Showing posts with label #npm. Show all posts
Showing posts with label #npm. Show all posts

Friday, April 30, 2021

National Poetry Month: #haikudiary.30


one month, thirty days
seventeen syllable rut
ready for a change


©Mary Lee Hahn, 2021



Happy end of National Poetry Month! Matt has this week's Poetry Friday roundup at Radio, Rhythm & Rhyme.





 

Thursday, April 29, 2021

National Poetry Month: #haikudiary.29


antiracism
it's urgent, not optional
sacrifice comfort


©Mary Lee Hahn, 2021

Found haiku while listening to Dr. Sonja Cherry-Paul speak at the NCTE member gathering.





 

Wednesday, April 28, 2021

National Poetry Month: #haikudiary.28


playground drama
duck nest under the slide
brave mama


©Mary Lee Hahn, 2021

 

Tuesday, April 27, 2021

National Poetry Month: #haikudiary.27


summer in a jar
basil, parmesan, garlic
tastebud time travel


©Mary Lee Hahn, 2021



 

Monday, April 26, 2021

National Poetry Month: #haikudiary.26


just strolling along
big leather feet flap flapping
parking lot goose


©Mary Lee Hahn



 

Sunday, April 25, 2021

National Poetry Month: #haikudiary.25


we turned a corner
(the redbuds are leafing out)
over there -- summer


©Mary Lee Hahn, 2021

 

Saturday, April 24, 2021

National Poetry Month: #haikudiary.24


one slip
I guess the knife is still sharp
blood mixes with onions


©Mary Lee Hahn, 2021




 

Thursday, April 22, 2021

National Poetry Month: #haikudiary.23 and Poetry Friday


car changes color
maroon with a glaze of gold
oak pollen season


©Mary Lee Hahn, 2021


Catherine has this week's Poetry Friday Roundup at Reading to the Core.

 

National Poetry Month: #haikudiary.22

 

nature teaches us
expect the unexpected
snow in late April


©Mary Lee Hahn, 2021



Wednesday, April 21, 2021

National Poetry Month: #haikudiary.21


when will justice be
expected immutable
like rock not spring snow


©Mary Lee Hahn, 2021

 

Tuesday, April 20, 2021

National Poetry Month: #haikudiary.20


How do you pack a
decades-long friendship into
a three-line haiku?

Committees, roadtrips,
Twitter, blog, NCTE,
breakfast at NorthStar.

Happy Birthday, Friend!
You continue to inspire
and to make us laugh.


©Mary Lee Hahn, 2021

 

Monday, April 19, 2021

Sunday, April 18, 2021

National Poetry Month: #haikudiary.18


suddenly there's shade
branches with buds subitize
shadows gain substance

©Mary Lee Hahn, 2021





 

Saturday, April 17, 2021

National Poetry Month: #haikudiary.17


old trees make new leaves
bark is rough but roots are strong
spring becomes summer


©Mary Lee Hahn, 2021

 

Thursday, April 15, 2021

Poetry Friday -- Three for Earth Day

 

When will we decide
to stop squandering our home?
We act like there's time.


©Mary Lee Hahn, 2021





Nowhere Else to Go
by Linda Sue Park


Go read Linda Sue Park's poem. I'll wait.             There. You understand now why I couldn't excerpt it, right? You need to read all the way to that powerful last line, which sends you back to the title, and then down through the poem again. 

This was our Weekly Poem for this past week. Our routine goes like this: on the first day, I just read the poem.  My students follow along on the share screen, but we don't talk about the poem. Just read it and let it start soaking in. Then, each day after that, we dig deeper into what we notice about the words, the shape, the craft. Finally, towards the end of the week, we get to possible meanings.  It took most of the week, but they totally got this one. Got what Linda Sue Park was doing with the clues at the beginning and that last line that sends you back to the title.





The Last Straw: Kids vs. Plastics
by Susan Hood
Illustrated by Christiane Engel
HarperCollins, 2021

An introduction by Milo Cress, founder of BeStrawFree.org
17 poems
Facts on every page
Fabulous illustrations and quotes
Scientists and children from around the world working on the problem of plastic
AND
An author's note
A timeline
"Sources and More" to go with every poem/topic (great websites!!)
AND
Poetry notes about the forms used in each of the poems
PLUS
"For Further Reading"


Jama has this week's Poetry Friday Roundup at Jama's Alphabet Soup



National Poetry Month: #haikudiary.15


ask those hard questions
spotlight inequalities
then make good trouble


©Mary Lee Hahn, 2021







 

Wednesday, April 14, 2021

National Poetry Month: #haikudiary.14

 

white privilege abounds
black lives matter on yard signs
and I write haiku


©Mary Lee Hahn, 2021



Tuesday, April 13, 2021

National Poetry Month: #haikudiary.13

 

we teach the wrong things:
task completion, not passion
test taking, not joy


©Mary Lee Hahn, 2021



We've got seven weeks left, and I'm focusing as much as possible on passion and joy. Our newest fun: about 1/4 of the class is learning a new language using the DuoLingo app. 

Sunday, April 11, 2021

National Poetry Month: #haikudiary.11

 

after the cold snap
glorious magnolias
wear brown in mourning


©Mary Lee Hahn, 2021


Saturday, April 10, 2021

National Poetry Month: #haikudiary.10

 

illumination
sun shines through dirty windows
with no prejudice

©Mary Lee Hahn, 2021