Mary Lee (ninja!) had a great rant on acrostic poetry today.
"One of my pet peeves: people who write a word or name vertically, write the first word that comes to mind that starts with each letter of the vertical word, AND THEN CALL IT A POEM!! (Even pricklier pet peeve: teachers who TEACH that such a form is a poem!!)"
Yes!
But then she goes on to actually teach a good way to do this with a focus on revision. What a great way to make the idea of revision stick and be truly meaningful to the students.
I'm stealing it!
