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In the fall season of each year, SCORES scholar-athletes work together in teams to find their voices, using poetry as an important form of self-expression.  Exploring self-expression through poetry and creative writing encourages them to value their own perspectives.

Using the Power of Poetry Stanzas I+II curricula, our coaches and students spend the 10-week fall season in pursuit of five core objectives:

• Writing poems in a variety of forms (haiku, quatrain, limerick, etc.)
• Using the proper writing process of pre-writing, drafting, and revision.
• Understanding basic literary terminology and poetic devices, such as alliteration, simile, metaphor, synonym, and hyperbole.
• Addressing complex feelings, opinions, and issues in writing.
• Reciting their poetry in front of a group with confidence.

Poetry is an effective tool for improving literacy. Our poetry curricula facilitate significant academic objectives.

• Poetry teaches vocabulary, word form and usage, grammar and the process of composition writing.
• Studying poetry has pragmatic applications for the students—alliteration helps them with pronunciation and rhyme helps them remember words.
• Poetry teaches children to be at ease with self-expression through the written and spoken word.  This helps them gain the courage and ability to read, write and speak in their daytime classrooms.