Darwin Elementary Takes a Cabbage Apart

This week we read an exerpt from “Some Puts a Pineapple Together” by Wallace Stevens. The students discussed how Stevens takes an everyday object and sees many wondrous worlds inside of it. I asked them use their own imaginations, to write many scenes about a new object… a purple cabbage! Enjoy!

3rd Grade

The Purple Cabbage City by Ana E.

There are little people
There are purple cars
There is a white tree
There is a big hotel
That animals live in
There are houses
There is a big city
It has a volcano
It is a city
It is our home

The Purplicious Cabbage by Sofia V.

A never growing tree
A very snowing tree
A purple earth
A big purple ladybug
A big purple house
A big purple leave
The big purple girl
The giant purple school
The big giant classroom
The purple plan
The big sharpener
The big playground
The big bowl
The giant world
The big body
The salad bowl
The giant boy
The big rock

Purple Cabbage by Guadalupe H.

The ball is covered
in grapes and
bright color

2nd & 3rd Grade

Purple Cabbage by Deja M.

I was at the beach and I saw
a dolphin, tied up, and I
called someone to help me.

Purple Cabbage by Nicole E.

The food that I just touched
is bumpy. Its like worms
coming. Like a lettuce
but purple. Like a brain
but purple. Like a volcano.
Like a rocket ball.

Purple Cabbage by Alan T.

Purple & white like
a little purple brain like
a little purple ladybug

2nd Grade

Purple Cabbage by Ashley C.

I see a tree
I see a brain
I see the inside of the rain

Someone Puts a Cabbage Together by Jocelyn D.

Inside, you have in your hands
a person stretching their four arms.
An alien putting its arms into an “O.”
The smell is like a flower garden.
But sadly I must say, all of that
is just its vines

Someone Puts a Cabbage Together by Diego S.

It looks like a tree
It looks like a spiderweb
It looks like a tarantula