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Teaching poetry to younger generations
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At Family Days, a Saturday open house at the Poetry Center, is composed of games, reading and activities led by UA honors students. This weekend’s Family Day will focus on how varied mediums of communication can change language.
poetry can connect students with history, as well as to show how it can be used in everyday he University of Arizona Poetry life. The challenge for the honors students is Center and UA honors students from to create a variety of lesson plans that engage the College of Humanities know that students of a wide range of ages, Minor said. This weekend’s event will center on teaching can be the best way to learn. The Poetry Center holds “Family communication and how the medium used Day” one Saturday each month. The to communicate can complicate language and can become poetry, she community outreach added. event is designed to be One topic at the enjoyable for everyone event will discuss how from kindergartners the use of typewriter to high schoolers. This or an antiquated mode is one of the many of communication can opportunities for honors — Sarah Minor, change what work is students to interact with UA Poetry Center,Interim Education produced. Hands-on an audience of various Programs Coordinator activities and workshops ages to explore poetry for the visitors to engage and teaching methods in will include storytelling, bookmaking and in a group environment. The bonus of sharing the varieties of language movement. The events delve into how teachers can push and poetry through these outreach programs is that the honors students are learning through students to learn through play. The setup has teaching others, rather than simply sitting in a families working together and exploring the ideas and projects as a group. classroom, organizers said. “Introducing poetry as a way of “There’s something about teaching in understanding another subject, or another front of a group that you just can’t learn in a classroom, exactly,” said Sarah Minor, the human who is writing, or as a way to bring an interim education programs coordinator at the art form into your life that you weren’t familiar with really does affect people a lot,” Minor said. Poetry Center. The program is a purposeful exploration “I see poetry sort of making the past more real.” of the process of teaching and learning, underlining awareness through opportunities for hands-on learning. Its goal is not to — Follow Andrea Thomas popularize poetry, but rather to show how @act3033
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“I see poetry sort of making the past more real.”