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‘The fish dance/ When they come to us’: Food & Culture Poems

“I think cultures can clash and cultures can meld.”-Martha Stewart on her cooking show and relationship with rapper, Snoop Dogg. As we continue distance instruction, students at Taft Freshman Academy continue to generate beautiful […]

‘But Maybe Only the Stars Will Know’: Star Struck!

As we continue distance learning, students at Taft Freshman Academy continue to generate beautiful poems! This week’s poems are inspired by Robert Frost’s Choose Something Like A Star. In a slightly different approach, students […]

‘I’d expect you’d all cry’: Poems made from song lyrics and titles.

As we continue distance learning, students at Taft Freshman Academy continue to generate beautiful poems! This week’s poems are inspired by Kevin Young’s, There Is A Light That Never Goes Out, which is constructed […]

At Table: Poems Inspired by US Poet Laureate, Joy Harjo.

As we continue distance learning, students at Taft Freshman Academy continue to generate beautiful poems! This week’s poems are inspired by Joy Harjo’s poem, Perhaps The World Ends Here. Lesson Note: ‘In a time […]

‘…it wants to be white again’: Poems about Idenity and America

As we continue distance learning, students at Taft Freshman Academy continue to generate beautiful poems! After watching Poetry Out Loud Illinois state champion, Charles Hsu, recite our mentor text by poet Shirley Geok-lin Lim, […]

‘The day when I danced’: Shelter In Place Poems

As we continue distance learning, students at Taft Freshman Academy continue to generate beautiful poems! This week’s poems are inspired by Sheltered In Place by Richard Levine. Students examined/ observed how they passed time […]

‘Queer Canvas’: Portrait Poems

As we continue distance learning, students at Taft Freshman Academy continue to generate beautiful poems! How would we describe ourselves to another? What are the myriad of possibilities we hold inside of us and […]

‘To Kill A Mockingbird/ Technically’: Moving Away from Fixed Thinking in Poetry

As we continue distance learning, students at Taft Freshman Academy continue to generate beautiful poems! This week’s poems are inspired by country doctor and poet, William Carlos Williams. From books being read to electric […]

Shelter-In Poems #4: Police Brutality/ Hair/Small Mexican Doll/Me/I Am/ I Am/ I Am

As students sheltered-in-place, the 7th, 8th, and 9th graders at Taft Freshman Academy generated beautiful poems via E-Learning. This week’s poems are inspired by A Hot Property by Roland Wallace and the minimalist, William […]

Shelter-In Poems #3: ‘If I were a doctor…’

As we all shelter-in-place, students at Taft Freshman Academy continue to generate beautiful poems via E-Learning. This week’s poems are inspired by two works: When I Taught Her How To Tie Her Shoes by […]

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