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Sabin 5th Grade Poetry: Celebrating National Poetry Month!

¡En celebración del mes nacional de poesía los estudiantes de Sabin están decorando tablones de anuncio con su poesía e imágenes de poesía! In celebration of National Poetry Month students at Sabin are decorating […]

Sabin 5th Grade Poetry About What’s to Come

Con la llegada de la primavera estamos leyendo Nayyiryh Waheed y hemos estado hablando sobre el futuro, lo que venga y a dónde estamos yendo, en la vida y en nuestras imaginaciones. Estás poemas […]

Warming Up with Metaphors

Last Friday, we kicked off a short and sweet residency with 6th graders at Jordan Elementary! I talked about what students can expect over the course of our time together, experiences students have with […]

Self Portraits with Words

How do we paint a picture of ourselves with words? that’s the question that guided our last session at Waters elementary. First, students drew cartoon versions of themselves. Then, we read “Self Portrait” by […]

‘And the tape wears off and the streamers…’: Party Poems.

Students imagined life as a party and wrote poems using that metaphor based on Jason Shinder’s poem, ‘The Party.’ Lesson Note: “Find some humility, or it will find you.”― Jason Shinder, poet Mrs. McClain, […]

‘Remember that love is free’: Poems on Memory

Students wrote memory list poems based on Joy Harjo’s poem, ‘Remember’. Lesson Note: Harjo’s work is often autobiographical, informed by the natural world, and above all preoccupied with survival and the limitations of language. […]

‘impossible….good’:Blackout Poems

Blackout Poetry: A blackout poem is created when a poet takes a marker (usually black marker) to already established text–like that from a newspaper–and starts redacting words until a poem or image is formed. […]

Another Voice

For their 6th poetry session Hamline 6th graders explored persona poetry. I asked students to imagine seeing the world through someone else’s eyes. The word persona refers to the mask actors wore in ancient […]

Rainbows and Crayons, Part Two

I was so inspired by Swift students who put so much effort into using their senses to write and re-write their color poems this week! Bravo! Ms. Urquiza2nd Grade Yellow Isby Ethan R. Yellow […]

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 […]

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