The poems tell how they will spread joy this holiday season. Students create poems in the shape of a Christmas tree.
Students learn to use formatting commands in word processing programs to center text.
Students will then create poems in the shape of a Christmas tree to express ways to spread joy during the holiday season. All they need to do is input their poems into the word processing program. Students can set up the poems so that the first line is the shortest one, the top of the Christmas tree. Then each line of the poem grows successively longer, forming the body of the tree, until the last three lines, which are short. See the sample below.