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Out of School and into Summer Poems!

Greetings West Park poetry friends and followers! During our final meeting together, students celebrated their work by sharing poems out loud with their peers and teachers. Please help us celebrate students’ work by looking […]

Revisited Poems

Greetings West Park poetry friends and followers! After reviewing all of their poetry from the past six weeks, students selected a favorite poem to revisit, revise and read out loud. Students worked with a […]

What Matters to Me is Metaphors

Greetings West Park poetry friends and followers! This week’s lesson revolved around metaphors and important things. We discussed the difference between metaphors (which compare two unlike things as if they are the same) and […]

Five Directions Poems

Greetings West Park poetry friends and followers! This week’s lesson we focused on places—places we know very well, places we dream about visiting, and even imaginary places. We read the poem, “Five Directions to […]

Family Poems

Greetings West Park poetry friends and followers! This week’s poems are full of deeply felt feelings, because they are about people we know a lot about and care a lot about. Our poems from […]

Alive in Music Poems

Greetings West Park poetry friends and followers! During week 3, we read and discussed the poem “I Wish I Could Live (in Music),” by Nikki Giovanni. We discussed the term allusion—when a poet makes […]

My People Poems

Greetings West Park poetry friends and followers! During week 2, we read and discussed the poem “My People,” by Langston Hughes. We identified this poem as a list poem (a poem in the form […]

Self-Portrait Poems

Greetings West Park poetry friends and followers! We are embarking on an eight-week poetry journey and it’s off to an incredible start! We began by reading two short poems by Francisco Alarcón, “A Blank […]

Cento Poems

Our time together at West Park Fine Arts Academy with both of Ms. Chambers 7th grade classes has come to end. For our final lesson we did Cento Poems which are poems made from […]

Reflection

The poets from West Park Fine Arts Academy were asked to time travel…sort of. They were asked to imagine being visited by their future selves from 10 years in the future. What would their […]

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