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Seven Myths about Poetry Today there are many myths about poetry. Late last century a surge took place among young people, teens began ...

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Let Evening Come BY JANE KENYON Let the light of late afternoon shine through chinks in the barn, moving up the bales as the sun moves ...

The Railway Children When we climbed the slopes of the cutting We were eye-level with the white cups Of the telegraph poles and the si...

Happy Ground Hog Day!   For breaking news, see http://www.groundhog.org/ Self-Starter: Picture Prompts -- Children's Books?    Finis...

Here's a poem by U.S. Poet laureate, Billy Collins from  http://www.edutopia.org/trouble-poetry The Trouble with Poetry: A Poem of E...

Some places to look for poetry: Poetry Links 1. http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/poemiddle.htm 2. http://www.poetry4kids.com/links 3. htt...

Bell-Ringer:  Bingo Prompt   B3 did Bingo A3, B4 did Bingo B2. What is Poetry? Today students read about, read, listened to, and viewed p...

Today students wrote Tritinas . These are free verse poems, each with a particular format. Tritina comes from the Latin word for three. Th...

Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird Wallace Stevens I Among twenty snowy mountains, The only moving thing Was the eye of the blackbir...

1. Bell-ringer:  Make a list of as many children's books (books for preschool and elementary age you have known and perhaps loved) as yo...

1. Bell-Ringer: Create a Halloween poem using five words or phrases you draw from the envelope.  You may add words, and use the words in any...

Don't forget to bring your Me-Bag if you signed up for today: Liam Hannah Rachel Karla Megan Brogan Brice Monica Kennedi Bell...

February 29, 2008 More poetry! Self-starter: In your notebook, List 15 objects that are important to you. 1. About Odes. Odes Odes we...

February 27, 2008 We finished reading Love That Dog . Students typed up three "inspired by" or other original poems. Studen...

February 25, 2008 Students presented "Poems for Two Voices" with partners (obviously). We read more from Love That Dog by Sharon ...

February 21, 2008 Students wrote a poem in response to the picture on the overhead (a painting). It should be at least 4 lines. It may...

October 4, 2007 Students received a tape-in of "My Rambling Autobiography," and wrote a rambling biography for the self-starter. W...

October 2, 2007 Students described three different types of crackers as thoroughly as they could. We read from Love That Dog by Sharon Cree...