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Fun On The Internet!

Ms. Widman High School Creative Writing   This week the students at Amundsen had fun on the internet. We read “Freedom” by Kimberly Ann Southwick and “Poem with Kennings and Nuka Cola” by Reilly […]

Blackouts and Centos

Ms. Widman High School Creative Writing   This week the students at Amundsen had fun making their own blackout poems and centos. We talked about source texts and how the language of certain writings […]

Story Time

Ms. Widman High School Creative Writing   This week the students at Amundsen had a classic story time lesson. We talked about fairy tales and family memories we enjoyed. The poems we read this […]

Funny Ha Ha Poems, Kinda

Ms. Widman High School Creative Writing   This week the students at Amundsen tried their best at a difficult topic in poetry: humor. We read “The Moon” by David Berman and talked about how […]

Love Poems, Ugh

Ms. Widman High School Creative Writing   This week the students at Amundsen were in the Valentine’s Day valley of love poems. They were not excited. I’m kidding, I brought chocolate and they were […]

Chicago Over Everything

Ms. Widman High School Creative Writing   This week the students at Amundsen looked at prose poems and explored how pace can be reimagined in a formal structure that lacked line breaks and enjambment. […]

Praise You

Ms. Widman High School Creative Writing This week the students at Amundsen explored poems of praise and celebration. We read poems decades apart, starting with Lucille Clifton’s “won’t you come celebrate with me” and […]

First This Happened, Then This, But Before That

Ms. Widman High School Creative Writing   This week the students at Amundsen read “Backwards” by Warsan Shire. We discussed biographical and semi-autobiographical poetry. For the brainstorming exercise, each student was given a photo […]

Slow Down, Heaven Can Wait

Ms. Widman High School Creative Writing   This week the students at Amundsen looked at James Dickey’s “Heaven of Animals” and we discussed how pace is conveyed in poetry/storytelling. They were tasked with the […]

Like Like Like, A Simile

Ms. Widmen High School Creative Writing   Like Like Like, A Simile   This week we focused on the simile and read Mark Cox’s “Like a Simile ”. The students then played a condensed […]

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