Statement of intent

PRE- WRITING STAGE

As a warm up before writing today’s topic on the board or telling it, she reads the couplet of the poem to predict what the topic is.

Whose woods these are I think I know.

His house is in the village though;

He will not see me stopping here

By means of this technique the researcher wanted students be interested in new topic. And also, she impacted students on thinking critically.

Then they were asked to predict what kind of topic they would have. Also the students were given the time of two minutes think about the topic.

Moreover, they were divided into two mini groups and were given a boring poem. They were told to change some lines, words or use synonyms to make this poem colourful and meaningful. During 10 minutes both mini groups think critically and write through altering synonyms instead of some strange words. Whilst working on this poem students tried to remind all their vocabulary base and improved their logical and critical thinking abilities as much as possible. The researcher gave poem version which was altered and complicated works by the writer. By comparing with two different poems version which was in the same topic, students knew their attempts and find out strengthes and weaknesses in creating as weel as writing poems satisfactorily. Those who were not familiar with the poem guessed the title meaning to compare with true meaning of the poem later on. While doing this activity students were inspired to acquire knowledge related to writing poems and working, thinking, and creating poems together.