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.
LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD'S POEMS SO FAR
And now for today!
Students - Today's little verse can be read as a little verse...or you can sing it to the tune of "The Itsy Bitsy Spider." The syllables are not a perfect match, but it works for me today.
Even though this verse is short, I still fiddled around a lot with the words. In line 4, I had originally written brings instead of calls. In line 5, I had originally written adds her instead of mixes. And in line 7, I had originally written when cinnamon fills the air instead of when cinnamon rides the sky. Sometimes changing one or two words can really lift a poem.
If you want to write with a song meter, it helps to count the syllables in each line and write them down the page. For example, "The Itsy Bitsy Spider" goes like this:
The Itsy Bitsy Spider
7
6
4
6
4
6
8
6
Feel free to count the syllables in my verse today to find where they don't match. I can still sing it along, because so much of singing is the holding of notes. :)
Thank you for joining me on this fifteenth day of HELLO MY NAME IS... We are halfway through the month of Lou poems.
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!
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