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Last Day Party!

Today was our last day of our poetry at Haugan! I’ll be honest, there were a few tears here and there! I’m so thankful to have been able to spend the year with these […]

Field Trip to Ronan Park

We had an exciting week at Haugan Elementary School! Instead of our normal classroom day, we went on a field trip to Ronan Park! We partnered with the North River Commission to write ekphrastic […]

Revisions

This was our second-to-last class! The students at Haugan had the fantastic idea of creating a poetry yearbook to remember our year together! Today we worked on creating and decorating our final revisions for […]

Summer in Chicago!

Although it is supposedly Spring, things have been pretty gloomy around here! In order to try to welcome some warmer weather, we read “Knoxville, TN” by Nikki Giovanni and relished her very specific descriptions […]

What is art?

At Haugan Elementary this week, we studied the Dada art movement. We talked about how the Dada art movement, focused on randomness and absurdity, came out of a period of intense trauma and discussed […]

Metaphors for Belonging-5th grade

In Ms. Robinson-Sanchez’s 5th grade class, we read Francisco X. Alarcón’s Natural Criminal (in English and Spanish) and thought about the ways that he used metaphor to describe the ways he did not feel like […]

Metaphors for Belonging-6th grade

In Ms. Mild-Thomas’s class, we readFrancisco X. Alarcón’s Natural Criminal (in English and Spanish) and thought about the ways that he used metaphor to describe the ways he did not feel like he belonged impacted […]

Ekphrastic Poems for Ronan Park

At Haugan we worked with the North River Commission to write ekphrastic poems about sculptures at Ronan Sculpture Park! In a few weeks, we’ll go to the park to see the sculptures and have […]

Stories We Need to See

The 8th graders at Haugan read (and watched) Danez Smith’s “Dinosaur in the Hood” and discussed the kinds of movies we want to see in the world. We thought a lot about how he […]

Poems as Superheroes–5th grade

In Ms. Robinson-Sanchez’s 5th grade 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 […]

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