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What We’re Thankful For (8th Grade)

Sometimes it is hard to choose just one thing we are thankful for. This week the 8th graders of Clinton celebrated gratitude by writing odes for what makes them most thankful. After reading “Ode […]

Welcome to the neighborhood!

For our second session of poetry this week, Twain 6th grades traveled to other places, through vivid imagery. Imagery is when a poet paints a picture inside their readers minds. What make a place […]

As Far As I Know

Last week, we read and discussed Philip Larkin’s “Far Out.” Unlike the previous selection, this has a regular rhyme scheme, along with four-line stanzas (called quatrains), and (mostly) unambiguous language. However, there are a […]

“Pero no se alarmen / que ese polvo de estrellas / cáe en las personas / buenas de este / Tierra” (“Don’t be alarmed / that star dust / falls on the good people / of this Earth”)

How do you fix things? How do you know what needs fixing? This week Waters 6th and 7th graders discussed the poem “What is handed down” by Ada Límon and what it means to […]

Unique and underrated names

O’ School students had their 13th session of poetry on Monday. This week’s theme was about names. I asked students: Why are names important? If you could choose another name for yourself, what would […]

See yourself all over again: Concrete poems

Greetings! Waters 7th graders have already had plenty of experience connecting the dots between poetry and visual art. continue that trend with concrete poems, which are poems that are shaped like a object or […]

2nd Grade Wishing-Well

I met Brennemann 2nd graders for the first time this week. They were curious about everything from what I was wearing, to what is a poem? and what do I think about animals? and […]

Without this I look like a new kid: concrete poems

Greetings! Waters 6th graders have already had plenty of experience connecting the dots between poetry and visual art. continue that trend with concrete poems, which are poems that are shaped like a object or […]

What a monster looks like!

For our first session upon returning from spring break, I thought we could spend time reviewing, as well as looking at some illustrated poetry books and reading poems aloud. This is what we did […]

The name that’s true to me

Last Friday was my first poetry session with Twain 6th gradera. Since it was our first time meeting each other, we discussed the importance of names. Names are part of our identities; names are […]

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