It's also Poetry Month, and on Tuesdays, I am choosing to share a poetry lesson. This is lesson two, another about line breaks, but this time, I use poems to teach about enjambment, defined as the continuation of a sentence or clause over a line-break.
As a poetry group, before this lesson, we've already shared lots of poems we love by others, and read and responded to each others' original poems. We have talked about poets taking special care when they want the reader to pause, i.e., create a line break. I usually meet with the group only as a facilitator, and share tips and knowledge as it seems appropriate to what is being written or shared. There always is a good time for this lesson, one of revision.