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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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: […]

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 […]

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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