Poetry in the Adult ESL Classroom.
Learners can read, discuss, and write about poems and how they speak to their life situations.
They can also create poems of their own to express their feelings, thoughts, or beliefs. This digest discusses ways to select and use poetry in adult language and literacy classes and provides information about poetry collections and resources for further reading. Poems focus on outdoor work and office work, paid and unpaid work, as well as transitions such as retirement, unemployment, and looking for work. Today everyone quits working Ten minutes early and scuttles down to the lunchroom. Their poems provide glimpses into U.S. history and culture, and use colloquial language with simple, eloquent repetition.