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Letter Poems- 7th Grade

This week we explored the epistolary poem, or a poem in the form of a letter. We watched the video for Kobe Bryant’s Dear Basketball piece, that he wrote to commemorate his retirement from […]

Ode Poems

This week we wrote Ode poems! We started off by talking about all of the everyday things we take for granted in our lives, and having those moments of realization about how essential and […]

What We Love

This week in Ms. Murray’s 4th grade class, we read “Honey, I Love” by Eloise Greenfield and talked about all the things we love and don’t love. Some students noticed that the poem was […]

We Imagine Our World…

If you had the power to change the world, what would you change? That’s the question we started off with this week with our Perez 4th graders, before reading Leslie Reese’s poem “Life Is […]

Things That Go Bump In The Night

This week our 4th graders at Perez explored all things Monsters. We started off our session by doing exquisite corpse drawings of monsters. Each table passed around their sheet of paper to everyone in […]

My People- 7th Grade

This week we read and discussed Langston Hughes piece My People. We talked about the communities and identities we belong to, and how we can celebrate them. We also explored the list poem form […]

I Am Poems

This week we got started with a second session of afterschool workshops at Clissold and our group has grown to include a few kindergarteners and 1st graders. I was really excited to introduce our […]

Persona Poems- 7th Grade

This week we explored persona poems, and used the opportunity to think about what it might be like to walk in someone else’s shoes. Students took their pieces a bit further past personification and […]

Questions

What’s more important, the answer or the question? This week we read excerpts from Pablo Neruda’s “The Book of Questions” and talked about all the questions we’ve always or never knew we wanted to […]

Ode Poems

This week Ms. Murray’s 4th graders explored the ode, a popular poetic form used to celebrate a person, place, thing, or even an idea. We started off by talking a bit about Pablo Neruda, […]

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