Drawing Someone Else’s POV
How can we use art to tell someone else’s story?
During this lesson students will create a collaborative poem together. From that poem, students will choose a line to represent through art. They will draw a visual representation of someone else’s line from the poem and reflect together.
Learning Outcomes
Students will be able to create a collaborative poem with their classmates/community.
Students will be able to create a visual representation from someone else’s words.
Materials
- Paper
- Pencils
- Poster paper
- “I Saw” Poem
Preview Lesson Plan
Part One: Collaborative I Saw Poem- class creates an “I Saw” poem together based on a prompt.
10 minutes
- Say: Today we are going to start by creating a poem together. This poem is called an “I saw…” poem. This is because every line begins with the words “I saw”. I am going to read an example to you now.

