The Spider Is A Guide: Deconstruction At Darwin

This week the 2nd Graders took a look at Someone Puts a Pineapple Together, by Wallace Stevens. We inspected an actual pineapple to try and figure out how Stevens got such wild images out of a fruit. Have you ever looked at cloud and seen something else in it? It’s just like that! And then I asked the students to get ready to write their own images, to tell us what they envisioned within a mystery object. I pulled it out of my bag and it was… a purple cabbage! Cut in half for optimal viewing, of course.

Mr. Postlethwait 2nd Grade

Untitled by Untitled Ariana

El sol es dedajo del
árbol
The fire is under the
moon
The octopus is purple

Untitled by Valeria C.

El cangrejo es muy blanco
Se ve como un árbol
The purple snakes
the fire burns under the moon
La luna es un color muy bonito

Untitled by Alexander B.

A spider es una guía
with tu

Mr. Rence 2nd Grade

Brain of Evil! by Max G.

It looks like a brain
It looks like a zombie’s
brain
It looks like a
hand

Purple Brain by Olivia Z.

A taco with white
fingers. A purple brain.
A growing purple brain with
a hand inside. A purple ball.
A hand inside a brain.
A bottle with sticking out fingers.
A brain tree.

Untitled by Xavier H.

A
purple
brain