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‘I take a big, deep breath’: Meditation Poems

Students participated in a short meditation and breathing exercise. I read I Close My Eyes by David Ignatow.  After the meditation, they were asked to write whatever came to mind. Classwork was conducted in […]

Erasure Poems

This week we took a look at some examples of erasure poetry. Students saw many different forms, using the page they were given for their own poems to make a variety of poems with […]

What I Like: Acrostic Poems

We wrote Acrostic poems to introduce ourselves and some of what we like. What would you add to an Acrostic poem about yourself; can you read our names within our poem? We will soon […]

Poemas Sobre Música | Poems About Music

¡Estos son nuestros poemas sobre la música!  ¡Y pensamos que la voz también es un instrumento! These are our poems about music!  And we think the voice is an instrument too! ____________ No Music […]

Odas | Odes

We read Poem for the Tin-tun-teros, by Brenda Cárdenas, and we talked about a poem called an Ode: this is a poem you write for or about someone or something special. Here are our […]

Un Año para Recordar | A Year to Remember

Leímos el poema, fresca, escrito por Nayyirah Waheed y nos da la inspiración de pensar en lo que pasará. Entonces, estamos pensando en este año y en lo que podría ser. Primero respondimos preguntas […]

Símil | Simile

We are thinking about similes and practicing writing them. Here are some of our similes and soon we will share poems that we’ve written inspired by them! Estamos pensando sobre símil y practicando escribiendo […]

Veo Veo… Poemas I Spy…Poems

¡Nos divertimos mucho practicando la escritura de poemas con descripción y detalles cuando escribimos estos poemas! Pensábamos en el juego de ‘Veo Veo…’ y pensábamos en maneras de usar nuestras palabras para describir y […]

Identities and Lesson From Nature

I was really looking forward to getting back to LYHS this week and introducing my students to one of my favorite poets. Chicago’s very own Jose Olivarez. I really enjoy sharing work that students […]

The Projector, El Tiburón, and Other Personas

This week was all about personas at Lawndale. After an enthusiastic game of “What’s My Name?” we read “Being A Bag” by Washington Elementary’s Asano L, and got to work. Please enjoy! Ms. Barker […]

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