Odes and More!

Day 4 of camp at Twain! I can’t believe week 1 of camp has flown by! Today, we played a fast-paced writing game involving dice and a scavenger hunt of words around the classroom. Following our morning game, we read and listened to “Rat Ode” by Elizabeth Acevedo.  Students were then tasked to write their own odes using a word map to help them create imagery! We rounded out poetry camp week 1 with a sound map exercise outside exploring sounds from various perspectives that we will use for another writing exercise next week thinking about onomatopoeias.

Check out day 4 poems below + some of our sound maps!

Mr. Barr's 6th-8th Grade CPC Poetry Camp!

Sound Maps From Camp

"fish" Leo P.

swim swim as fast as you can
I can get you one way or another
The bigger you are the more proud I will be
you might be as big as me, but I will always
find a way
you jump and jump in the shiny, clear pond
you will make me full right after a catch and eat you
your beautiful scales shining under the water like stars
And the eye, the size of a grain of rice
your fins slithering like a snake under the water
SPLASH!!!
I finally got you
now I will eat you like a hungry lion

"Ode to Yuri on Ice" Georgie J.

The clink of the skates hitting the ice
characters with great depth
many of them dancing for love and heartbreak
The clash of colors everywhere
Bright and pastel mixing
Everyone has their own unique song
To better tell their fairy like stories
Even though everything is animated, there’s so much emotion
Enough to show two characters falling in love
“You have to do the opposite of what people expect,
How else will you surprise them?”
Showing how to break people’s expectations
To go above and beyond

"Ode to Rain" Jaylah F.

Rain is calming,
Cozy, and makes
me sleepy. I go
outside after it
rains because it
smells good. The
clouds look like
night. It’s very
peaceful. I sit
on my bed with
the window open
looking at the rain.