A Purple Life: Deconstruction @ Moos Elementary

Poet in Residence
B Sampson

Date
February 24, 2016

This week the 3rd Graders took a look at Someone Puts a Pineapple Together, by Wallace Stevens. We inspected an actual pineapple to try and figure out how Stevens got such wild images out of a fruit. Have you ever looked at cloud and seen something else in it? It’s just like that! And then I asked the students to get ready to write their own images, to tell us what they envisioned within a mystery object. I pulled it out of my bag and it was… a purple cabbage! Cut in half for optimal viewing, of course.

Ms. Freedman 3rd Grade

Purple Cabbage by Abdiel

A purple moon and a boy
in front of it
A purple sky with monsters
that are white
A giant purple eye
A burning tree
A purple light
A tree in October
A tree with leaves falling
Locked in a dark room
A person knocking on a door

All Different Things You Can Call A Purple Cabbage by Nathalie A.

A tree to the night
A purple brain of a zombie
A ghost in the night
A purple bone from the ground
A purple bush in the wind and its
blowing in the night
A purple fire place
A purple leaf all alone in the dark
A bouncy purple ball bouncing in the night

Jackie G.S.

A purple case
A white tree with purple leaves
An eye in the middle
A purple squirt
A blue eye and a purple shirt
A pencil with purple hair
A purple tree fighting with a clock
A pencil clock

Ms. Sweeney 3rd Grade

Untitled by Cabbage Armani

A brain full of worms
A birch tree
A hill of bumps
Roots by the bottom
A pruple night
A purple life

The Mystery by Cabbage Jacob

A brain full of worms
A tree with purple flowers
A brain like a zombie
So ugly and so weird
Patrick’s house
Big purple brain
Like a rib cage

Ms. Brown 3rd Grade

Untitled by Laroyae B.

A ghost
A tree
A pumpkin
A spider

Purple Cabbage by Untitled Josue

The purple cabbage is a brain
A tree in winter time