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Emotion Machines- 7th Grade

This week our 7th graders read Ada Limon’s The Quiet Machine. This prose poem by the 2022 US Poet Laureate, describes all of the different kinds of quiet she experiences, based on her state […]

I dream about …

Have you ever woken up from a dream and scratched your head in complete confusion? This week we talked about all the strange and whimsical things that happen behind our eyes when we drift […]

Personification Poems- 7th grade

After some schedule changes and a week off, we were back at Perez to finish off our personification poems. There were so many great pieces written this week, some to the universe, the ocean, […]

A recipe for me…

What are the ingredients that makeup who you are? A gallon of sassyness, infinite bowls of Kung-fu kicks, 10 cups of fortnite and snacks. This week in Ms. Murray’s 4th grade class we talked […]

Do you hear what I hear?

What is a favorite sound you have? Is there a sound you would rather not have to listen to? This week, our after-school poetry club talked about the symphony of sounds we hear every […]

Wish Poems: Deseo ir al espacio y descubrir secretos no descubiertos…

What is something you wish could be true even though you know it’s not really possible? Walking on clouds, pizza everyday, 900,000 stuffed animals, and infinite wishes from a genie were just a few […]

Personification Poems Pt. 2- 7th Grade

After some schedule changes and a week off, we were back at Perez to finish off our personification poems. There were so many great pieces written this week, some to the universe, the ocean, […]

Reality is like a game with big choices…

What do an elephant and a mouse have in common? What dessert do your eyes look like? For this week’s session we talked about comparisons and how contrasting different things can help our writing […]

I hear my voice ringing out loud…

This week for poetry club at Clissold we focused on writing poems about ourselves. We read Leslie Reese’s poem I Am and talked about stanzas and lines and how to use them in our […]

O world! O life! O time!

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 […]

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