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Emotions + Metaphor

Last week at Dever Elementary 7th grade students explored Metaphors for the first time. We discussed the ways we use metaphors in our everyday language and about how metaphors allow us to more deeply […]

Revisions

Today, we spent some time revising poems that we had already written and were excited about. We had a poetry reading and the students did an amazing job! Animals Sherlyn Cats are so cute […]

Shout Out Week Continued

Week 11 with Dever’s 7th grade was a continuation of sharing pieces and celebrating how much we have accomplished. We revisited and reviewed what an affirmation is and how to give and use them. […]

Affirmation + Shout out Week

Dever’s 7th graders had an affirming week back. After an extra long break for due to CPS’s pauses was one focused on grounding the classes back into the learning we have done together. We […]

I want a poem that can…

In Ms. Carteno’s class, we read Blk Girl Art by Jamila Woods and discussed what we want poems to be able to do in the world. We imagined our poems as superheroes, able to […]

Running into a New Year

In Ms. Carteno’s 6th grade classes, we read Lucille Clifton’s “[running into a new year]” and thought about how we’re moving into this new year through these complicated times. We talked a lot about […]

Persona Poems + Rhyme

In week 6 at Dever Elementary the 7th grades of Ms. Sherfinski and Ms. Carteno’s class got festive right in time for a long break. Students read Christmas Tree by Evelyn P. a peer […]

Poems of direct address

This week, we read and talked about poems that talk to a specific audience. We talked about the ways that our poems could care for someone we love and wrote poems that talked right […]

If I were an animal…

In Ms. Carteno’s 6th grade class, we read Ada Limon’s “How to Triumph like a Girl” and discussed how through using the metaphor of a horse, the poem told us something new about the […]

Rhyme: I Feel Free

Week 4 at Dever was a week to focus on Rhyme. Students wrote pieces about what freedom means to them and used rhyme as their featured poetic device. We learned about rhyme as corresponding […]

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