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“Goodbye [2020] Hello [2021] Poems” from Avondale-Logandale 5th Graders

For our 6th remote session together, we had a poetry reading and 5th graders at Avondale-Logandale school shared poems and songs that they have been creating since November. Listening to so many expressions of […]

“Everyday I Have the Blues:” 5th Grade Blues poems & songs

Has 2020 given you the blues? Have you felt like lamenting? I wanted to create a poetry lesson that allowed creative exploration and expression of our bluesy feelings, so, for our 5th session together, […]

5th grade Creature poems!

For our 4th session together, Avondale-Logandale 5th graders considered the types of personalities that school and work days might have. They said that Mondays are grumpy; Tuesdays are tired; Wednesdays are a cross between […]

Making Sense of the World

The poets from Mrs. Gonzalez’s 7th grade class at Logandale are using their senses to describe the world around them. But! They are using their senses in 2 different ways…The first stanza of each […]

Of Similes and Metaphors

Similes and metaphors are a couple of the most used literary devices in writing. The poets from Mrs. Gonzalez’s class at Avondale-Logandale created several lines of similes and metaphors mostly using nature as their […]

Fantasies, Nightmares, and 5th Grade Dreaming

OMINOUS – meaning gloomy, or menacing – was a word that came up for Avondale-Logandale 5th graders, as we discussed the quality of dreams during our fourth remote poetry class. Even though there are […]

2 Sides of the Same City

One thing all of these poets have in common is the city they live in, Chicago. Chicago can be a marvelous town full of wonders and a cold crippling city with danger around every […]

What Makes You Unique? 5th Grade Autobiographical Poems

For my second time meeting remotely with 5th graders at Avondale-Logandale school, we talked about biography and autobiography, and “singing a song of oneself.” We learned that an ode shows respect for, or celebrates […]

5th Grade Missing School Poems

Even though I could only see small squares with students’ faces inside on my laptop, I could tell that Ms. Pannell’s 5th graders were curious about what our poetry time was going to be […]

Rhyming Poems – Avondale Logandale 3rd & 4th Grade – Winter 2020

Students worked on rhyme and creative writing they also learned brainstorming techniques and used examples from a group poem to write their own original poems. Ms. Lozada 3rd Grade   Untitled Adrian E.   […]

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