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“blue is a welcoming sky”

For our 6th sessions Twain 3rd graders turned their attention to using sensory details to describe color. Our key term was METAPHOR, and we practiced removing the words “like” and “as” from similes to […]

Concrete Poetry

This week was all about concrete poetry, which is poetry that forms the shape of something on the page with words, like visual poetry. We read “Whenever you see a tree” by Padma Vankatraman, […]

Things To Do If You Are a 4th grader

For their sixth week of poetry Twain 4th graders learned about making a “To Do” list. With responsibilities school and work, this type of list can help someone keep track of all the tasks […]

Where’s Your Happy Place?

It’s the second week of our residency together and as we get to know each other, students are also feeling the stress of current events in the city and the stress it has caused. […]

Self Portraits

For our very first session together, Vaughn HS students created self portraits of themselves within their poems. We began by diving into an example of my own self-portrait and discussing what they’ve learned about […]

My Family is a Zoo

Twain 4th graders start the month of November thinking about family. For our 5th session of poetry we talked about what family means and where we fit in our families. Some students like me […]

‘Computers made of marshmallows’ and other poems!

This week was all about being silly and using our imaginations. We thought outside the box and read a poem by Ethan B. about things that don’t usually go together, like “a reindeer made […]

Image, Imagination, Imagery!

So far – in addition to covering LINE, STANZA, and SIMILE – 3rd graders at Twain have learned that poems can be inspired by likes [and dislikes], as well as curiosities and dreams. Today […]

“…to make stuff up in your mind”

Our 4th sessions gave Twain 3rd graders an opportunity to contemplate dreams. We read Carole Boston Weatherford’s “Which Way to Dreamland?” and noticed its questions, rhymes, and repeating lines. One of students’ favorite stanzas […]

Wanted: A Wizard’s Assistant

Halloween is this week, a time of candy, costumes, and spooky fun. For their 4th session of poetry I asked Twain 4th graders, “What is something that you want, that seems impossible? How can […]

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