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Love poems!

In Mrs. Robinson-Sanchez’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 […]

Love Poems

In Ms. Mild-Thomas’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 […]

Love Poems!

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 you love was a […]

Can Poetry Take Care of Us?

In Ms. Carteno’s class, we read “Red Brocade” by Naomi Shihab-Nye and discussed whether or not we thought a poem could take care of a person. We wrote our own poems of welcome and […]

Can Poetry Take Care of Us?

In Ms. Robinson-Sanchez’s class, we read “Red Brocade” by Naomi Shihab-Nye and discussed whether or not we thought a poem could take care of a person. Most of us thought it could! We wrote […]

Can Poetry Change an Event

In Ms. Budzelin’s 8th grade class, we read Eve Ewing’s “Four Boys on Ellis [a re-telling],” in which Ewing creates a new, magical, and freeing ending for an instance of racism. We had a […]

Can Poetry Change an Event?

In Ms. Mild-Thomas’s 6th grade class, we read Eve Ewing’s “Four Boys on Ellis [a re-telling],” in which Ewing creates a new, magical, and freeing ending for an instance of racism. We had a […]

Revisions

Today, we spent some time revising poems that we had already written and were excited about. We had a poetry reading and the students did an amazing job! Animals Sherlyn Cats are so cute […]

Running into a new year

In Ms. Budzileni’s 8th grade class, we read Lucille Clifton’s “[running into a new year]” and thought about how we’re moving into this new year through these complicated times. We talked a lot about […]

I want a poem that can…

In Ms. Carteno’s 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, able to […]

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