Prose Poetry Peer-Editing Activity
Prose Poetry Peer-Editing Activity
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Description
This activity can be used in conjunction with the Prose Poetry Writing Model: Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven" Activity, Prose Poetry Brainstorming Activity, and the Prose Poetry Writing Activity.
After reading the model poem The Wind, a brief discussion should ensue that focuses on the rhythm, rhyme, use of stanzas, literary elements and repetition as they are similar to Poe’s ‘The Raven’ This discussion could lead into the Prose Poetry Brainstorming Activity and the Prose Poetry Writing Activity .
Peer-Editing Directions
In a classroom setting, students could exchange double-spaced rough drafts with a group member and/or a partner. If preferred or for a home setting, self-editing could also be modified from the directions below. Read the rough draft once. Follow the preceding carefully.
On (partner's) rough draft, the editor should indicate the following as described below.
- Underline two or three impressive ideas.
- Make a wavy line under two or three ideas that are not completely clear.
- Circle two or three ideas that could be described more vividly.
- Box two vocabulary words taken from the poems.
- Put an asterisk next to an idea that could be told more explicitly to add depth to the story.
- Place parentheses around any part of the story that uses a literary device (possibilities listed below) AND write what literary device was used in the space below it.
- onomatopoeia
- assonance
- repetition
- symbolism
- internal rhyme
- alliteration
After completing the editing activity, write a final draft. In a classroom setting, students could be given two grades; one for content and one for grammar/mechanics.
Essential Question
How can writers apply the technique, style, and language of a 19th century writer?