This week we read an exerpt from “Some Puts a Pineapple Together” by Wallace Stevens. The students discussed how Stevens takes an everyday object and sees many wondrous worlds inside of it. I asked them use their own imaginations, to write many scenes about a new object… a purple cabbage! Enjoy!
Ms. Pease
4th Grade Literary Arts
Room 214
Purple Cabbage
Melanie M.
A gigantic grape,
round and soft,
wrinkly but purple
It landed on the seashore
from the milky way,
like a brain with an unusual color
So moist to touch
Six arms so pale,
so white, so pale, white snow
Someone Put a Cabbage Together
Eduardo H.
A brown and purple brain
Half like a zombie no, a
neat zombie ate it
A miniature dome for
mini Super Bowl 50
A rare purple turtle
inside its shell
Frozen volcano lava
from 3,000 years ago
Cabbage
Isaly H.
A big tree in the middle
surrounded by darkness
and dark magic.
Back like a beetle’s shell,
like a witch’s brain,
filled with darkness.
The Backstory of the Cabbage
Jovanny B.
A gigatic purple mountain
with all its beauty and
dignity
If the extinct lumpy owl
was here now,
it would take away the purple
lumpy grape
A very yucky brain–
an unusual color for a brain
Room 215
Cabbage
Hector F.
A brain
A purple root
It’s growing up
A purple tree
Like lava
The Purple Cabbage
Emmanuel M.
The purple flower
Growing with purple Water
With a purple person
Who is big
Cabbage
Jair M.
The tree is black
And looks like a brain
Like a ball
Someone Puts A Cabbage Together
Erick R.
The face is a tree moving the branches
Like a wolf blowing the branches away
Purple like a brain
Like an eye looking at you
Like an alien in space
And a purple world on top
Like aliens waving branches
And flowers that are like houses
Room 216
Daevian Put a Cabbage Together
Daevian S.
It’s a tree of fire
A ball of fire
A teacher’s vocabulary
When it comes out of the ground
I can’t wait for it to grow
We cook it up today
With some cornbread
And the best greens ever
Cabbage
Angel M.
Looks like a tree for me
And from the front
A brain
The Purple Earth
Bryan G.
The earth cut in its half
Inside it’s wetter than the sea
The outside smooth as the cover of a book
Colors mixed and matched in a pattern
Are you a head?
No matter what you are, don’t tell me
Even if I ask.
Someone Put A Cabbage Together
Christian L.
I hope we could throw the purple dodge ball
What a weird shape but gigantic
The big house never stops rolling over
Just like a brain but too purple
Growing like other plants
