Playing with Poetry: A Game For The Class

Looking for inspiration? Grab some dice, counters, and paper, and print out the gameboard below.

Instructions:

This game works best in pairs.

Each player throws the dice. The player with the highest total starts the play: 

Place your counter on the space marked “GO,” throw the dice, and move your counter to the number of spaces indicated by the dice.

Each space contains a prompt. Use that prompt to write a line of poetry. If you land on a space with 3 words, include at least one of those words in your line.

If you land on a space containing a prompt followed by an ellipsis, use that prompt at the beginning of your line of poetry.

When both players have arrived at the end of the game, they will have the bones of a poem!

Next week, we will focus on reworking and polishing the poetry from this game.