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Poetry is… | Sabin 4th Grade

This week we built upon our introductory foundation of last week’s work with simile, with our this week’s work with metaphor. We read Nikki Giovani’s poem, “Poetry”. Students thought about what poetry is to […]

Poetry is… | Sabin 5th Grade

This week we built upon our introductory foundation of last week’s work with simile, with our this week’s work with metaphor. We read Nikki Giovani’s poem, “Poetry”. Students thought about what poetry is to […]

What are you?

Today we read “Woman” by Nikki Giovanni and “Litany” by Billy Collins, two very different poems that employ a similar device: comparing people to seemingly unrelated things, like places, inanimate objects and elements of […]

The Many Layers of a Vegetable (or Fruit)

Reading “Yam” by Bruce Guernsey, we examined a small pile of interesting vegetables and fruits that I brought in for us to look at, and described them in poems. We tried out some ways […]

Biblioteca (parte 1)

We read a few excerpts from Albert Goldbarth’s otherwise EXTREMELY long poem, “Library.” Other poets have traditionally added their own books to the list that Goldbarth describes (here are a few examples), and so […]

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