Art!

My first day of my 20 week residency at Washington really wowed me! The students were eagerly brilliant and so we dug right in to examine William Carlos William’s minimalist Imagist style poem, The Locust Tree in Flower. This poem was brought about (in part) by William’s interest in examining minimal and abstract art of the day. Lesson Note: As students juggled words and grammar line by line to describe an object, their attention is turned ‘inside the box’ of a simple poetic format. How do we describe something using minimal words/language. What words do we use/make up? Here are some of their wonderful examples.