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Students began in creative play by wishing on a star for their deepest desires. Then they heard and read Choose Something Like A Star by Robert Frost, before trying their hands at their own […]

Inspired by Wallace Stevens’ Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird, students examined a sea shell from different angles and then used similes to describe it in verse. Lesson Note: ‘My approach to writing […]

A common household object became the focus for this lesson while studying Joy Harjo’s poem, Perhaps The World Ends Here. The poet James Merrill once commented that ‘we understand history from the family around […]

Students read a school memory-themed poem, by student poet, Connor S., (below), talked about using the stanza as a container for creativity in a poem, and then crafted their own poems on school memories. […]

Students got their hands moving across the page, a technique to get one writing without worrying about the outcome, before reading the poem, ‘Quiet Night Thought (s) ‘ by Li Po. They then crafted […]

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