This week 6th and 7th graders worked together to create exquisite corpse poems. Each student responded to a prompt “What animal scares you the most?” and passed their papers to the next student to either write a line based on another prompt or their classmate’s response above. Together they created a series of collaborative poems. Please enjoy a selection of them below.
Ms. Smallwood
6th Grade
The tiger with fierce teeth
the tiger with fierce teeth
green means go
A bed from the wall versus a bed on the floor
why they hid the fact they were in the mafia
pregunta que yo se voy aregresa a Colombia
I would live in a city by the beach
Vibrant!
and bright
just like your eyes
just like your smile
just like you
people talking non-stop
The funniest thing in the world is my friend
mine is a chicken
Clouded Leopards
Clouded Leopards, they don’t scare me. I’m scared for them
the color green reminds me of nature and nature calls sometimes
some animals like the caterpillar are also green
the morning
the sun shines brightly
so does the moon
so does my love for you
descubrí una casa abandonada y empecé a caminar por la casa avia
un espejo y vi mi reflejo y el de otra persona cuando voltea no estaba
me angusti y escuche un silbido muy fuerte y seguí caminando
y la casa se echaban pasos pero esos paso vibraban y entonces empezó
agotar y después me fui de nay
you need to find your discovery
five, because I’m cool like that
Nathaniel sounds of CNN intro
we owe no allegiances
“why is earth a weird color?”
because of water and land
an animal that scares me
an animal that scares me is a bee
it means trees & grass (Nature)
the wind brushes along everywhere
wind in my hair
love in the air
hate in the stars
but everywhere there is kindness
tiene que conocer el mundo
the color green means life
all of them
I want to go home
I ate mercury
one pound fish
I love earth
for being in love
with jupiter
with you
the dark
slapstick
Ms. Hernandez
7th Grade
A tarantula
A tarantula scares me because they’re long and furry and look
weird. the color green is just a color, no hate but not a favorite, a pretty
mid color, grass, trees, nature. Seattle has hills and puget sound.
bugs and fish all around. Chicago has no hills, no
sound, no fish, but bugs are all around. I hate
bugs but they are so cute.
My favorite animal is a cat because they are very
small, quiet, and cute.
la estación que menos me gusta es el invierno
porque no podemos ir a el lago o a la piscina
pues no lo perdi como tal pero hace
un tiempo que ya no lo veo
Bugs scare me
Bugs scare me especially spiders, they crawl and are just weird and creepy,
Green means life and grass to me, noting
it is very green and wet, muddy, disgusting
The sounds around me scare me sometimes if it is too loud
Nada, no tengo pregonas para ellos en realidad, pero bueno
my favorite song is Hasta la muerte by Ivan Cornejo
pues para mí el color verde es solo un pobre otros es suerte
la oscurida me da demasiado miedo
I went home to fresh cookies
I saw the alligator’s sharp teeth
I saw the alligator’s sharp teeth
It was super scary. It was LARGE
Florida and Chicago, Florida is warm and tropical, Chicago is
cold and windy, I love Florida and I love Chicago. I want to know
what they were like as kids: nice mean, funny, or kind of mid.
I love living in Florida.
I hate big animals that are bigger than humans whether
it is a water animal or land. the color green reminds me
of the palm trees in California and Florida.
Yo no salgo de mi casa solo y ido al lago
pero fue hace un tiempo ya
como estas la casa bien pero…
Eres la razón de mi sonrisas, con quien sueño
