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POETRY WRITING GUIDE FOR SCHOOLS

Stuart Butler

8th October 2002

POETRY WRITING GUIDE FOR SCHOOLS
FOR KICK IT OUT AND BLACK HISTORY MONTH
click here to find out how to win a Kick It Out T-shirt in our poetry competition”

Make rough notes on the following before you start to construct your poem.
1.Do you have any personal experiences you want to write about? – for example, playing in a game.
2.Any experiences or ideas from watching sport in a crowd, on TV, or reading?
3. Any thoughts about stars and racism? – for example, Henry and Heskey in European games this season.
4. Your thoughts about how you want to see Britain develop as a multi-cultural society in this new century.
5. Research to help you – good websites, www.kickitout.org excellent with good links too. Also click on our Kick Racism Out logo on our home page and click on the Channel 4 logo – that will take you to the excellent C4 Black and Asian History website. Also, look at www.cbc-clcstudents.org.uk – click on 4 Teachers and then click on writing frames(with pictures to view) – the one on Bend It Like Beckham will be especially helpful. It will lead you into thinking about how to build a successful multi-cultural 21st century Britain.

NOW YOU ARE READY TO CONVERT YOUR ROUGH NOTE INTO YOUR POEM. HERE’S A FEW CLUES AND IDEAS ABOUT HOW TO WRITE.
(a.) Don’t think of a rhyme first! If you do then your search for the next rhyme will control your thoughts! Let your thoughts control your search for a rhyme!
(b.) If you are rhyming, will your poem rhyme on every other line – ababab etc? Or will you go for rhyming couplets – aa, bb, etc?
(c.) Will you have the same number of syllables in each line or not?
(d.) Will you write blank verse – no rhyme but the same number of each syllables on each line?
(e.) Or free verse – no rhyme and lines of different length and syllable number.
(f.) Or an acrostic poem – eg:
K
I
C
K

I
T

O
U
T

You can, of course, make up your own relevant acrostic! Good luck! We look forward to your entry and good luck with the prizes! And many thanks for joining in

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