Random Words!

I just found a very interesting Web site called the Random Word Generator. There are many ways you could use this, including generating a random word and then basing a poem off of it, or using it more like a Mad Lib and filling in key words of well-know or original poems to make the poem say something different.

You could connect this exercise with the poem "Jabberwocky" by Lewis Carroll. If one of your goals is to teach your class grammar, you could make it more fun by giving the class some basic definitions of the parts of speech and then (either as a class, in groups, or individually) figuring out what part of speech each of the nonsense words in the poem is.