POETRY WRITING WORKSHOP NUMBER 3 GO: THE CHANT AND THE ENVOI

Berengarten discusses poetry writing workshop Number 3 Go. This is an engaging game, with many possible variants. It's capable of generating fine results, often from students who a teacher might not have expected to write well, or to be especially motivated. The aim of the game is, gently and playfully, to touch hopes and aspirations, and to enable students to articulate these. The game is fun, simple to present, and suitable for students of all abilities to enter and follow with ease and confidence. It operates through various stages, which one can take students through gradually. He has tried it out successfully both in small classroom situations and in large workshops, with three or four classes of year-eight students, all assembled together in the school hall. It wall work as a generative activity for all secondary levels, as well as in adult writing workshops. The game is based on the medieval envoi.