limericks in literature class?

why not? Limericks can be one of effective way to introduce students with poems, it is not as heavy as poems but it still share some features with poems. It is an interesting activity to do, and it also can be a good experience for students if they want to try to do ‘creative writing’. One thing that I had discovered from this activity is teacher must know how to manipulate every material that he has in order to suit the lesson with his students’ ability. In short, he must be creative, but of course it won’t be an easy work to do. For example during the ‘limerick’ activity, dr Edwin mentioned that instead of having the students to create their on limerick, we can have it by asking the students to arrange words in order to create one –especially for low level students. we can’t let this group of students being left out in our lesson just because of their language limitation, therefore we must know how to help them to participate in the class activity.