Welcome back Poetry!

Here at LA SCORES the summer sun has begun to set in the distance. The beach chairs are folded up, slip 'n slides put away, pools are still and in their place backpacks are dusted off, pencils sharpened and school bells are tuned (I doubt they do this but with the noise they make it doesn't seem like all that bad an idea...I digress). While kids don't quite look forward to the end of summer, students at Charnock, Palms and Braddock know that with it comes another year of LA SCORES. This fall season promises to be another great year and to get everyone ready I have included some ideas for poems below. We know our students' imaginations' are boundless and the topics below are just ideas of ways to help them tap this amazing resource.

Try writing these poems yourself before doing them with your students so you are more comfortable with the process and creative steps you can take to make them into something special. Enjoy!

Put the pen to the pad!

-Speaking from the point of view of something you lost or misplaced.

-In one loooooong sentence.

-Explaining what it's like to wake up in the morning, using sounds.

-Telling what a place will look like in a hundred years, or what it looked like a century ago.

-Saying exactly the same thing over and over in completely different ways.

-In collage, cutting words and phrases (and pictures, if you like) from the newspaper.

-Explaining why you don't have your homework (to your mother, to your teacher, to yourself)

-Without the letter e.

-About things that make you smile.

-About an imaginary city.