A 9th Grader’s Exquisite Corpse
Justin Earl
| GRADE LEVEL: | JHS 3 |
| SKILLS: | Writing/Reading/Listening |
| TIME: | 20 minutes |
| MATERIALS: | Paper |
| YEAR: | 2007 |
OBJECTIVES:
1. Activity to go along with New Horizon 3, page 30-31, poem writing activity.
2. Practice free writing, or show that they can write things in English that don’t really make sense but that can still be interesting and entertaining.
PROCEDURE:
1. Divide students into groups of four. Pass out pieces of paper (one piece for each group), and tell students to fold paper into four sections. Look at the example on the next page and it will be clearer how to fold the paper.
2. Then explain that the first student in the group writes in the top section an article + an adjective. Then the first kid should fold the paper to the next section concealing what she wrote, and pass the paper to the second kid. The second kid writes a noun. Folds, passes to third kid. Third kid writes a verb. Folds, passes to fourth kid. Forth kid writes an emotion.
3. Then the paper passes around group second time with kids writing 1) article + adjective, 2) place, 3) verb, 4) emotion.
4. Then they can pass around once more for drawing: 1) head, 2) body, 3) legs, 4) feet.
5. Finally they unfold the paper, read it together, and correct verb conjugation or other grammatical mistakes. Then each group comes up to the front of the class to read their poem.
NOTES:
You can change the sentence structure as you like to make for more complicated sentences
There were some fun results. My favorite had a drawing of me wearing women’s lingerie
HANDOUTS and WORKSHEETS:
An example of work created by this activity is here
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