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Belonging

Today, we readFrancisco X. Alarcón’s Natural Criminal (in English and Spanish) and thought about the ways that he used metaphor to describe the ways he did not feel like he belonged impacted us. We […]

Stories We Need to See

The 8th graders at Haugan read (and watched) Danez Smith’s “Dinosaur in the Hood” and discussed the kinds of movies we want to see in the world. We thought a lot about how he […]

Metaphor, Simile, Metaphor, Simile

We have been loving experimenting with metaphor and simile at Dever Elementary! We looked back through some of our favorite metaphors and similes from the year so far and wrote our own poems bursting […]

Poems as Superheroes–5th grade

In Ms. Robinson-Sanchez’s 5th grade class, we read Blk Girl Art by Jamila Woods and discussed what we want poems to be able to do in the world. We imagined our poems as superheroes, […]

Erasure

Today, we read Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach’s erasure of Putin’s speech declaring war on Ukraine. https://www.rattle.com/mir-in-ukraine-by-julia-kolchinsky-dasbach/ We talked about why she chose that particular text to erase and the power she was able to take […]

Concrete Poems!

Today at Dever, we experimented with concrete poems! We read “Steam” by Sabrina Guo and discussed how she used shape to impact the way the reader read her words and experienced the moment. We […]

Poems as Superheroes–6th grade

In Ms. Mild-Thomas’s 6th grade class, we read Blk Girl Art by Jamila Woods and discussed what we want poems to be able to do in the world. We imagined our poems as superheroes, […]

Poems as Superheroes–8th Grade

In Ms. Budzileni’s 8th grade class, we read Blk Girl Art by Jamila Woods and discussed what we want poems to be able to do in the world. We imagined our poems as superheroes, […]

Our revisions!

In Ms. Budzileni’s 8th grade, we spent some time revising poems that we had already written and were excited about. We had a poetry reading and the student’s did an amazing job! My Name […]

Love poems!

In Ms. Budzileni’s class, we read Matthew Olzmann’s “Mountain Dew Commercial Disguised as a Love Poem” in class and loved the specificity and humor! Many of us said that being so specific about someone […]

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