Today we began a poetry unit.  We started a quickwrite called "The Music in My Heart".  Students wrote down lyrics and lines from songs that brought memories back to them or spoke to their emotions.   We watched a clip from the movies "Dead Poet's Society" which talked about "What is poetry".  We will be doing a film analysis and group assignments within the next two weeks as well as beginning the creatation of a poetry anthology of original and collected poetry.