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6th Grade- The Place We Gather Pt. 1

This week our 6th graders read Perhaps This is Where the World Ends by Joy Harjo and talked about the million and one things that can happen at a table. The living room table, […]

6th Grade- Personification Pt. 2

I was so excited to see how Foster Park’s 6th graders finished up their pieces using personification. This week we had poems addressed to the feeling of being mad, to stars, the earth and […]

6th Grade- Personification Pt. 1

How can we talk about larger than life things and not get overwhelmed by the idea of it? This week we read The Lament by Percy Bysse Shelley and a piece by a former […]

6th Grade- Food Poems Pt. 2

Mouths were watering again this week as our 6th graders continued working on their poems about food. From steak, to meatballs, chicken alfredo and noodles this week’s menu of poems will leave you ravenous! […]

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.   […]

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