Making+Poetry+Relevant

By: Alyssa Topham
 * Alyssa Topham:** Let's face it, poetry is sometimes hard to sell to kids these days. They feel it doesn't apply to their lives, or they can't connect to it. So, as teachers what can we do about that? Although we are required to teach certain mandatory elements of poetry, why can't we do it with poems that our students will connect too? This project looks at exactly that and hopefully gives some ideas to help make poetry a "modern" element in the classroom.