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Dear Mayor of Chicago

On the last day of the residency, students from each class did a poetry reading from their poetry books (see previous poets). The students in Mrs. Yanez/Ms. Sauer’s class had extra time, so the […]

Ekphrastic poetry part 2

During this week’s session, students wrote poems based on their peer’s drawings. Here’s what they created. Mr. Alzola third grade At the Party By Nathalie we eat cake we eat candy we eat food […]

Ekphrastic poetry part 1

Students begin learning about ekphrastic poetry by creating drawings that where then given to write poems about here. Here’s the first part of the lesson where students drew images.

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Poetry Books Part 2

Students revised their poems written earlier in the residency and drew illustrations to accompany their poems.  

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Poetry Books Part 1

Students revised previously written poems, wrote them in a booklet and drew illustrations to accompany their poems. Check out what they created. After School By Brianna B. On Fridays By Emmaanuel Poetry By Cinthia […]

Poetry Comic, Part 2

Part 2 of our poetry comics unit rounded out this year’s 5th grade residency at Burbank! Here are some of the incredible multimedia poems by our students: Anhi M. Ethan F. Kevin M. Armani […]

Poetry Comics, Pt. 1

For our final two weeks of the Burbank Elementary Chicago Poetry Center residency, we created poetry comics using the poems we’d written throughout the semester as the inspiration for this experiment in graphic poetry […]

Feeling Like an Animal

For week twelve, our Burbank poets studied Francisco X. Alarcon’s “On Monday I Feel Like a Dragon / El lunes me siento como un dragón” in both English and Spanish. We analyzed how the […]

Snow Day

In week ten we wrote “Snow Day” poems, based on a lesson by Chasity Gunn. First we read “Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening” by Robert Frost and talked about what snowy days […]

One Small Thing

In week nine, we read the poem “One Vote” by Aimee Nezhukumatathil and talked about how one small decision can make a big difference over time, adding up into the people we become. Food […]

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