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“Language — Conversation — All poetry” Editing Poems with Dulles

During our 4th week at Dulles, we read an erasure poem from Austin Kleon’s “Newspaper Blackout” to start a conversation about editing our work and how to recycle pieces of poetry to make something […]

Chicago Poems (Kindergarten)

Today, in Ms. Icho’s kindergarten class, we went on an imaginary tour of Chicago! We got into the bus and buckled our seatbelts and went around our neighborhoods and some of the city’s most […]

Words are the Clouds

Last week at Symyser, the 4th graders and I read Words are Birds by Francisco X Alarcón. In addition to finding the connections Alarcòn makes between words and birds, we identified how the poem […]

‘A True Account of Talking to Ballet Shoes in the New York Award Assembly’: O’Hara-style Poems

A lesson on Personification, giving human qualities to something non-human via the poem: A True Account of Talking to the Sun at Fire Island. We took a look at Frank O’ Hara’s touching and […]

“My cat is the ocean on a sunny day.” Metaphors and loved ones with South Loop Poetry Club

This week at South Loop Poetry Club, we read Francisco X. Alarcón’s “On Monday I Feel Like a Dragon.” Our young poets raced to see who could find the most similes and metaphors. Since […]

Dear Kobe

Lesson Note: This week, we learned all about epistolary poems by reading “Dear Basketball: by Kobe Bryant. Then everyone wrote their own letter poems! We also wrote our own myth poems this week. Mrs. […]

Metaphors, two ways

During our 3rd poetry session at Waters Elementary, we tackled one of the most omnipresent forces in poetry – the metaphor! First, we listened to “Firework” by Katy Perry to find the metaphor there. […]

Say It Loud

Hello again, dear reader! Last week, Carver students got comfortable getting loud through a number of theater exercises. As we play around with performance styles, we talked a bit about how variety of tone […]

Making Sense with Sound

During our third week together, the students of Ms. Jackson’s class wrote poems with rhyme and alliteration in mind. On Tuesday, we read Langston Hughes’ poem “Harlem” and looked at the perfect rhyme used. […]

What’s In A Name…

In our first week at Perez Elementary, we got started with Mr Reinholdt’s 7th graders by introducing ourselves and talking about our names. We read two poems, both written by Foster Elementary students that […]

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