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Taking Flight: An Addendum

For our closing 7th Grade activity, students fashioned paper airplanes that took to the wind as a symbolic act in honor of poet, Ruth Stone’s quote about how a poem ‘thundered through her,’ from […]

Cutting Up!

For our final poem, we created cut- up poetry. We used found language and images to create new meaning. Lesson Note: Creative Artist guru, Julia Cameron, says the part of us that creates art […]

Cutting Up

To wind up our lessons, we created cut up poems! We used found language and images to create new meaning. Lesson Note: Creative Artist guru, Julia Cameron, says the part of us that creates […]

Be A Kid…Again! Nostalgia and Memory in Poetry

Students shared childhood stories before writing their own poem reflecting back on their younger selves, as the speaker does in Billy Collins’ poem, On Turning Ten. Lesson Note. “I think one of the strengths […]

‘I remember/ all of it’: Nostalgia & Memory in Poetry

8th Grade students shared childhood stories before writing their own poems about the act of ‘putting away’ and ‘looking forward’ as the speaker did in Nate Marshall’s poem, ‘the last graduation.’ Lesson Note: “I […]

‘I’m going here but I/ don’t plan on staying. : Constructed Futures in Poetry

cussin on the court till your little brother shows up with a half a candy bar kid -Eve L. Ewing, to the notebook kid This lesson centered around Eve L. Ewing’s consoling poem, […]

Syntax Error

Students played word games that centered around sound and creative syntax before delving into Kevin Young’s poem of altered cliché’s, Errata. ‘Errata’ means an error in a written text. Lesson Note: ‘There is no […]

O so now your weaving mi?: Creative Syntax in Poetry

Students were given nonsense words and asked to create their own pronunciations and definitions, before delving into Kevin Young’s poem of altered cliché’s, Errata ‘Errata’ means an error in a written text. Lesson Note: […]

‘My father, to whom I consider’: Hero Poems…of All Kinds

What makes a hero (both real or imagined)? And how can we learn from them (even the villains) and the inner- hero inside of us? We explored those concepts and more in What I […]

‘When I see Superman/I see power I see’: Hero Poetry

What makes a hero (both real or imagined)? How can we learn from them (even the villains) and the inner- hero inside of us? We explored those concepts and more in What I Learned […]

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