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4th graders Explore Art in Chicago

As we get closer to the end of our residency, I wanted to have a fun lesson for 4th graders. Since, they love to draw, for their 9th week, we learned about Ekphrastic poetry. […]

‘Family time is the best’

Lesson Note: For our last week, we celebrated poetry by writing acrostic poems about our favorite seasons! Congrats on everyone in the class for writing so many incredible poems and getting published over the […]

6th graders do a Mic Check

For our 5th and final week of our mini residency, 6th graders read and discussed ideas about Open Mics. Open mics are events open to the public, safe, welcoming places to share your creativity, […]

More Instructions

Some students in Mr. Adenuga’s class were still interested in creating poems that give instructions for how to do things….and so we continued. Notice how one student chose a straight forward approach, while others […]

Poetic Forms and Cootie Catchers (5th)

Today, was our last day before break and the last lesson in our unit on surprise and play. We talked about how varied poetic forms can be and how there are no rules in […]

Winter poems (K)

Today, in Ms. Icho’s kindergarten, we went on a magic adventure through winter! We looked at different winter pictures and talked about what we would see, smell, taste, touch, and hear at the playground, […]

‘Then put red tomatoes in’: Food & Memory Poems

A discussion of food and memory began our class in preparation to study Gary Soto’s Narrative Style poem, Oranges. Nostalgia and feelings came up a lot in our talks. What emotions are attached to […]

Guess Who?

Last week, Carver students spent some time playing a very different role: for our poetry assignment, we stepped into new identities through persona poems. Before diving into our own writing process, we watched “Shooter” […]

Where I’m From…

7th Grade This week we wrote about where we come from and how home shapes us. We talked about how using the five senses is really important because it helps a poem come alive, […]

Wish Poems

4th Grade What would you wish for if you knew it would come true? Today we made a wish list poem and talked about all the emotions we feel when we make a wish. […]

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