‘Attitude knows her worth and/ she don’t play’: Emotion Poems

Students talked about and then wrote poems about emotions using personification.

Lesson Note: “Developing creativity in students is not a luxury.” How Social-Emotional Imagination Facilitates Deep Learning and Creativity in the Classroom Gotlieb, Jahner, Immordino-Yang Scott, Kaufman

Romano 7th Grade

Brave Knight Eddie D.

Brave is a serious person
Brave wearing armor
Brave with fangs
Brave with ginger hair
Brave with a deep voice
Brave with long feet

Happiness Danniya E.

Happy is a bright person
She wears light pastel
and she always puts a smile on other’s faces
Happy is a bright and cheery person who everyone
loves.

Mrs. Turner 6th Grade

Me or You Dinae S.

Pink dress
Pink nails

Attitude Jia

Attitude walks in, looking
fierce, not caring what anyone
says.
Attitude knows her worth And
she don’t play.
She got her red bottoms on with a tight dress.
Silk dress looking cute
head to toe. She cut, and
she know.
She got a smug expression on her face once again she
don’t play.

Ms. Romano 7th Grade

Angry J.R.

He wears dark red clothing
He wears his hair long and reddish
He wears red socks with Angry Birds
He wears red contacts

Mad Max Antonio

Mad Max wears red
every day. Mad Max likes to
fight every day. Mad Max
walks out of class all
day.

Mrs. Turner 6th Grade

Sadness Connell

wears a black hoodie and never wants to take
pictures
Sadness never has her hair done and never has her nails done
Sadness has no new clothes, no new shoes, no new anything
Sadness does not go to school
Sadness doesn’t know anything

Heager Amaud

Heager is so happy and eager
Heager hates
to wake
up on
Mondays but
happy to wake
up on
Fridays
That’s when
Heager is
so eager.

Happy Penelope

Happy is rich, rich
that why she got that
drip drip

With that big bright
smile and never a frown

tip tip that her heels

tap tap that’s her nails
going clickity clack

that why happy is
Happy

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