You are cordially invited to peruse my students’ blogs and read their latest poetic creations in honor of National Poetry Month and our current thematic units. (Poems should be posted by Friday!)
- English 11: Click here to go to a list of this class’s blogs. Their latest poetic posting is a haiku commemorating the Holocaust and what they have learned thus far in our Courage to Be Responsible thematic unit. By the way, Holocaust Remembrance Day is today April 21. Tomorrow, this class will learn about fate of the butterflies each has created in memory of a child who was a part of the Terezin Concentration Camp…(will post tomorrow about this…with pictures of fluttering creations). Each student’s butterfly is based on a poem taken from I Never Saw Another Butterfly. These butterflies will now migrate to the Holocaust Museum in Houston, TX, where they are attempting to collect 1,500,000 butterfliesto commemorate the children killed in the Holocaust.
- Again…thanks to Dr. Pezz for inspiring this project through a blog post of his.
- Pre-AP English 10: Click here to access this class’s blogs. Today we discussed William Carlos Williams’ poem “The Little Red Wheelbarrow” and how this poem aptly fits into our Utopia vs. Dystopia unit. Then, to my delight, I assigned each to write a poem using this one as a model. (Please click here if interested in reading this poem and checking out my PowerPoint I used with this discussion.) Such a powerful poem!
Happy National Poetry Month!
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Thank you for mentioning my blog. This is one of the most powerful lessons I deliver during the school year. I hope it inspires others to teach students how the Holocaust personally affected many, many people during such a tragic time.
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This is a unit I will now always include…I think what I appreciate the most is the seriousness with which the students discuss this topic…they loose that entertain-me-so-I-will-learn expectation and dig for their own desire to learn.
By the way…My 10th grade class want to know why couldn’t they have created butterfly? Duh! Why not indeed! So next year even more butterflies will flutter!
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