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    A workshop on "the Snow Man" teaches students how to render an image with their body. The workshop also teaches them how to write a poem that starts with a noun and ends with a verb. After reading the poems, have students jot down images or lines that strike them from classmates' poems.

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    A workshop on "the Snow Man" teaches students how to render an image with their body. The workshop also teaches them how to write a poem that starts with a noun and ends with a verb. After reading the poems, have students jot down images or lines that strike them from classmates' poems.

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    A workshop on "the Snow Man" teaches students how to render an image with their body. The workshop also teaches them how to write a poem that starts with a noun and ends with a verb. After reading the poems, have students jot down images or lines that strike them from classmates' poems.

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    Workshop 5 FW (5 mins) Read: The Snow Man (5 mins) 1st X: just read (one stanza/person) 2nd X: mark words,

    phrases, etc. that strike you for any reason Discuss vocabulary confusion (shouldnt be any) FFW: Prompt: Why is it entitled The Snow Man? (5 mins) Share (volunteers) (5-10 mins) (20-25 mins) Read a 3rd X: choose a section for a response FFW: respond to the section (can be analytical, poetic, list, fictional, whatever) (5 mins) Share responses (5-10 mins) (approx: 40 mins) (discussion only if there seems to be a significant disagreement in interpretation, keep brief) Next: Write down 2 nouns, put them on separate pieces of small paper, put the paper in a hat (box, cup, garbage can, whatever) pass the hat around draw two nouns (put it back if its your own) While drawing, have students stand up and pose like one of the images in The Snow Man until its their turn to draw [they should return to the pose after drawing]):

    Using your 2 nouns, write a poem that starts (10 minutes altogether, 15 if the noun drawing takes too long): One must have a ________ of _____________ To__[verb]___ Pass poems down to two desks to the left, read the poems (10 mins) (probably at 60 mins now) (have students jot down images or lines that strike them from classmates poems, ask them to try to come with titles for other students poems [based on previous conversation about The Snow Man], they may volunteer these jots after each poem is read) After reading all of the poems, pass them down, randomly tell them to stop Read your classmates poem silently to yourself Choose one image from the poem, FFW on that image (5 mins) Spend 1 minute thinking about how to physically render that image with your body Go around the room: physical rendering (have students guess what the image is supposed to be)

    (70-80 mins) Process notes (if theyre stuck, they can write on whether the poem they wrote is plagiarized or not; how did having a classmate read your poem influence the meaning/reception?) if time: share process notes if still time: go for process notes sprints

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