Are you kidding me? Nope! I’m telling you the truth! Today, we are going to Illuminate or Video Shelley’s Ozymandias As a way of helping the kids to familiarize themselves with and, eventually, memorize Shelley’s poem, “Ozymandias,” I am setting them to the task of creating an illuminated manuscript of the poem. An illuminated manuscript […]
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The Kids Write Night Poems
October 21, 2014
We did some free writing over the weekend, and I asked the kids to write “Night Poems.” Usually, I have little prompts for them, encouraging them to write in a certain style or to choose a specific image to concentrate on … i.e. “Make a List of Things You’d See in the Sky” or “Write from the […]