The Iditarod at its very finest. I also love to have my students create acrostics. Again, they choose the subject matter but must master the acrostic format. We write a class acrostic together at the end of the unit on a topic that the students choose. Some have to scratch My students write a class poem, which involves a lot of give and take cooperation to agree to the lines.
Some students get very vested in one line or phrase and it is hard to come to group consensus.
But I enjoy the process and find that the students are incredibly proud of the class poem. When writing this poem, I could see how much my students had learned in a ten-minute video and a brief discussion about the northern lights. They suggested this topic for our class poem and I cringed. The students can up with all the other concepts and words. I e-mailed this one to the parents.