Bad Gods | Famous Poems Rewritten as Limericks
The Raven
There once was a girl named Lenore
And a bird and a bust and a door
And a guy with depression
And a whole lot of questions
And the bird always says “Nevermore.”
What a great project for all sorts of reasons and it doesn’t have to be just poems you could do novel or short stories or even speeches (I Have a Dream as a limerick?)
You’d get students
- learning limericks and other poetry skils
- really analyzing the work they’re limericking (I know that’s not a word- humor me)
- getting to the essence of the work they’re analyzing
- having fun
- creating a shareable product
- something that’s easy and quick to grade but deep in terms of processing and creativity
It could also work for explaining scientific principals, historical events/people etc. Lots of options.
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