I really enjoyed reading about I poems. I had never really learned to much about I poems. I think that I poems would be a great way to introduce a first person perspective to your students. If a teacher uses I poems in their class I feel that students would really be engaged. I know that first, like the article said, you would have to give examples, but once they saw how much fun it could be I think they would really get into it. I really like how I poems evoke emotion and are so descriptive. When I read the examples it made me feel like I was there with the person who was writing it. It makes you really think about how the other person might have been feeling when they wrote the poem.
I think that this article gave excellent ways to present how to start writing I poems. It even gave the ”I am” model that students could plug their ideas into. I think having models like the “I am” format is good for those students that really need solid examples and that really struggle with coming up with ideas without any help. I know that when I was in school I always became worried when it was time to write because teachers just kind of threw us into it and I felt like I was left there to fend for myself with no examples or strategies of good ways to write. I think that by giving examples, making our own examples together as a class, and then even having models to fill in really help students that struggle with writing. I feel that it really helps to boost their esteem because they don’t feel like they are failing all the time.
After reading this article I really got excited about writing one of these poems and I have never enjoyed and never thought I would even think about enjoying poetry. The I poems really give the writer a chance to step into someone else’s life and to visualize what it would have been like for them. When I was reading this article I really wished that I was teaching an older grade so that I could have my students write I poems. I have never really wanted to teach above 2nd grade but when activities like this are presented it makes me wish that I could really dive into them with my students and just get them so excited about writing. I am really looking forward to writing an I poem.
