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Golden Shovels @ Shoesmith 5th & 6th Grade

For their seventeenth virtual lesson, Shoesmith 5th and 6th grade students dug up new poetry using golden shovels. A Golden Shovel is a poetic form that takes a word from each line of an […]

Last Day Poetry Slam!

For the last day of their poetry residency, Haugan 8th graders celebrated with a poetry slam! Students chose one of their best lines and stanzas from the virtual residency and collaborated on a class […]

A Ticket To Another Planet

For their eighth virtual poetry lesson Dubois students explored other planets. A planet is a sphere, an object in space that orbits around the sun. Students mentioned all the planets in order Earth, Saturn, […]

Defeating Writer’s Block @ Shoesmith 5th & 6th Grade

For their sixteenth virtual lesson Shoesmith 5th and 6th graders explored the meaning of writer’s block. Writer’s block occurs when a writer feels stuck, overwhelmed, and has trouble writing anything new. Students were asked […]

A poem should not mean, but be

For our nineteenth virtual lesson, Haugan 8th graders experimented with Ars Poetica, a poem that explains the art of poetry. This lesson is appropriate considering how we are close to the end of our […]

My First Memory

For their seventh virtual poetry lesson Dubois students explored their earliest memories. They were asked, “Why are memories so important?” Students came up with interesting responses: negative memories help us not make the same […]

Origin Myths @ Shoesmith 5th & 6th Grade

For their fifteenth virtual lesson Shoesmith 5th and 6th graders explored myths. A myth is an ancient story or legend explaining the early history of a group of people or about a natural phenomenon. […]

2 Morrow

For their eighteenth virtual lesson Haugan 8th graders explored poetry about the future. First students discussed issues in our world today such as the COVID 19 virus, Global Warming, pollution, hate crimes, and gun […]

Taking on a new Identity

For their sixth virtual poetry lesson, Dubois students explored personas. The word “persona” comes from the Greek word for mask. Actors in ancient Greece wore masks on stage to represent different characters. Some students […]

Laments of Loss @ Shoesmith 5th & 6th Grade

For their fourteenth virtual lesson Shoesmith 5th and 6th graders explored ideas about loss through laments. A Lament is a poem that expresses strong feelings of sorrow, grief, and regret usual about someone who […]

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