again, setting up a new home for the year, finding new jobs. It was a year ago yesterday that […]
Read More One year later: pandemic despair & hope, that thing, you know, with feathersAs you can probably tell from the lack of posts on this blog, I suspended posting here since late last spring/early summer. A combination of professional setbacks, personal tragedies and health issues over the past year necessitated my break from posting. However, as with all things spring, I’m emerging once again, especially since it’s National […]
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