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Magic Words

What could happen if your words were magic? This week our 2nd and 3rd graders wrote about just that after reading Magic Words, and Inuit Poem by Nalungiaq.   Magic Words Eva W. 3rd […]

What Poems Can Do

I was so excited to get started with students at Perez Elementary in Pilsen today! I’ll be working with three classes of 7th and 8th graders and they are ready to go. I introduced […]

Ode Poems

Ode Poems are written to celebrate people, places, things or ideas. We discussed, how Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, wrote ode poems about objects that are often overlooked, or taken for granted, like a lemon, […]

Freewrite

This week, after our check-in, the Clissold poets dove into a conversation about the past, present, future, what we’ve learned and what we hope for. So we decided to write straight from the heart […]

Days of the Week

Why do Mondays feel like “Ugh!” and Fridays feel like “Yea!” This week we talked about how different days and times can conjure different kinds of feelings. Here’s a piece by Neia who let […]

What’s In A Name Part 2: “ I bring peace…”

This week we spent some more time working on poems that weren’t quite finished yet. Here’s a few more pieces about the importance of names. Enjoy this week’s poets!   Aniya Aniya Moore Aniya […]

New Word Poems

What is a word you love to say or that you identify with? If you could make up a word to describe a feeling you have what it be? This week our rockstar Clissold […]

Winter Poems

As Spring fast approaches here in Chicago it was nice to take a moment to think about winter. Our 2nd and 3rd graders wrote a few sentences about the arctic season and then exchanged […]

Winter Poems

This week we had a snowball fight! Well, it was more of metaphorical, poetic one. After answering a few writing prompts inspired by winter, the poets crumpled up their pieces of paper into snowballs […]

What’s In a Name?

What is the story of your name? If you could change it to something else would you? This week we had an opportunity to think about another aspect of our identities by sharing poems […]

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