Middle School students are writing, creating, and studying poetry. They are working together to compile a list of poetic terms. Favorite poets have been identified and poems have been written in the style of famous poems. Content from their current science unit on cells and DNA is being used to black out words and create a type poetry called Blackout Poetry. The Epigram Wall is being added to daily. So Much Depends poems are being written and hung in the Orange Room. A Cloud Poem has been created by the entire class based on their summer reading book, Haroun and the Sea of Stories. During their study of the book, students wrote down one word from each chapter that caught their imagination. Those words were collected and collectively entered to form the poem. The Poetry unit will wrap up this week and lead into Short Stories.
