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Sorry Not Sorry!

13 Mar 2014

Have you ever apologized for something you weren’t really sorry for? Me too. This week, we reveled in confessing our crimes, and saying just how sorry we… aren’t. I learned a few things about […]

The Taft 7th and 8th graders and I continued down our path of strange realities with an appropriately winterized poem this week, Wallace Steven’s “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird.” Our writing goal […]

Where We’re From

21 Feb 2014

This week the Taft students and I read “Where I’m From” by George Ella Lyon, with a sprinkling of “Poem 22” by Jo Carson. We talked about all the things you can be from, […]

Reality Collision!!!! Introductions and Exquisite Corpses

7 Feb 2014

What better way to get to know each other than collaborative poems? For our first week together, the students at Taft read two rather curious poems: “Long-Term Memory” by James Tate and “Tell Me […]

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