Poetry

Your youngest students will learn to write Japanese Haiku poetry.

What if we rewrote a piece of writing without using certain letters?

What if we rewrote a piece of writing without using certain letters?

Let’s write from multiple perspectives using an old timey holiday photo!

Students will look closely at this old image and write a short, structured poem.

Students will create a pretty darn interesting poem about Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons.

Students will create a surprisingly good poem based on Monet’s Impression, Sunrise.

Get your students writing some pretty darn impressive poetry based on Japan’s most famous artist.

Students will look closely at a piece of art and then write a structured poem about it.

Students will write about a beautiful painting from Frederic Edwin Church.

Your students will turn the iconic painting The Scream into a vivid, sensory poem.

Let’s take a classic Christmas poem and remix it to work with another holiday!

Sure, Dr. Seuss wrote for young students, but can older students analyze his writing and learn to mimic his style? THEN, they can produce Seuss-style poetry about any topic: Ancient China, the electromagnetic spectrum, Pride and Prejudice, and (yes) fraction division!

Imagine that Poetry and Prose meet for the first time at a party? What would they say to each other? How would they feel? In this video, I guide kids through the process of writing a script in which these two forms of writing interact.

Context clues lessons can be a disaster. Here, we expose students to a delightful classic packed with nonsense words (“Jabberwocky”) and ask them to decipher the meanings and parts of speech. Then, it’s only natural for students to write their own nonsense poems.

Ready to push kids beyond the boring, old ABAB rhyme scheme and into something a bit more complex?

Let’s write a summary. A very short summary. With VERY strict rules.