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A Book From Pájaros: Where We’re From

For our final week of writing poems together, I wanted to students to write autobiographically, and paint us a picture of where they are from, just like George Ella Lyon does in her poem […]

I Used To Be A Monday / But Now I’m A Friday

We’re nearing the end of our poetry residency, and so we reflect. The at 2nd Graders recalled all of their big poetry vocabulary for the year, and then we thought about all the ways […]

I Am The Moon Looking At The Moon

We started off our lesson by reading The Delight Song of Tsoai-talee by N. Scott Momaday. We continued our examination of imagery, metaphor, and personification. I asked the students to write their own “I […]

My Blue Poem: Colors Personified at Darwin

The second graders have been putting together many skills lately: personification, imagery, metaphor, simile, and their poems are so rich because of it! I thought I’d give them this prompt, and see what they […]

When You Are Nothing You Can Be The Wind

The second graders investigated their classroom for objects to personify. If the books suddenly came alive, what would they do? What would they say? We cast a magic spell over the room and brought […]

Dear Summer: Seasonal Haiku @ Darwin Elementary

What is your favorite season? The 2nd graders at Darwin like them all! I asked the students to start by writing about their favorite season, and then see if they could write one poem […]

Yo pienso que la luna viene a mi y las estrellas también

What do you think about as you drift off to sleep? We used Li Po’s contemplative “Quiet Night Thoughts,” to consider our thoughts between waking life and dreams. Because he is so skilled in […]

The Spider Is A Guide: Deconstruction At Darwin

This week the 2nd Graders took a look at Someone Puts a Pineapple Together, by Wallace Stevens. We inspected an actual pineapple to try and figure out how Stevens got such wild images out […]

Strange books at Darwin Elementary

This week the second grade student poets at Darwin read about the most magical library… ever! We imagined all sorts of crazy books, and here are some of the fantastic results! Mr. Rence 2nd […]

¿Delfín, por qué no llevas a las niñas a la escuela? Preguntas @ Darwin

After reading William Blake’s poem, The Tyger, the students wrote a poem to a strange and mysterious animal. We set the scene: for one day, you and this animal speak the same language! Ask […]

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