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Mapping Our Way Home

Happy 2022, dear reader! It felt familiar joining Ms. Marasovich’s 6-8th grade poetry club and I was met with excited students ready to craft some new masterpieces. Our Tuesday session was focused on the […]

Wishing With Stars

Ms. Manning’s 4th and 5th graders welcomed me into the school with warm, open arms. Since it was our first time meeting, we started our session with a warm-up name game. Students each shared […]

‘Tis The Season…

Winter is here and what better way to celebrate than with a fresh batch of poems? This week, Hale’s 6-8th grade poets donned some holiday spirit and crafted seasonal poems. Despite Chicago’s winter cold, […]

Poems For The Eyes

After a long holiday break, Hale’s middle school poetry crew is back at it this week with some boundary-pushing poems. This week’s theme was “poems you can see,” and we tested the waters by […]

Memories That Make Us

By now, Hale’s 6-8th poetry club students have read a breadth of poets spanning a range of identities. Each queer, Black, Latinx, and Asian American poet has offered wisdom and taught us a new […]

Spaces and Places

The places we blossom from tell great stories of our journeys. This week, Hale 6-8th grade poetry club explored this theme and relied on their five senses to paint a more vivid picture of […]

Build Yourself A Metaphor

Happy Friday, dear readers! Hale’s 6-8th grade poetry club had a blast this week diving deeper into figurative language. We spent our time together focused on metaphors and what makes them so important in […]

O, Odes

Hale 6-8th grade poetry club students joined me in my birthday celebration this week, and it was filled with daring poetic language and joyous performances from our students. On Tuesday, we learned about odes, […]

The Rhythm of the Beat

The Hale 6-8th grade poetry club is a musical bunch. For the last few weeks, we’ve been compiling some of our favorite tunes onto a playlist that’s often the soundtrack to our writing sessions. […]

Personifyin’

This week, our Hale 6-8th grade poetry club deep dove into the world of figurative language. On Tuesday, we practiced simile writing and left some words of encouragement to our future selves. Students were […]

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