What type of game explains a poem while involving others in the lesson?

I can't seem to get my creative juices flowing at the moment, and I need to come up with some sort of simple-ish game that can explain a poem( who the speaker is, tone/mood, summary, theme, symbolism, ect), but the game has to invlove a class of students. I was thinking throwing a ball or having food rewards, but I don't know what I would do to teach the lesson|||It all depends on the age of your students. However, try this: put all the elements you want to discuss into a hat/box/can and pass this to one of your students...they pull out the piece of paper and read the element (tone, summary, theme, form, etc.) then try to answer the question. If they can't answer it, the paper is passed to the next student, and the next, until someone can answer it. If nobody can answer it, the original student keeps the piece of paper and the can moves to the next student...after the teacher explains the answer...if one of the students answers the question, they keep the paper and pull out the next one. The game continues until all the pieces of paper are gone, and the winner (soda, apple, whatever) is the one with the most pieces of paper. This can be modified so anyone with a piece of paper get a prize, a star, whatever, and many poems can be used to increase the number of pieces of paper. The winner may result from several days worth of gaming, or each day. Also, after each question has been answered, the teacher would provide amplification on the answer provided by the student along with explanations as to how that part contributes to the overall nature of the poem. Oh...and of course, the can gets refilled for each poem.





hope this helps.