Webquests

Learning About Poetry! Name:____________________


Date:_____________________

Subject: Language

Professor: Brandy Aguilar



Introduction: In order to write a poem, you can dive into the world of words and create a raw, free form poem. Or, you can learn more about the origins of poems from around the world! You can even collect poems from the masters or poems from people online!

Task: You should be able to find the answers to all these questions: What is a free style poem? What is a haiku? What is iambic pantameter? Name a famous poet and copy and paste one poem from them that you like. What other styles of poems are there?

Process: Go online and use google.com to find all of your answers. Do not use wikipedia and be able to give references of all the information you collect. Not to mention that all the information that you gather must be written in your own words!

Resources: Use these websites to start and branch out into other websites that is helpful for the topic.

http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/







http://www.types-of-poetry.org.uk/









Evaluation: The reason we did this activity was for you to learn all about poetry without me standing in front of you all day telling you all the definitions.

Conclusion: Good job! Now I encourage you to use the knowledge you collected in order to make your poems!

I think webquests are a fun way to engage the kids and have them do research on their own without you having to spoon feed every little detail.  I love it because of course they will have to do some hunting online which will keep them busy for a while. Although I feel that these kids will just copy off of each other if it is done often. But a good way to change things up at least.