Give guidance and feedback to students' plans, encouraging, refining, and helping them to be responsible for their own learning. Maintain high expectations for completion of chosen options. Summarize by reviewing the whole, bringing students "full circle" to the experience with which the learning began.
Groups decide on common theme. Students write and submit poetry.
Objective: To encourage students' belief in personal viewpoint and creativity.
Activity: Groups reform and decide on a common problem, a common emotion, or a common viewpoint. They are then assigned, as individuals, to write a poem on that subject.
