Writing Scots poetry
Description
Poet Liz Niven reads an excerpt from her poem 鈥楲et鈥檚 Hear Whit the Dragon鈥檚 Goat Tae Say鈥 to students at a Scots Scuil writing workshop. She encourages them to draft their own poems and discusses how they find it difficult to write in Scots. The group mix English and Scots and add more Scots words in the redraft. The students go on to create riddle poems and each choose one to read at a performance.
Classroom Ideas
Students can brainstorm a selection of Scottish words on the board and divide them into nouns, adjectives and verbs. Ask students to write their own 鈥榃hit am I?鈥 riddle poems, using these words. Students could also study some of Liz Niven鈥檚 poems, or other modern poems in Scots, to find words they can use in their own poems.
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