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If I were an animal…

In Ms. Mild-Thomas’s 6th grade class, we read Ada Limon’s “How to Triumph like a Girl” and discussed how through using the metaphor of a horse, the poem told us something new about the […]

Around this table

In Ms. Budzileni’s 8th grade class, we read Joy Harjo’s poem “Perhaps the World Ends Here” about all the things, literal and figurative that can happen around a kitchen table or in the center […]

Metaphor and Our Neighborhoods!

In Ms. Carteno’s 6th grade classes at Dever Elementary, we read Valerie Bloom’s “Frost” and thought about how she stretched an extended metaphor for the snow all through her poem. We thought about how […]

Metaphor and Our Neighborhoods

In Ms. Mild-Thomas’s class, we read Valerie Bloom’s “Frost” and thought about how she stretched an extended metaphor for the snow all through her poem. We thought about how her metaphors showed us how […]

Poetry as Play!

In Ms Carteno’s 6th grade classes, we read a short poem by Valerie Worth called “Safety Pin” that imagined a safety pin as some very different things (a shrimp! a fish!). We talked about […]

Poetry as Play!

In Ms Sanchez’s 5th grade classes, we read a short poem by Valerie Worth called “Safety Pin” that imagined a safety pin as some very different things (a shrimp! a fish!). We talked about […]

Description All Around Us

In Ms Budzileni’s 8th grade classes, we read Ariel Francisco’s “Along the East River and in the Bronx Young Men were Singing” and wrote poems using sensory details to describe places that we love […]

Poetry as Play!

In Ms Thomas’s 6th grade classes, we read a short poem by Valerie Worth called “Safety Pin” that imagined a safety pin as some very different things (a shrimp! a fish!). We talked about […]

Description all around us

In Ms Carteno’s 6th grade classes, we read Ariel Francisco’s “Along the East River and in the Bronx Young Men were Singing” and wrote poems using sensory details to describe places that we love […]

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