Students read the poem, ‘Thought Machine’ by Laura Mucha from the book Being Me; they then wrote about their thoughts using metaphors and similes.
Lesson Note: “I learned that the only way to get a thing done is to start to do it, then keep on doing it, and finally you’ll finish it, even if in the beginning you think you can’t do it at all.”– Langston Hughes, The Big Sea
Ms. Romano, 7th Grade
What I Think and Feel
by Jadah D.
My mind is a time machine
When I think it goes on and on
My thoughts are a race car
When my thoughts are like this
I do dance moves and listen to
music and sleep, but sometimes
my thoughts take over, and I
can’t sleep I have dreams that
make me
can’t sleep.
Cloud, Berry
by Maliyah W.
I have to pet pugs.
and I love the clouds. and Berries
My pet pugs’ names are Clouds and Berry
Cloud is as soft as a cloud, and Berry
smells like berries.
When I am walking outside I
look up at the clouds, and it
reminds me of Cloud my pug.
and when I’m picking berries and
the smell of the Berrie’s run circles
around my nose like kids playing
ring-around-the rosey, it reminded
me of my pug Berry.
My pug Cloud loves to chase
the clouds like a cat catching
a string.
Berry, my pug, loves to eat Berries
Like a bear eating honey right after
it wakes up from hibernating.
And when I see them playing
I feel so sweet, like I’m eating
a strawberry. and my cat’s name is
Princess, she reminded me of every
Disney princess.
Princess, Cloud, Berry
is a great name, ain’t it?
Ms. Turner, 6th Grade
Thoughts Inside My Mind
by Braje
My mind is a fish my thoughts are like an old base
ball my mind is like a moon my thoughts
are flowers when my thoughts are like this
I sit and stare
What’s On My Mind
by Alayah J.
My mind is a soft fluffy cloud
My thoughts are a sea they wave
My mind is a storm
My thoughts are flowers
When my thoughts are like this
somehow I think positive things like
Watching TV, and I have my phone.
Ms. Romano, 7th Grade
My Mind and My Thoughts
by Regina R.
My mind is a fortress
My thoughts are like birds; they are everywhere
My mind is free
My thoughts are wind
When my thoughts are like this, I seem to be excited!
Brain Game
by Bobby L.
When my brain is off
I can’t think when my
Brain is on it feels like
a Brain Machine
My mind is a turtle
My thoughts are birds
My feet are squirrels
My head is a globe
My chest holds bullets
My feet they can walk and talk
Ms. Turner, 6th Grade
Thoughts On My Mind
by Ralph
Sometimes my brain is a runner
because it never stops, I think: I CAN’T WAIT
FOR GYM CLASS, I’M READY FOR BASKETBALL
My thoughts are.
The Heart
by Marcus
My heart is pounding, it keeps pounding
my chest every time it’s super fast
or when I’m super hot, I get scared
when it does that.
My mind keeps saying stuff like
a phone, but I can’t talk ’cause every time
it stops it’s like it doesn’t like my
mouth and me.
