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Running into a new year

In Ms. Budzileni’s 8th grade class, we read Lucille Clifton’s “[running into a new year]” and thought about how we’re moving into this new year through these complicated times. We talked a lot about […]

Running into a new year

In Ms. Mild-Thomas’s 6th grade class, we read Lucille Clifton’s “[running into a new year]” and thought about how we’re moving into this new year through these complicated times. We talked a lot about […]

On Hearing Our Names

In Ms. Mild-Thomas’s class, we read Aimee Nezhukumatathil’s “On Listening to Your Teacher Take Attendance” and discussed how powerful her imagery, particularly of the pencil sharpener blade at the end, made us feel her […]

On hearing our names

In Ms. Buzileni’s class, we read Aimee Nezhukumatathil’s “On Listening to Your Teacher Take Attendance” and discussed how powerful her imagery, particularly of the pencil sharpener blade at the end, made us feel her […]

A Special Gift

Since this is a season of gift-giving, in Ms. Sanchez’s 5th grade class, we read Pablo Neruda’s Ode to My Socks. We loved the ways Neruda described the socks and his feet as so […]

Metaphors and Our Neighborhoods!

In Ms. Sanchez’s 5th grade classes at Dever Elementary, we read Valerie Bloom’s “Frost” and thought about how she stretched an extended metaphor for the snow all through her poem. We thought about how […]

If I were an animal…

In Ms. Sanchez’s 5th grade class, we read “How to Triumph like a Girl” and thought about the way the poet was able to show us new parts of her personality through the metaphor […]

If I were an animal…

In Ms. Budzelini’s 8th grade class, we read “How to Triumph like a Girl” and thought about the way the poet was able to show us new parts of her personality through the metaphor […]

If I were an animal…

In Ms. Mild-Thomas’s 6th grade class, we read Ada Limon’s “How to Triumph like a Girl” and discussed how through using the metaphor of a horse, the poem told us something new about the […]

Around this table

In Ms. Budzileni’s 8th grade class, we read Joy Harjo’s poem “Perhaps the World Ends Here” about all the things, literal and figurative that can happen around a kitchen table or in the center […]

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