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Show Don’t Tell

In week seven of the residency, we built on our previous week’s exploration of using our five senses to evoke memories, and used that to understand the concept of “Show Don’t Tell.” In other […]

Sensing Memories

This week our students wrote about memories using their five senses to describe moments they’ve experienced that have made an impact on them. We prepared to write our own poems by reading the model […]

Odes

On week six of the residency, we built on the past two weeks of lessons on Comparisons and Similes to write odes to some of our favorite things. In doing so, we studied the […]

Similes

In weeks four and five of our Burbank residency, we expanded on our understanding of similes by thinking about the qualities and attributes of various objects and people that we interact with in our […]

Comparisons

On week three at Burbank Elementary, we wrote poems grounded in the concept of similes: comparing two unlike things (using the words “like” or “as.” The results were spectacular: Poems by Mia   A […]

Sound Poems

On Week two of Burbank Elementary’s Hands on Stanzas residency, we wrote poems about the sounds we hear in the different spaces and places where we live: at home, at school, and outside. Sound […]

Wishes

Starting out our poetry residency at Burbank Elementary, student poets used their imagination to create wish poems, inspired by the model poem “I Wish” by Beth S. (a previous Hands On Stanzas student). Students […]

I Wish

Students wrote poems displaying their wishes. Mr. Aguirre’s class third grade I Wish By Nathalie I wish my birthday come I wish go vacations I wish not to go to school I wish to […]

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