Today, one of the in-class assignments for my Yuri Junior High students was to write a poem. The poem was pre-formatted, a certain number of words per line, and a set number of lines, but the kids each made up their own poem. Some of them were pretty cute!!! The titles are my own invention.
Examples:
“Dolla Dolla Bill”
Money
Very Important
Buying, eating, living
I don’t have it
Sad.
“Treehugger”
For the world
Stop wars
Made peaceful countries
Don’t lose the forest
Absolutely.
“Don’t Stop”
Game
Push push
Push game over
Sad ritray push push
Achieve.
“Zen Master”
Zero
It’s beautiful
One and all
Zero is connecting always
All.
“Notetaking”*
Scrawl
Corner notebook
Born and vanish
Where is vanish scrawl?
Repeat.
*This poem was written by the girl who is my entrant for the upcoming Yurihonjo Speech Contest! She will be reciting a speech about Martin Luther King. She’s pretty awesome.
I hope you found these as charming as I did! My kids are really great, and I love reading the things they write to me. I’m planning to start a weekly optional “Letters with Miss Amanda” program so they can write to me if they feel like it, and I’ll return their letters with corrections and a reply written by me!
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