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The People & Places We Come From

For our first week together at Dulles, we talked about the people and places we come from, beginning with the poem “Roots” by Clint Smith. On Tuesday, students thought about what they have in […]

All About Wishes and Sensory Details

Lesson Note: For our first week, we wrote poems about our wildest wishes, and then wrote poems about some of the places in our lives where we see, hear, touch, smell, and taste some […]

‘…filled with big bloom flowers’: Exquisite Corpse Group Poems!

Students crafted visual and then poetic Exquisite Corpses! Afterward, they were challenged to create a clay figure of one of their collective group drawings! Below are some images and some of the group poems […]

Where do we find poetry?

For our first day with Ms. Wilson’s 4th-grade class at Dulles Elementary, we asked ourselves, what is poetry? And where is it? and when what and why? These 4th graders had lots of insightful […]

Lines and Stanzas with Dulles

In our first week with Dulles, we learned about lines and stanzas in poetry. We read Alice Walker’s “How Poems Are Made” and wrote poetry to express our feelings. Then on Thursday, we read […]

The meaning behind 6th graders names @ Dulles

This week I was excited to meet my group of 6th graders to begin our mini poetry residency. For the next five weeks I’ll be teaching and writing poetry with 6th graders on Tuesdays […]

3rd Grade Inventions

It’s hard to believe that we are already halfway thru our poetry residency! For our fifth sessions together, Twain 3rd graders discussed thinking “out-of-the-box:” being inventive, using our imaginations, and the pictures that come […]

4th Grade Sound Collaboration

For our 2nd session, 4th graders in Mr. Adenuga’s class reviewed the senses: sight, smell, touch, taste, and hearing. We then collaborated on a “Sound Poem.” Sound Poem We hear sounds of life and […]

“I am so sad, that I’m not glad!” Emotional Lines in Poems

For our first lesson together at South Loop Elementary, we read “How Poems Are Made” by Alice Walker. We studied lines, line breaks, and how the length of a line can change the emotion […]

4th graders celebrate with odes!

For the fifth week in our residency, Twain 4th grades explored ode poetry. Odes are poems where the poet praises and celebrates significant people, places, and things. Students were asked “what type of things […]

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