HELLO MY NAME IS - Day 1

 Happy National Poetry Month!

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Hello, Poetry Friends! This month I am sharing poems written in the voice of Little Red Riding Hood, and I invite you to join me in writing in the voice of someone else too. You might choose a fairy tale character or a book character or a person from history or anyone else real or imagined. These are your poems, so you make the decisions. Each April day, I will share my poem and a little bit about writing poetry. Mostly, we’ll just be writing in short lines with good words and not worrying about rhyming. Meaning first. Our focus this month will be adopting the perspective of another…for 30 days. I invite you to join me in this project! To do so, simply:

1. Choose a character from fiction or history or somewhere else in the world of space and time, and commit to writing a daily poem in this person's voice for the 30 days of April 2025. You might even choose an animal.

2. Write a new poem for each day of April. Feel free to print and find inspiration from this idea sheet that I will be writing from all month long.

Teachers, if you wish to share any HELLO MY NAME IS... subjects or poems, please email them to me at the contact button above. I would love to read what your students write and learn from how they approach their own projects.

And now for my first poem as Little Red Riding Hood.

Students - For most days of this month, I will be using the idea grid referred to above. Today I chose to write about why Little Red Riding Hood might choose to write at all. It is interesting to consider why any of us write, and so we'll let LRRH start her own poetry notebook with thinking about herself as a writer. Many of us are inspired by friends, and she is too.

Today's poem is written in nonrhyming couplets (two lines), and you'll notice that the second line of each is a little aside, a bit of extra information (in parentheses). I could delete these lines and the poem would still make sense, but LRRH has a few extra things to say.

Thank you for joining me on this first day of HELLO MY NAME IS...

To learn about more National Poetry Month projects and all kinds of April goodness, visit Jama's Alphabet Soup where Jama has generously gathered this coming month's Kidlitosphere poetry happenings. And if you are interested in learning about or writing from any of my previous 14 National Poetry Month projects, you can find them here. Happy National Poetry Month!

xo,

Amy

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