Taking Flight: An Addendum

For our closing 7th Grade activity, students fashioned paper airplanes that took to the wind as a symbolic act in honor of poet, Ruth Stone’s quote about how a poem ‘thundered through her,’ from across the plains of Virginia. Ruth’s explanation and various flying machines follow.

Ms. Munoz, 7th Grade

Periods 1, 3, 6, 7, 8

 

Ruth Stone explains being ‘chased’ by a poem.


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