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Tongue Twisters

It was great to be back at Hale Elementary. We hadn’t seen each other since before Christmas Break. For our 11th poetry session, after school 3rd-5th graders explored alliteration. Alliteration is when you repeat […]

‘Tis The Season…

Winter is here and what better way to celebrate than with a fresh batch of poems? This week, Hale’s 6-8th grade poets donned some holiday spirit and crafted seasonal poems. Despite Chicago’s winter cold, […]

Holiday Personas

This week was all about the winter holidays for Hale’s 3rd-5th grade afterschool poets. On Tuesday we read the poem, “December 31,” by Amy VanDerwater. In her poem VanDerwater uses rhyme and repetition to […]

Poems For The Eyes

After a long holiday break, Hale’s middle school poetry crew is back at it this week with some boundary-pushing poems. This week’s theme was “poems you can see,” and we tested the waters by […]

Let’s Make Some Noise

This week for their ninth after school poetry session 3rd-5th graders at Hale became noisemakers! Students were introduced to onomatopoeia, words in poetry that imitate sounds from people and objects. On Tuesday we read […]

How We Give

Last week was Thanksgiving and the 3rd-5th grade poets of Hale Elementary celebrated by reading and writing poems about giving. Together we read the poem “How I Give,” by London S a student from […]

Nature In Chicago

For their seventh week of after school poetry, Hale Elementary 3rd-5th graders explored ideas about Nature. We focused on the poetry term personification, when non-human things behave like humans. On Tuesday we read the […]

Memories That Make Us

By now, Hale’s 6-8th poetry club students have read a breadth of poets spanning a range of identities. Each queer, Black, Latinx, and Asian American poet has offered wisdom and taught us a new […]

Spaces and Places

The places we blossom from tell great stories of our journeys. This week, Hale 6-8th grade poetry club explored this theme and relied on their five senses to paint a more vivid picture of […]

Colorful Similes

This week the 3rd-5th graders of Hale’s after school poetry explored similes. On Tuesday we read the poem “Colors Of The World,” by Pablo H. a student from Moos Elementary . In his poem […]

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