KRAGEN U
  • Mrs. Kragen's Class
  • Elementary Stuff
  • Middle School Stuff
    • History Day
  • Teacher Resources
  • Parent Resouces
  • Books
    • Creating America
    • Decade Days
    • Elementary English
    • Staying Sane in the Classroom >
      • part one sample page
      • part two sample page
      • part three sample page
    • novels
  • About

Poetry-palooza!

4/7/2014

0 Comments

 
All the fourth and fifth grade students at Suquamish are all mixed up for an hour each afternoon for the next couple of weeks for poetry sessions with seven different teachers. I taught my first session today with a handful of students from each of the fourth and fifth grade classrooms. My students scattered, four staying with me and the rest distributed out to the other teachers. 

Each teacher is presenting a lesson on a different kind of poetry. I am teaching rhyming poetry that creates an image, a mental picture. 

After students returned to the classroom, they had a few minutes to share their poems with each other for revising and editing suggestions. Then a few of them asked if they could read their poems out loud. We had a poem for two voices, a rap with beat box accompaniment, a couple of acrostics, and a couple of the rhyming poems from my group. 

At the end of the two weeks, I want the students to pick their THREE best poems to turn in for a grade. We looked at the rubric today. (I posted it on the Elementary Materials page.)
0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Picture
    Picture

    ​Diet Coke and Mentos

    Inspired silliness

    200 years of demographics

    Hydrophobic?

    Hypnotic art site

    Holland vs. the Netherlands

    Super scientist--and only 15 years old!

    Music in the woods

    How to use paper towels

    DIY synthesizer

    Lit posters

    Air cannon at the
    White House

    "Junior" HD project

    HD project: nationals

    HD project: award


    About Me

    read bio

    Greek alphabet song


    Archives

    March 2018
    January 2018
    December 2017
    November 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    October 2016
    September 2016
    August 2016
    April 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    January 2016
    December 2015
    November 2015
    October 2015
    September 2015
    June 2015
    May 2015
    April 2015
    March 2015
    February 2015
    January 2015
    December 2014
    November 2014
    October 2014
    September 2014
    August 2014
    May 2014
    April 2014
    March 2014
    January 2014
    December 2013
    November 2013
    October 2013
    September 2013
    June 2013
    May 2013
    March 2013
    February 2013
    January 2013
    December 2012
    November 2012
    September 2012
    July 2012
    May 2012
    April 2012
    March 2012
    February 2012
    January 2012
    December 2011
    November 2011
    October 2011
    September 2011
    June 2011
    May 2011
    March 2011
    January 2011
    December 2010
    November 2010
    September 2010
    June 2010


    Picture
    From Education Week--According to the latest research, the two best predictors of college success are not grades and intellectual ability. Number one is “conscientiousness” (dependability, perseverance, work ethic). Number two is “agreeableness” (interpersonal skills, getting along with other people, working well in groups).

    From what I’ve observed, I would say the same is true for life after college—jobs and careers, marriage and family life. Success comes more easily for people who are willing to work hard and who are able to cooperate with other people.
✕