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M&Ms and Imagist Poems at Taft

On my first week with them, Ms. Taylor’s 8th Grade class dove right into creating Imagist-style poems, patterned after The Locust Tree In Flower by country doctor and poet, William Carlos Williams. We talked […]

Are You Smarter Than A 7th Grader? Parting Words at Taft (#1)

Believe it or not, we wrapped it up, last Tuesday for Ms. Munoz’s 7th Grade classroom in our exploration of: “Writer Who Are You: Identity Through Poetry.” Over the past 10 weeks we indeed […]

“Good thing love can make you happy and heard”: Shakespearean Sonnets at Taft

“This one goes out to you, babe,” exclaimed one 7th Grade Sonneteer in Ms. Munoz’s Language Arts Class as she dedicated her poem to a close friend. This week we dove into Shakespeare via […]

A Planet Full of Channing Tatums: Your Missed Destination Is Poetry

“All aboard!!!” (or not) in this 7th week of poetry at Taft. Ms, Munoz’s 7th Grade class looked at the poem, We Are Not Going To Malta by Latino poet, Richard Blanco. In this […]

This Book Smells Like Bees: Writing Yourself Into A Corner

This week at Taft, we looked at a truncated version of the Long Form poem, ‘Library’ by writer and toy collector, Albert Goldbarth. We took a look at its density and repetition and what […]

Who Is…William Carlos Williams? Our Perceptions of Things

This week had Taft 7th Graders trying their hand at the short Imagist style poetry, as in William Carlos William’s The Locust Tree In Flower. I had them listen to the First Version as […]

Hanging Whaaaaat? Details in Our Worries

This week we took a brave leap while examining our overall theme of, ‘Writer Who Are You: Identity Through Poetry.’ We looked at our own worries (or lack of) beginning with Audre Lorde’s poem, […]

You talkin’ to me? Looking At Our Lives Through Personification

Our fourth week had us looking at personification and the use of the vernacular in Frank O’Hara’s A True Account of Talking To the Sun At Fire Island, where the poet has a conversation […]

Like You: Looking At Our Lives Through Simile

For our 3rd Lesson, we started with a game. Students were broken up into groups, given random index cards with various words which might make up a string of simile. To the best of […]

Chew On This: How What We Eat Informs and Inspires

Ms. Munoz’s 7th Grade class took a bite out of poetry this week by reading Li-Young Lee’s, From Blossoms. We focused our discussion around the student’s favorite foods. Tastes ranged from cultural family favorites […]

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