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My People Poems

Greetings West Park poetry friends and followers! During week 2, we read and discussed the poem “My People,” by Langston Hughes. We identified this poem as a list poem (a poem in the form […]

Self-Portrait Poems

Greetings West Park poetry friends and followers! We are embarking on an eight-week poetry journey and it’s off to an incredible start! We began by reading two short poems by Francisco Alarcón, “A Blank […]

Rhythm Poems

Greetings Galileo poetry friends and followers! This past week, we focused on the topic of rhythm. We listened and danced to rhythms in Charles Mingus’s “Better Git It In Your Soul.” We clapped and […]

“Revisioning” and Revising

Greetings Galileo poetry friends and followers! After reading “Hairs”—a section from Sandra Cisneros’s book, The House on Mango Street—we discussed, is this a poem? Some students said no, because the text is written in […]

Family Celebrity Poems

Greetings Galileo poetry friends and followers! This week’s poems are full of deeply felt feelings, because they are about people we know a lot about and care a lot about. Our poems from week […]

Body Stanzas

Greetings Galileo poetry friends and followers! During week 3, we discussed stanzas in poetry and examined examples from amazing poets Maya Angelou and Nikki Giovanni. We reviewed last week’s lesson about metaphors, and students […]

Body Metaphors

Greetings Galileo poetry friends and followers! We began our week 2 lesson by exploring The Best Part of Me, a book of poems written by elementary school students about their favorite body parts, with […]

Self-Portrait Poems

Greetings Galileo poetry friends and followers! We are embarking on a ten-week poetry journey and it’s off to an incredible start! We began by reading two short poems by Francisco Alarcón, “A Blank White […]

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