Poetic Assessment

Twas the night before Thursday and all through the house, all the ITSers were stirring, with rhymes for each verse????.  Well you get the point.  So, I went to school the very next day, and because we had just finished a unit, it was test day!!  Yay!!!!
In class I have been using a website produced by Henrico County that has everything you need to know for Geometry.  Already produced worksheets and powerpoints, along with some other connections.  The only things it is missing is the assessment pieces.  So I, who am a newby when it comes to teaching Geometry, have been pairing up the lessons from online to the sections of the book.  This way I can draw questions from the assessment pieces from our book.  Well, after each test, the students have made it clear they didn't like the format.  I have now changed it up 4 times for 4 tests.  So I decided to use the same types of poems that we used in class the night before to help in the assessment.  We paired up and the kids were to come up with four different types of poems for the material that we have covered.  Since it was their first time, I wanted to go light on them in terms of grading.  They did a great job!!  They were laughing and actually having fun.  I had them read them aloud and it was fun to see how humble they became.  For the majority, they were able to draw some of the basic concepts from the lessons and put it into words.  For some, they were able to take the tougher concepts and produce fun little poems.  It really helped me see where the students were in their understanding.  Many obviously hadn't crossed from their middle school understanding of triangles to the deeper concepts.  One group focused on their frustration of having to learn these things.  I finished up the assessment with an 8 question multiple choice test.  Given that I may use this form of assessment again, I will make sure that I will bring up their old poems and let them know a little more specifically what I am looking for.  It also would've been nice if I had time to produce a better rubric.  The one I handed them was a little rushed and only covered the basic understanding of the poems.  I needed to make sure they covered the specifics of what they had learned.  Whatever the case, the students had fun in a math class.  That in itself is an achievement.