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Poetry Final Party (5th Grade)

We celebrated our final day of 5th grade poetry with a party today! We received our beautiful poetry anthologies, with a poem from each student. We then had a reading and the excitment in […]

Poetry Final Party (8th grade)

On Wednesday, we had our last day of poetry class! We started the class by passing out our class poetry anthology and then celebrated with a reading. The poems were hilarious and tender and […]

Poetry Publishing Day (5th)

Today was our last day of working on our poetry! We took the poems we have been revising for the past two weeks and created our final gorgeous versions of them. We talked about […]

Poetry Publishing Day (8th)

Today was our last day of working on our poetry! We took the poems we have been revising for the past two weeks and created our final gorgeous versions of them. We talked about […]

Kindergarten Final Party

We received our published books in Kindergarten today and held a final “Coffeeshop Party.” We ate sprinkle-y cookies (because poetry is full of color and detail and surprise!) and did a reading, including snapping […]

Experiments in Revision!

Today, we did a wild revision experiment in both the 5th and 8th grade classes at Clinton Elementary. The students each chose a poem from the year that they were interested in continuing to […]

Erasure Poetry (8th)

Today, we read and listened to Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach’s “Mir in Ukraine.” We talked about why she chose to write a poem about Ukraine by erasing Putin’s words instead of starting from scratch. The […]

Erasure Poetry (5th)

Today, we read and listened to Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach’s “Mir in Ukraine.” We talked about why she chose to write a poem about Ukraine by erasing Putin’s words instead of starting from scratch. The […]

Can poems take care of someone? (5th)

We continued talking about the purpose of art and poetry today, while reading several poems of Naomi Shihab Nye. We listened to her perform “Gate A-4” and then we read “Red Brocade.” We decided […]

Retellings (8th)

This week, in 8th grade, we read one of Eve L Ewing’s “Retellings.” We discussed the role of poetry in standing up to injustice and the ways that poetry can help us imagine different […]

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