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Techno? Yes!

Halloween was this past weekend, so last week I brought in Kyle Dargan‘s “The Robots Are Coming.” This sci-fi-ish poem describes some giant robots from outer space who come to Earth with intentions of […]

Re: Place

This week, I introduced to concept of simile to the students, who had the option of using it (or not) in their poems. Then we read and discussed “One Home” by William Stafford. We […]

Inside Out

This week, we started by referring back to the vocabulary list and adding two new words for talking about poetry: imagery and personification. Then we read and discussed Charles Simic‘s poem, “Stone.” I asked […]

The Title of This Poem Is…

This week was the first Skinner West residency of the year! It was terrific to see both familiar and new faces, and the students were energized and ready to tackle our first day of […]

Farewell, 4th Grade!

Our 10 weeks of poetry flew by far too quickly, and yesterday marked our final 4th grade classes. It’s never easy ending a residency, but we did so the best we could. I brought […]

Tinted Winter

For our penultimate 4th grade class, we traveled back a few months in time for “Very Strong February” by Bernadette Mayer. Now that spring has finally (?) sprung, this quite snowy poem was a […]

Sayonara, 2nd Grade!

After twenty inspirational, insightful, incredible, incisive, illuminating, impassioned, and often improvisational weeks of poetry, we had our final 2nd grade classes this week. It’s never easy ending a residency, but we did so the […]

Always Be Composing, Dude

“A Poem for S.” by Jessica Greenbaum was this week’s selection. After hearing it read aloud by two student volunteers, there were many opening comments regarding the fact that almost every line in the […]

No Pane, No Gain

Last week at Skinner West, we read James Dickey‘s lengthy poem, “The Hospital Window.” I began our conversation by noting that there are multiple ways of interpreting this work, and that my own views […]

Stop, Look, Listen…

Daylight saving time began this past weekend, so to commemorate the occasion we read William Stafford‘s “Next Time.” Though the poem’s language is relatively straightforward, I asked the 2nd and 4th graders about a […]

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