Each week I will post an image and poetry to compliment it. I hope to give you inspiration and suggestions about how the image might be used.
Poetry to match
Why wait you here
With witching in mind?
Why look you out
What prey will you find?
What do you do
On eerie dark nights
What sparks you off
What sets you to flight
I'd rather not know
I would rather hide
Off you go then
Get off on your ride
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An interesting way to stimulate creativity in the classroom is to place a large image in a prominent place in the classroom and invite the students to respond to it in whatever mode suites their mood.
Some may want to act out; some may want to draw from the theme others may write poetry and others students might be challenged to write poetry in response.
If a play develops perhaps it could even be pushed as far as animation. Perhaps the students might like to create atmosphere in the room and carry the theme throughout the week.
If you have the energy to inspire and maintain enthusiasm Blogs in the classroom is a great idea. The example below was entered as a response to a Blog I keep
Fondling frogs and feeling soggy ( Owed 2 Tonyzonit)
That hat
Belongs to that fat old crone
Sighing in her room
Laughing on Hallows' Eve
at the cross disowned
I suppose it matters she was born
Even though she just pours scorn
Hiding in the night all foggy
Fondling frogs and feeling soggy
This poem from Tony Zonit is represented by illustration here
http://www.busywomen.com.au/slobber_frog...
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Blogs have an organisational impact on the classroom students can stay in contact and often write on their blogs even through the holiday period. Now that UTube allows students to upload movies, any thing is possible. The International Communication has benefits in the areas of Languages, Cultural Understanding, Geography, People and Society and of course throughout all of the Arts.
The world of the Internet is for an Art Student a Mecca of cultural and expressive interaction - the sooner you tune the students into it - the better!
