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6th Grade- Food Poems Pt. 1

Get ready, because this week’s poems are sure to make you hungry! We talked about food we love, food we cook, and food that makes out mouth water and bellies rumble. Some students are […]

6th Grade- I am Poems

I mean I can fly like a bird in the sky… This week students had a chance to listen to and read Nikki Giovanni’s Ego Trippin’ a a poem that celebrates her identity by […]

6th Grade- Name Poems

A rose is a rose is a rose… This week our 6th graders got to writing about names. We talked about how our names fit or don’t fit our personalities, how they’re often mispronounced […]

7th Grade- New Words Pt. 1

This week we read Jose Olivarez’s piece Hecky Naw and talked about words we love to use that are part of our identities. Students had a great time discussing slang, and local Chicago words […]

7th Grade- Perhaps we write ode poems

After reading Perhaps the World Ends Here by Joy Harjo, some students were having a hard time tapping into their creativity and coming up with ideas. So I gave them a second option. Write […]

7th Grade- Personification Pt. 2

I waited all week to read some more personification poems by Foster Parks 7th grade class! Here are a few more that students had continued working on and finished in this week’s session.   […]

7th Grade- Personification Poems Pt.1

This week we got started on writing poems using personification as a tool to explore big ideas and emotions. After reading The Lament by Percy Bysse Shelley I asked students if they could ask […]

7th Grade- New Words Pt. 2

Were you as excited as I was to read this week’s New Word poems by our Foster Park Elementary students? Here is Part 2 of of poems inspired by Jose Olivarez’s poem Hecky Naw. […]

7th Grade- New Word Poems Part 1

This week we read “Hecky Naw” by Jose Olivarez and talked about words we love to use that are part of our identity and day to day lives. We also looked at some recent […]

Food Poems: “It makes me feel like I’m in heaven…”

Food! Glorious food! This week we talked about all of the delicious foods we love to eat, and used our five senses to describe what it is about them that makes our mouths water […]

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