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West Park Hauntings part 1

The Poets from Miss Chambers seventh grade class at Westpark Fine Arts Academy took a lesson in horror. No, they were not horrified by the lesson, the lesson was about poems that are scary. […]

Cento Poems

Our time together at Avondale/Logandale School with both of Ms. Pannell’s 5th grade classes has come to end. For our final lesson we did Cento Poems which are poems made from other poems. The […]

Creating Couplets

The poets from West Park Academy became rappers! Today we studied rhyming. After studying lyrics by Tupac Shakur and Bad Bunny we discussed how couplets are on one of the used forms of rhyming […]

Lyrical Shapes

The poets from Waters Elementary learned how poems not just meant to be read, and heard, but also to be viewed as visual art. The poets read poems that written in the shape of […]

One Lawndale Voices

The poets from Latino Youth High School finished writing their poems for the One Lawndale Project. Each poet recorded their poems. Their voices and text will be displayed with other forms of visual art […]

Visual Poetry

The poets from Avondale/Logandale learned how poems not just meant to be read, and heard, but also to be viewed as visual art. The poets read poems that written in the shape of their […]

Cutlets of Couplets

Today at Avondale/ Logandale the 5th grade poets learn about rapping. After listening to Will Smith’s and DJ Jazzy Jeff’s song “Summertime” they were challenged to write their own rhymes. Each poet wrote a […]

The Shape of a Poem

The 7th grade poets from West Park Academy “designed” their own shape poems. Shape poems are poems written in the shape of their subject or inspiration. This is one of the many ways poetry […]

7th Grade Blues

The 7th grade poets from West Park Academy were introduced to one of the oldest genres of American music, the Blues. After listening to several blues songs we discussed the content and the purpose […]

One Lawndale Part 3

Here are some of the poems from the final stage of the One Lawndale project. Enjoy!   Mayra M.   In the summer When I was waiting for Mom to get back home from […]

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