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A Place In The Sun

A lesson on Personification, giving human qualities to something non-human via the poem, A True Account of Talking to the Sun at Fire Island. We took a look at Frank O’ Hara’s touching and […]

‘We’re All Sitting At The Table’ : Finding a place…in poetry.

A common household object became the focus for this lesson, while studying Joy Harjo’s poem, Perhaps the World Ends Here. Students were asked to begin the lesson by sketching an eating surface that they […]

Food For Thought: Memories Sparked and Chewed Over

A discussion of food and memory began our class in preparation to study Gary Soto’s Narrative Style poem, Oranges. Nostalgia and feelings came up a lot in our talks. What emotions are attached to […]

Table Service

A common household object became the focus for this lesson, while studying Joy Harjo’s poem, Perhaps The World Ends Here. Lesson Note: Harjo once commented, “I feel strongly that I have a responsibility to […]

Travel Advisory

We took a look at Richard Blanco’s prose/mix poem about missed destinations, We Are Not Going To Malta. Students were then given travel brochures exhibiting lush locales (decidedly not always depicting reality), and asked […]

Tree Lined

.We dug right in to examine William Carlos Williams’ minimalist Imagist style poem, The Locust Tree In Flower. This poem is inspired by William’s interest in minimal / abstract art of the day (1930s). […]

Blackout!

This week we explore examples of student’s Blackout Poetry! A blackout poem is when a poet takes a marker (usually black marker) to already established text–like in a newspaper–and starts redacting words until a […]

Preparing The Pallete

Students at Lane Tech engaged in a writing exercise where they created their ‘life story’ in 24 words. They were then instructed to whittle that number down to one word. Via interviewer to interviewee […]

‘I ponder over the peach’: Food & Memory

A discussion of food and memory began our class in preparation to study Gary Soto’s Narrative Style poem, Oranges. Nostalgia and feelings came up a lot in our talks. What emotions are attached to […]

The Giving Tree

We dug right in to examine William Carlos William’s minimalist Imagist style poem, The Locust Tree In Flower This poem is inspired by William’s interest in minimal / abstract art of the day (1930s). […]

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