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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 […]

Running into a new year

In Ms. Mild-Thomas’s 6th 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 […]

Running into a New Year

In Ms. Carteno’s 6th grade classes, 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 […]

On Hearing Our Names

In Ms. Mild-Thomas’s class, we read Aimee Nezhukumatathil’s “On Listening to Your Teacher Take Attendance” and discussed how powerful her imagery, particularly of the pencil sharpener blade at the end, made us feel her […]

Poems of direct address

This week, we read and talked about poems that talk to a specific audience. We talked about the ways that our poems could care for someone we love and wrote poems that talked right […]

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