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‘Endless mirror’: Star Poems

Students read a student poem that used personification to talk to a star before trying their hands at their own poems addressing something… bigger than themselves, while using words from legendary poet/teacher Kim Addonizio’s […]

Sounds We Hate, Sounds We Love

We all have sounds we adore and sounds that make us cringe. The students of MLA asked themselves what these sounds were for them before we read “Sweet Like a Crow” by Michael Ondaatje. […]

“Believe it!” Power of Repetition

This past week at Smyser Elementary, we learned about the power of repetition with the poem “When to Write” by Sophia Thakur. Students were challenged to write their own poem about a favorite activity […]

Dear Chicago

This last week at Henry, we watched and read Ariana Brown’s poem “Ode to the City Bus.” Poets spent the day learning about extended metaphors and reviewed what an ode is. Each student was […]

Editing our Favorites!

There was a school wide celebration last weekend at Social Justice High School with an hour dedicated to the students reading their work from the Poetry Society! To help the poets prepare, we talked […]

2nd graders invite you to see…

After questioning in our first sessions and comparing in our second sessions, it was time for Nettelhorst 2nd graders to get down to the business of seeing for our third sessions. We talked about […]

Table Songs

Poet in Residence Timothy David Rey’s “Around the Table” poetry lesson got Brennemann 5th graders talking about the things that happen at kitchen/dining tables. Things such as preparing food, eating, drinking, playing games, doing […]

Poems and Paintbrushes

As we get closer to the end of our residency, I wanted to have have a colorful theme. For their 17th week, O-School students learned about Ekphrastic poetry. Ekphrastic poetry is poetry that is […]

“This is class is not demure”

This past Monday and Tuesday marked the beginning of a new partnership with Howe School of Excellence’s after-school program. The group is made up of boys ranging in age from 2nd – 7th grade, […]

‘I can’t. Take it. ANYMORE!!!’: Repetition Poems

We explored the powerful device of Repetition in Phil Kaye’s poem of the same name. Some poems in our workshop are ‘after’ Kaye’s work. Lesson Note: “Repetition can make magic happen- repeat a word or […]

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