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April is National Poetry Month!

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March 31, 2020

Dear Students and Families,

April is  National Poetry Month. To learn more about this, visit the Academy of American Poets website. To celebrate, I will post a new poem on this blog daily from April 1st-April 30th. Students and families are invited to respond to the poem by replying to my post here or via email at my teacher account: sseyan@sjusd.org. This is not an assignment or an expectation-but I would be curious about your thoughts and interested in your responses!

To recognize and connect with my upper grade students in the after school writing group (College, Career, and Community Writer’s Program, or “C3WP”) who really enjoyed a writing task called “Would You Rather?”, I will be posting a “Would You Rather” prompt daily, as well. C3WP students, I can’t wait to read your Claims, Reasons, and Evidence in response to the “Would You Rather” prompts.

I look forward to connecting with you all virtually throughout the month!

Best,

Ms Seyan :o)

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2 responses to “April is National Poetry Month!”

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    […] •Last but not least, April is National Poetry Month, and we have been reading, listening to, writing on, and talking about poetry during our morning activities. I was gratified to see how many students checked out books of poetry at the school library last Friday! I have also deeply appreciated the quality of discussion the class has held. I enjoyed sharing one of my favorite poems ever, “When You Are Old” by William Butler Yeats. Afterwards, students surfaced ideas about the poem’s symbolism and commented on Yeats’ rhyming scheme.  If you’re curious as to what all the fuss is about, you may find the poem on the class website here: https://msseyan.com/2020/04/03/april-3-2020/. By the way: In April 2020 I created a month’s worth of poetry and activities on the website for distance learning students. Feel free to check out the day-by-day posts, starting here: https://msseyan.com/2020/03/31/april-is-national-poetry-month/ […]

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    […] Words for HomeMonday’s poem: Naomi Shihab Nye reads “One Boy Told Me”Ms. Seyan’s Poetry month posts from 2020 start here. (Click the arrows at the bottom right to advance to the next […]

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