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Blackout Poetry: Parting Action Shots

For part of our final project days, students created, ‘Blackout Poems’. They used ‘found language’ and images to create new meanings. Here are some ‘in action’ shots of student hands working away. Blackout Poetry: […]

Remember Who You Are

For their 10th and final day of poetry, Twain 6th graders explored ideas about memories. We discussed the importance of remembering. Whether its remembering happy memories such as birthday parties, family vacations, and first […]

“O, Neptune’s stars how did you/ become so bright?”: Out of this World….Poems

Students read a student poem, listened to Robert Frost’s star-themed poem, ‘Choose Something Like A Star,’ that used personification to talk to a star before trying their hands at their own poems addressing something… […]

Let’s Celebrate with Poetry at Twain!

There was so much to celebrate for 6th graders during their ninth session of poetry. There was a pop-up poetry event for 5th and 6th graders in the school auditorium, where Chicago Poetry Center […]

Letters delivered to you from Twain 6th graders

For their 8th week of poetry Twain 6th graders explored epistolary poetry. Epistolary poems are poems that can be written as letters, notes, or diary entries. We discussed the different ways people communicate with […]

Who? Where? What? Why? When? How? Twain 6th graders want to know!

For their seventh week of poetry Twain Elementary 6th graders explored the purpose of asking questions. They were asked “Why do people ask questions?” and “Does every question have to have an answer?” Most […]

“”My voice is a squirrel with wings: Slam-Style Voice-Themed Poems

Students wrote and performed short group ‘My Voice”-themed slam-style poems after watching a poetry slam teen performance video! Lesson Note: “You don’t need permission to make your art. No one needs an artistic license […]

Alternate Names for 6th graders

Fort their sixth week of poetry, Twain Elementary 6th graders explored ideas when it came to names and their meanings. Names give us a sense of identity, but names are powerful, they can also […]

“My name means a country”: Name Dropping

‘I celebrate and sing myself…’-Walt Whitman Students explored names through a series of prompts which began with a reading a a girl named jack by Jaqueline Woodson, What occurs in the naming of someone […]

Twain 6th graders get emotional

Twain Elementary 6th graders got very emotional for their 5th week of poetry. We did a warmup theatre activity, where three volunteers were given situations from their classmates such as a dog eating their […]

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