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Last week at Moos, we continued to stretch our poetic imaginations with reverse personification poems of nature delight! We had fun reading “The Delight Song of Tsoai-talee” by N. Scott Momaday and using that […]

Last week, we stretched our poetic imaginations with personification poems about colors and continued to work on writing poems with multiple stanzas. We had fun discussing ways we can imagine colors as people with […]

In week six of poetry class, we had fun reading a poem about a magical library tour. We talked about writing multiple stanzas and using metaphors (comparisons without the use of “like” or “as”) […]

In week 5 of poetry class at Moos, we had fun exploring juxtapositions and playing around with silly language! We discussed the idea that a poet can place two strange things side by side […]

In our fourth week of poetry class at Moos, we had fun reading and writing about dreams! We listened to dream poems with our eyes closed to help us picture the poems in our […]

Last week, we had fun exploring comparison poems and similes! We shared some of our favorite lines from a round of comparison poems that used similes (comparisons using “like” or “as”) and talked about […]

How do you make noise on paper?/ ¿Cómo haces ruido en el papel? In our second week of poetry class, we explored using poetry to make noise on paper. We read a round of […]

In our first week of poetry class, we discussed the Hands on Stanzas poetry class residency (art class with words) and what I and they can expect during our time together – imaginative writing, […]

This week at Moos, we talked about collaboration. We discussed how poets and artists work together to create poems, books, and more. We read a poem that incorporated image and text and then played […]

Today at Moos, we talked about characters. We discussed how poets and writers use character maps in order to create fully formed characters that feel real to us. We diagrammed that every character has […]

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