Audience and Revision: Middle Schoolers Slam Poetry Judith Jester
Describes organizing a poetry "slam" (a contest in which people read their original poems and listeners cast votes for their favorites) involving 200 eighth graders from two different schools. Discusses how this experience made vivid for students the need to write for an audience and to revise. Voices from the Middle, Vol. 4 No. 1, February 1997
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