SHARON’S BLOG Let’s give your students some practice in writing poetry! With these guided prompts, your students do not have to “sit down and write a poem” but will surprise you by creating something fun and maybe even memorable. Here goes . . .
SHARON’S BLOGAll this month we’re celebrating National Poetry Month with famous poems worth knowing. Be sure to check out the many links at the end of this post for more poetry appreciation and practice! What is today’s poem? Joyce Kilmer’s “Trees.” Here are the first two lines: I think that I shall never see A poem…
SHARON’S BLOGHas something traumatic ever happened to you or your family? When Anne Bradstreet’s house burned down, she was heartbroken and wrote a poem about it. Read her poem below in which she pours out her grief, her pain upon losing everything, and what she learned from this terrible situation. What is unusual about this…
MIDDLE SCHOOL PROMPTS Allan G. Odell saved his company from ruin and made it quite popular. How did he do it? In the 1920s, a new shaving product was born called Burma-Shave. It was different from other shaving creams because, now, men didn’t have to lather up some cream or soap with a brush and apply…
