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I Feel Like I Can Fly- Ode Poems

This week we read “Ode to Tomatoes” by Pablo Neruda and discussed how we can celebrate everyday objects that we sometimes take for granted. Students brainstormed about different objects they interact with daily, and […]

Oh My Unique Name!- Name Poems

This week we wrote about the importance of our names and how they can represent us out in the world. We read an excerpt from “The House on Mango Street” where the main character […]

Where I’m From

Welcome back! This week students finished up the pieces they started during our last session about “Where I’m From”. They all did a great job of using imagery and the five senses in their […]

Getting Started

Week 1 Blog  I’m so excited to be back at Perez Elementary again. This year our residency will be with Ms. Murray’s and Ms. Caplan’s 6th graders. We started off our first session by […]

Like you… 7th Grade

What are some things that make you feel connected to the rest of humanity? That’s the question we started with this week, before reading Roque Dalton’s like you. Students worked on pieces, where their […]

Around the Table- 7th Grade

After a bit of a pause in our program, due to the spring break and a schedule conflict, I was back at Perez with Mr. Reinholdt’s 7th graders to finish up poems inspired by […]

Personification Poems- 7th Grade

This week we got started on poems using personification as a device in our poems. We read “A Lament” by Percy Bysshe Shelley and talked about how we could give human qualities to things […]

We Real Cool

I ended our Perez residency with Ms. Murrays 4th graders by bringing in We Real Cool by Gwendolyn Brooks. Students wrote some amazing poems, and we closed out by sharing what we took away […]

Body Stanzas

This week we celebrated our amazing miraculous bodies by celebrating what students thought was the most powerful part of their own. I really loved all of this week’s poems and had such a hard […]

All Good Things… 7th Grade

Well, this is always a bittersweet time of year, as we come to the end of our residency sessions.  For my last session with Mr. Reinholdt’s amazing 7th grade class, we spent the time […]

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