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Lines, Lyrics, and Stanzas

For our first day together at Hamline Elementary 6th grade poets from Mr. Marroquin’s class, we read a poem about a city everyone is familiar with, “Chicago” by Carl Sandburg. Though the poem was […]

Awesome Alliteration in Action

The 5th grade poets from Ms. Murray’s class learned about a widely used literary device, alliteration. Like rhyming, alliteration is best appreciated when hearing the poem versus reading it. It is evidence that poetry […]

My City, My City!

The young poets from Ms. Zepeda’s class wrote about their towards out great City of Chicago. After reading “City City” by Marci Ridlon we discussed the good and the bad of the city. Check […]

Chicago, Good and Bad

The young poets from Ms. Murray’s 5th and 6th grade classes read and discussed the poem “Chicago” by Carl Sandburg. In the poem, Carl Sandburg describes the city of Chicago in both a positive […]

For the Love of Lyrics, Lines and Stanzas!

Today was the first day I worked with the young poets from Ms. Zepeda’s 3rd grade class at Perez Elementary School. After playing some games to get to know each other, we read the […]

Listen to the Line, Lyric, and Stanza

Today was the first day I worked with the young poets from Ms. Murray’s 5th and 6th grade classes at Perez Elementary School. After playing some games to get to know each other, we […]

Happy Haikus

The happy 4th grade poets from Howe School studied an ancient form of poetry from Japan called Haikus. The poem follows a specific structure of 3 lines; the first line must contain 5 syllables, […]

My Wishes

The 4th grade poets from the after school program at Howe School of Excellence wrote about their wishes. After studying several poems by elementary school students from other school about their wishes, the students […]

Say What!?

Today the poets from Howe School of Execellence learned about an important literary device called alliteration. We studied some classic tongue twisters like “Peter Piper…” and “How much wood could a woodchuck chuck…” We […]

Don’t go into the Waters part 2

As promised here are the scary poems/stories from the 7th and 8th grade poets from Waters Elementary!   James R. And Zoe R. It was a cold and stormy night as the high school […]

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