Poetry

Every student in our IEW class has been given a poem to memorize. Poems should be memorized by September 19, 2018.

Have you ever considered the benefits of poetry?  There are quite a few! 

"The way the words roll off the tongue, it’s as if a poem craves to be spoken aloud. The rhyme, the meter, the emotion. Not satisfied with merely being read silently, a poem comes to life when it is spoken.*

"Even after almost three millennia of written literature, poetry retains its appeal to the ear as well as to the eye; to hear a poem read aloud by someone who understands it, and who wishes to share that understanding with someone else, can be a crucial experience, instructing the silently reading eye ever thereafter to hear what it is seeing. Better yet is reading aloud that way oneself." **

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IEW article by *Jennifer Mauser 

**Poets.org