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Booked! Metaphor & List Poems #1

Pre-Winter Break Classrooms can be challenging, but the 8th Graders at Washington Elementary had fun with this one: We studied the whimsical poem ‘Library’ by poet and toy collector, Albert Goldbarth. In it, he […]

‘Horses don’t go’ Personifcation & Imagination in Poetry

This week took the class into more Narrative style poetry, adding Personification and the Vernacular with a bit of humor. The studied text was Frank O’Hara’s ‘A True Account of Talking To The Sun […]

‘the/Girl with the maroon dress/And as she said yes…’: Narrative & Memory

This week’s lesson was sparked by Gary Soto’s wonderful poem ‘Oranges’ which details a pre-teen couple’s date on a cold December day. This served as the class’s jumping off point to write their own […]

A Tree Grows at Washington!

My first day at Washington began in a roomful of expectant students: Mrs. Nazimek’s 8th Grade classroom. After introductions, and some votes on ‘Who reads poetry?’ (Among the ‘yeses’ and ‘no’s’ there were also […]

Students answer the question, “If life is a game, are we wining or losing?”

If life is a game, are we winning or losing? Read some of the student’s response to the prompt below. Jesus B. Life is like a game. Are we winning when we have more […]

Views from our fathers…

Students reflect on their experience with their dads as part of our rites of passage writing program – writing to critically think about our identity and how that affects our lives today. Elizabeth C. […]

Be a hero…

If you had one superpower what would it be? Students at George Washington High write the following in response… Mind-Reading by Miriam M. Mind-reading enables me to completely understand people I may have thought […]

Exploring community in the far Southside…

  I take the Indiana toll bridge to head to George Washington High located in the far Southside of Chicago. Most of the time when taking a major bridge I am captivated by the […]

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