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Get Ready For Poetry Out Loud 2024 Chicagoland Regionals Competition

The Chicago Poetry Center is pleased to serve in its 7th year as the Chicagoland Regional Host Organization for the national Poetry Out Loud Teen Competition. Poetry Out Loud is a collaborative project in […]

4th graders create a community of poets!

This week Twain 4th graders celebrated not only the New Year but also the final day of our poetry residency. Our theme for our last week was about community. I asked students, “What is […]

4th graders Explore Art in Chicago

As we get closer to the end of our residency, I wanted to have a fun lesson for 4th graders. Since, they love to draw, for their 9th week, we learned about Ekphrastic poetry. […]

6th graders do a Mic Check

For our 5th and final week of our mini residency, 6th graders read and discussed ideas about Open Mics. Open mics are events open to the public, safe, welcoming places to share your creativity, […]

6th graders Travel to Real & Imaginary Places

For our 4th week of poetry, 6th grades explored places in reality and those hidden in our imaginations. On Tuesday we read “candy store,” by Nate Marshall, a poet who grew up in Chicago. […]

4th grade Weather Report

For their 8th week Twain 4th graders experienced the changing weather through poetry. Students were asked what their favorite and least favorite seasons are. The majority of students loved Fall because of Halloween, the […]

Outstanding Odes from 6th graders

For the third week in our mini-residency Dulles 6th graders explored odes. Odes are poems that praise and celebrate people, places, and things. On Tuesday we read “Ode to Kool-Aid” by Marcus Jackson. In […]

4th graders get musical with haikus!

For their 7th poetry lesson, Twain 4th graders discovered haiku poems. Haiku is a short Japanese poem that only has three lines. The first line has 5 syllables, 7 in the second, and 5 […]

6th graders Thoughts & Emotions

For the second week of our mini-residency 6th graders explored their thoughts and emotions. On Tuesday students read and discussed the poem “Thought Machine,” by Laura Mucha. In her poem Mucha compares her mind […]

4th grader’s powerful personas

For their sixth poetry lesson, Twain 4th graders explored personas. The word persona comes from the Greek word for mask. Actors in ancient Greece wore masks on stage to represent different characters. Poets use […]

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