The 8th graders read "We Real Cool" by Gwendolyn Brooks and then wrote poems about cliques or groups at their school.
We real cool
Melissa S.
We just stand
never say a word
give you chance
break little hearts
NEVER cool, NEVER noticed
in shadows, unnoticed, unseen
Alyssa C.
Their eyes drooping
down to their knees
Hair all messed up
just woke up!
walking
with a wobble
Stephanie Y.
They act tough to
be strong.
They are soft to
get what they want.
They may talk the talk to
be able to walk the walk.
They lie to get to the top to
avoid being shot down, literally.
Brittany C.
Have you seen them,
the baggy shorts and long
shirts? Jumping up and down; doing
lay ups and 3 points; grabbing the
ball and rebounding it back up?
This is the group.
Saturday, March 22, 2008
Odes to Good Things
We read Pablo Neruda's "Ode to the Watermelon" and then students wrote odes to some of their favorite things.
Third grade
Michelle P.
Ode to rootbeer ice cream
It's a world of brown and
white with snow. You are like a
mountain of root beer ice cream.
We eat you so fast
we get brain freeze. You are the
fountain that melts in my
mouth. You are cream.
Anthony A.
Ode to Wii
Oh Wii your white box
is like the snow.
Oh Wii you're the king of all
systems your controller
is like a light saber
it is cool when I
play Mario galaxy.
Alberto O.
Ode to Cable Comcast
Oh! Comcast I love you
when I get home the first thing
I do is go home and lay down
and watch TV when I watch you
my heart explodes. I wish
I can take you everywhere I
go. If I could it would be a
dream come true.
5th Grade
Daniel R.
Ode to PS2
It's the mind to electronics.
It’s the game to my controller.
You are the thing that keeps me
happy, and unbored. You take me away
from trouble.
A real life game can be real in my room,
and makes me a cop, or robber, or musician.
Vanessa R.
Ode to the Apple
It's a fruit that tastes
so good and juicy.
Your juiciness makes me
want to sit
under a shady tree
and eat you.
I like you red
skin, it reminds me
of fire. When I
bite into you I
feel as it I
were floating in
the sky.
I like that yellow
crunchiness inside you.
When I taste
apple pie
I will
remember you.
Romario D.
Ode to cheeseburger
Oh cheeseburger
you are so special
made. Not a bite of
anything on you you're
like a brand new
car without a scratch
when I look at you
I just want to eat
you slowly of greasy
and cheesy and soft
bread. When I eat
you I wish I hadn't
eaten you cheeseburger
so I could eat you again.
Oh Cheeseburger
you are a work of
art.
Third grade
Michelle P.
Ode to rootbeer ice cream
It's a world of brown and
white with snow. You are like a
mountain of root beer ice cream.
We eat you so fast
we get brain freeze. You are the
fountain that melts in my
mouth. You are cream.
Anthony A.
Ode to Wii
Oh Wii your white box
is like the snow.
Oh Wii you're the king of all
systems your controller
is like a light saber
it is cool when I
play Mario galaxy.
Alberto O.
Ode to Cable Comcast
Oh! Comcast I love you
when I get home the first thing
I do is go home and lay down
and watch TV when I watch you
my heart explodes. I wish
I can take you everywhere I
go. If I could it would be a
dream come true.
5th Grade
Daniel R.
Ode to PS2
It's the mind to electronics.
It’s the game to my controller.
You are the thing that keeps me
happy, and unbored. You take me away
from trouble.
A real life game can be real in my room,
and makes me a cop, or robber, or musician.
Vanessa R.
Ode to the Apple
It's a fruit that tastes
so good and juicy.
Your juiciness makes me
want to sit
under a shady tree
and eat you.
I like you red
skin, it reminds me
of fire. When I
bite into you I
feel as it I
were floating in
the sky.
I like that yellow
crunchiness inside you.
When I taste
apple pie
I will
remember you.
Romario D.
Ode to cheeseburger
Oh cheeseburger
you are so special
made. Not a bite of
anything on you you're
like a brand new
car without a scratch
when I look at you
I just want to eat
you slowly of greasy
and cheesy and soft
bread. When I eat
you I wish I hadn't
eaten you cheeseburger
so I could eat you again.
Oh Cheeseburger
you are a work of
art.
Finding Monsters
We read Charles Simic's "The Fork", which imagines the very ordinary utensil as a very extraordinary creature. Then students looked around their classrooms to see what sorts of monsters they could find in ordinary objects.
3rd Grade
Esperanza S.
The Scary Chair
The scary chair it has
a big mouth and skinny
legs. It wants to eat you.
Don't sit cause it will
get you and grow seat
belts and tie you. It will
tie your legs too and
hands too. And you
will disappear.
Antonio R.
The Computer
It has a screen and 5
tongues made out of buttons
It has 1 eye if you dare
walk by it… it will snap
right at you with sharp
knifes with poison in
them, with fire and
spiders.
Berenice M.
Ceiling
It has twelve big white eyes with
no pupils. Scary eyes
sees you where ever you go
there everywhere and watches you.
It takes you away. It has two extra ears
to hear you. If you have a plan it
knows, it you hang stuff on it it gets
angry and rips it after that it eats
you up in one bite.
5th grade
Shannon A.
The bean bag
The bean bag is a boneless
blindless monster. He eats people by
rolling on the floor and attacks
He's a big head that looks like a
jellyfish with a big mouth.
It looks like it crept from
the basement to come alive
and eat people. When it's big and blobby
then when it does not eat it dies.
But still comes back to live and
starts eating people again.
Frank C.
The Desk
It has four long bony
legs that are freezing cold
and no eyes and a big mouth
with bugs inside it and the
head rectangle head with its veins
showing and it's pale and cold
and it gets books and papers
with no hands.
Michael D.
Laptop
It has one eye that lights up.
It sucks you up when it gets mad.
It has no feet.
It is really large
and really flat.
The wires are its veins.
The keyboard is its body it has people inside of it in each letter.
The more it sucks you up the more bigger it gets.
3rd Grade
Esperanza S.
The Scary Chair
The scary chair it has
a big mouth and skinny
legs. It wants to eat you.
Don't sit cause it will
get you and grow seat
belts and tie you. It will
tie your legs too and
hands too. And you
will disappear.
Antonio R.
The Computer
It has a screen and 5
tongues made out of buttons
It has 1 eye if you dare
walk by it… it will snap
right at you with sharp
knifes with poison in
them, with fire and
spiders.
Berenice M.
Ceiling
It has twelve big white eyes with
no pupils. Scary eyes
sees you where ever you go
there everywhere and watches you.
It takes you away. It has two extra ears
to hear you. If you have a plan it
knows, it you hang stuff on it it gets
angry and rips it after that it eats
you up in one bite.
5th grade
Shannon A.
The bean bag
The bean bag is a boneless
blindless monster. He eats people by
rolling on the floor and attacks
He's a big head that looks like a
jellyfish with a big mouth.
It looks like it crept from
the basement to come alive
and eat people. When it's big and blobby
then when it does not eat it dies.
But still comes back to live and
starts eating people again.
Frank C.
The Desk
It has four long bony
legs that are freezing cold
and no eyes and a big mouth
with bugs inside it and the
head rectangle head with its veins
showing and it's pale and cold
and it gets books and papers
with no hands.
Michael D.
Laptop
It has one eye that lights up.
It sucks you up when it gets mad.
It has no feet.
It is really large
and really flat.
The wires are its veins.
The keyboard is its body it has people inside of it in each letter.
The more it sucks you up the more bigger it gets.
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