Class Poem for 2014.

Graduation day has become the final count down for our Wyoming Seniors and it's time to pick the favorite class poem. Right now the staff has chosen the top 3 favorite that have been submitted. I have gotten the privilege to actually get to read them and so far all I can say is that the competition is fierce. I have gotten the opportunity to ask one of the teachers that are involved in picking the poem how it is they pick the best one to represent this years class of 2014.

Poem #1- Lengthy
The poem has a lot of wording and is quite touching especially referring to the seniors. It more focuses of the representation Wyoming has on the rest of the community and how them as students can poor the "rich kids" wrong in their way of thinking by holding their heads high forgetting the drama and putting the negative aside. The only problem I would say with it is that it's very wordy and is kind of repetitive in a way with what the authors main focus is trying to get across.

Poem #2-Motivational
This poem is more on the focus of memories and throughout the years the change those seniors have been through, and the path they get to choose after they have the diploma in their hands. It's a pretty good length but in my opinion it's kinda sketchy and confusing. Don't get me wrong it has potential but kinda leave me wondering and wanting a bit more description and to stay on the main focus of graduation. It's very motivating seeing the P.O.V of a senior and their mentality of life and how they want to succeed.

Poem #3- Cute and Quirky
This poem is my favorite personally. It rhymed and pretty much summed up the high school experience. I mean others would think it's too simple and main stream a bit for someone to just think of things that rhyme dealing with school but this poem does good thinking outside the box. The author who wrote this has a good thought of rhythm and beat even to each line. I mean of course it's not 100% perfect but it does a good job in summing up the senior feeling to ending their 2014 year.


So now I ask Mrs.Smith and she answered some of my questions:

1.How many people submitted in all?

There were 3 poems

2.(if possible) Who are the authors in the top 3?

Not sure who the authors were. Mrs. Tran knows that information.

 3.What's the process of picking the poem?

Poems were submitted to Ms. over the course of 3 weeks. We then took all the poems that were submitted and made copies of them and posted them around the school.We made sure to give each poem a name without an author so that students would not be swayed to pick someone just because they liked them better.  After that we gave a # to each poem and put it to a vote on a Google form.

4.How did the voting go online?

We had 1/2 the class vote.

5.Has the competition been fierce this year?

 It took a lot to get students to submit poems. We received three at the end of the 3 weeks.

6.Who will be the finalist?

# 3 won the vote

7.Was it hard to pick knowing all the students has potential?

The student vote on the poems so that we are not bias as a teacher to what student wins.

8. Is their a certain rubric you follow to pick the poem?

 There is no rubric. We look at all of them to make sure they are appropriate then bring the vote to the senior class.


So that was Mrs.Smith  P.O.V and I plan to maybe even go beyond and ask Mrs.Tran and her experience with the Class of 2014 poem contest.