Ahhhhhhh... so great! Zaccheus Jackson, spoken word artist, visited us today, and performed, taught and shared his work with us. After teaching us a little bit about the history of spoken word, Zaccheus performed four of his poems for us. Such an amazing synthesis of rhyme, movement, volume, rate and energy!
After performing for us, Zaccheus ran students through three short writing exercises. First, he had us list a noun (anything... something random), and then we listed an animal that the noun reminded us of. Finally, we had to write an adjective we associated with the animal. Then we crossed out the animal, and flipped the order of the noun and adjective. We ended up with a super cool personified object. We had things such as "sultry sunglasses".... Then students were asked to write about gravity, using all the senses. Then, to conclude, Julianna was asked to read her horoscope as an angsty seagull. That's right... an angsty seagull.
Zaccheus wanted us to see the three stages of writing spoken word: write your words, amplify them, and then perform them. A great class!
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