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poetry

“Tongues,” Latina Culture, and A Beautiful Connection Between Writers

December 10, 2015December 10, 2015 | Marisa Donnelly

“…but i will never let my tongues 

be replaced

changed

beaten

I have two tongues

each one

its own value

that only I can determine.”

-Angelica Mercado, “Tongues”

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Poetry Connections

November 13, 2015December 1, 2015 | Marisa Donnelly

Making text-to-self connections can be pretty simple when you’re working with a story, explanatory text, or short passage. Poetry, on the other hand, can be a challenge. That’s why I wanted to specifically work on this with my Book Club students. Continue reading →

Poetry Workshop

October 2, 2015October 19, 2015 | Marisa Donnelly

To connect on a deeper, more personal level to Tuesdays with Morrie, I had my students write poems about their ‘Morries’, the influential people in their lives. Continue reading →

Who’s My Morrie?

September 30, 2015December 3, 2015 | Marisa Donnelly

I wanted to switch up activities in my English 10 classes and instead of having them write another journal or essay-type of response, I decided to have them write two poems. These would be about people who influenced them positively–their ‘Morries’.
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Anne Bradstreet Poetry

September 25, 2015October 17, 2015 | Marisa Donnelly

In my American Seminar classes, the advanced 11th grade course on American literature, I did a mini-unit on Anne Bradstreet poetry. Continue reading →

April Fools! And Poetry

April 2, 2015September 16, 2015 | Marisa Donnelly

Our clinical session is about to begin, and I can hear our ten-year-old running up the library stairs two at a time. He’s holding a silver pan with a sheet of foil covering the top. Continue reading →

Writing From Image [Ekphrastic]

February 26, 2015September 16, 2015 | Marisa Donnelly

The assignment: to focus on a specific object or image, and then concentrate on how to write about this image/picture in a descriptive way.

This strategy gets the students to start thinking about figurative language, symbols, similes, connections, etc. Continue reading →

Class Poem

February 26, 2015September 16, 2015 | Marisa Donnelly

Poetry can be intimidating, so what better way to integrate it in a classroom than through a class poem? Continue reading →

Poetry Lesson Plan – Annotations

February 25, 2015September 16, 2015 | Marisa Donnelly

“A woman is not a potted plant.”

 plant

Wait, what? The look of confusion on my student’s faces was prominent as I stood in front of the class with Alice Walker’s poem, “A Woman is Not a Potted Plant” and asked them what they thought that title meant.

Poetry. It’s beautiful. It’s complicated. And students often struggle to grasp the deeper meaning. Continue reading →

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