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Document Type
Lesson Plan
Publication Date
2025
Abstract
The chief reason our writing students turn to AI is not "laziness.” It’s fear. This lesson plan helps college students overcome their fear of a first-time poetry assignment by empowering them to partner with “collaborators”—first AI, then each other—to co-write a love poem before finally writing a poem on their own. This 4-hour lesson plan for a college-level Introductory Creative Writing course includes three low stakes drafting and revision assignments, and culminates in a high stakes poetry assignment.
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Comments
This classroom material was created for the 2024-25 CUNY Building Bridges of Knowledge program funded by the Lumina Foundation to support students to use generative AI ethically and responsibly.