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Poetry Final Party (5th Grade)

We celebrated our final day of 5th grade poetry with a party today! We received our beautiful poetry anthologies, with a poem from each student. We then had a reading and the excitment in […]

Poetry Final Party (8th grade)

On Wednesday, we had our last day of poetry class! We started the class by passing out our class poetry anthology and then celebrated with a reading. The poems were hilarious and tender and […]

Questions

What’s do you think is more important, the answer or the question? This week we read excerpts from Pablo Nerudas The Book of Questions and talked about some of the answerable and unanswerable questions […]

Body Stanzas

This week we celebrated our amazing bodies! We started by asking what students thought the most powerful part of their body was. From feet, to brains, to our hearts, thwy did such a great […]

I love the energy!

I love the energy that Shoesmith 4th graders bring to our poetry workshops each week! They always seem open to new ideas, ready to think, and eager to tap into their creativity. If we […]

Living on the Verge

One could argue that we’re always living in the midst of change. It’s true now and it was definitely true a quarter century (!!) ago, when we were on the verge of a new […]

Hero’s Anthem

Our 6th poetry session was all about celebrations for Shoesmith 5 and 6th graders. Some of the students participated in their school poetry slam competition. The theme for the slams was poems about heroes. […]

‘Unity’: A Series of 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 is formed or an […]

Free Write- 7th Grade

This week I wanted to let students explore and play on the page, and we focused on some free writing. It worked out because students were a little burnt out after testing. Instead of […]

Cutting Up: Collage Poems

Students used magazines to create cut-up or collage poems, using ‘found language’ and images to create new meaning. Contributors are: 7th and 8th Grade Students from Mrs. McClain’s Classroom: Piper M., Sloan L., Noah […]

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