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Darwin Elementary Takes a Cabbage Apart

This week we read an exerpt from “Some Puts a Pineapple Together” by Wallace Stevens. The students discussed how Stevens takes an everyday object and sees many wondrous worlds inside of it. I asked […]

I Love Spring For Itself: A Haiku For Every Season at Moos Elementary

The students and I had an extra long break due to the first vortex of 2015! In honor of how frozen we were that week, when we finally got back together we read a […]

Cold Ponds See No Ducks: A Haiku For Every Season at Darwin Elementary

The students and I had an extra long break due to the first vortex of 2015! In honor of how frozen we were that week, when we finally got back together we read a […]

The Birds Fly Cool: A Haiku For Each Season

The students and I had an extra long break due to the first vortex of 2015! In honor of how frozen we were that week, when we finally got back together we read a […]

Sorry Not Sorry! Moos Edition!

This week we read the delectable “This Is Just To Say” by William Carlos Williams, in which he expertly maneuvers the “sorry, not sorry” faux-apology. As enjoyable as Williams’ poem is, it is even […]

Sorry Not Sorry! Darwin Edition!

This week we read the delectable “This Is Just To Say” by William Carlos Williams, in which he expertly maneuvers the “sorry, not sorry” faux-apology. As enjoyable as Williams’ poem is, it is even […]

Sorry Not Sorry!

This week we read the delectable “This Is Just To Say” by William Carlos Williams, in which he expertly maneuvers the “sorry, not sorry” faux-apology. As enjoyable as Williams’ poem is, it is even […]

He is tiptoeing, he is sneaking… Carnival of the Animals!

This week I had to distinct pleasure of writing poems to music with the Darwin Elementary 2nd and 3rd Graders. As part of the Poetry Center’s Collaboration with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, our students […]

Where We’re From: Moos Edition

This week we read George Ella Lyon’s “Where I’m From.” Normally, we find ourselves saying things like “I’m from Chicago,” but this poems shows that if you describe all the little things your from–the […]

Where We’re From: Avondale Logandale Edition

This week we read George Ella Lyon’s “Where I’m From.” Normally, we find ourselves saying things like “I’m from Chicago,” but this poems shows that if you describe all the little things your from–the […]

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