Discussion

As we had students use the mrad model of writing essays it proved to be really helpful to have the discussion part as everything was to set up the concept of what they would do as a poem and then the discussion would reveal how they could take the poem in New Directions as well as give them the chance for reflection on if there poem did set out to do what they did. One poem student decided to write about her Filipino and Caucasian backgrounds being who she is and she just wrote out in words like a free right as we just covered trance Poetics. She then developed the overall driving figure metaphor of coffee for her poem and she had another student do the artwork in coffee so she could make a broadside to pass out during a student presentation conference.