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“I am as creative as an artist” Figurative Language at Dulles

In Mr. Bridges’ Poetry Specials, we talked about using similes and metaphors to make comparisons in our poems. For examples, we read through translations of Issa and Buson’s haiku, and Francisco X. Alarcon’s On […]

“Step into my house” with South Loop Poetry Club!

Last week at South Loop Elementary School, we read Mary Carolyn Davies’ “Portrait of a House” to start our thinking about what kind of buildings we go into everyday. We talked about stanzas being […]

Lines and Stanzas with Dulles

In our first week with Dulles, we learned about lines and stanzas in poetry. We read Alice Walker’s “How Poems Are Made” and wrote poetry to express our feelings. Then on Thursday, we read […]

“I am so sad, that I’m not glad!” Emotional Lines in Poems

For our first lesson together at South Loop Elementary, we read “How Poems Are Made” by Alice Walker. We studied lines, line breaks, and how the length of a line can change the emotion […]

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