50% Terrible, 50% Amazing

I was back for another week with Waters 7th graders, this time talking about the stanza. Maggie Smith’s “Good Bones” was our poem for the day, a poem particularly prominent around the time that Trump was first elected. We talked about what it means for the world to be 50% terrible, and what it means to “shorten” one’s life life in a thousand delicious, ill-advised ways.

Then, students were left to write their poems about the 50% good and 50% terrible. We didn’t have the time to finish last week, but I look forward to hearing students poems after Thanksgiving.

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