Today most students took a reading triweekly. As a result, I only saw two classes. We took our “Fun with Words” poem and I asked them to pick their favorite line in that poem. They then had to create a second poem with that line as a starting point. There was plenty of grumbling and wondering if I lived to torture them. I had to confess that I’d done this activity during a writing class I took several years ago, so that while I felt their pain, I also knew that it was a great way of generating ideas.