Happy Friday, dear readers! Hale’s 6-8th grade poetry club had a blast this week diving deeper into figurative language. We spent our time together focused on metaphors and what makes them so important in poetic language. On Tuesday, students read Chen Chen’s “Self-Portrait as So Much Potential” and pondered what it could possibly mean to be “an arctic attic.” Students did some brainstorming on some of the people, places, and things nearest and dearest to them, then wrote their own self-portrait poems with metaphorical language. On Wednesday, we continued our metaphor practice with found poems. After browsing books for a few minutes, students built a list of captivating words, using them to create interesting metaphors in their new poems. We ended our week with a lively open mic where students shared their writing for the week.
Check out this poem by our eighth grade student Bee comparing themselves to a flower.
Ms. Marasovich’s After School
Grades 6-8
Self-Portrait – Bee Is A Flower
Bee V.
I am a flower
Soft petals
I am delicate
Precious and fragile and lovely
It is easy to break me
I can wither away
But I can also be brought back to life
Unlike a flower
I am kind and light hearted
Always to be taken for granted
Being outside brings me serenity and serendipity
Serendipity
I would like to think I am happy and beneficial
Always making people smile and feel safe
Tulips, Roses, Peonies,Carnations, Sunflowers, Daisies,
Dahlia, Marigolds, Hibiscus, Lavender, Lilac, Buttercups
and so many more
But I am just me
Bee the flower
