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In love with veggies @ Peterson 7th Grade

Last week, we learned about dialect and line breaks using feminist playwright and author Ntozoke Shange’s poem “okra to greens/”. Students wrote their own poem comparing and contrasting two different foods while we talked […]

Special Delivery @ Peterson 6th Grade

For this week at Peterson, students explored the significance of letter writing. We discussed the creative ways people in the past sent messages before technology: carrier pigeons, ships, notes in a bottle, and the […]

You do not have to be good @ Peterson 7th Grade

Last week, we wrote poems inspired by Mary Oliver’s “Wild Geese” starting with the line “you do not have to be good” to explore the idea of goodness, and having agency over ones’ own […]

Transformation Poetry @ Peterson 6th Grade

I was ecstatic to meet the 6th graders of Peterson Elementary, especially since this is the first time Peterson is participating in the Hands on Stanzas program. These bright group of students are now […]

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