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 poem is a triolet, a form I really like writing in. oday I wrote this one by looking at another triolet I wrote a while ago and copied the form just from looking at the lines. What do you notice about this form just by comparing the two triolets below?
Well, we are winding up the last days of National Poetry Month, and to give myself more choices, I added a few possibilites for poem topics. Feel free to add these to your grid and mind and heart if you wish:
- A Big Feeling
- A Wish
- A Word I Like
- A Wonder
- Just a Thought
- Wild Card!/Anything!/Blank Card of Choice
Here you can see where I have been keeping track of this month's poems. This organizational sheet has been helping me all month, and it is also giving me some ideas about planning future projects. It's messy, just like I am.
Amy LV's National Poetry Month Planning Sheet
Photo by Amy LV
Today I am traveling for eight days of school visits away from home. Thank you in advance to the teachers, students, parents, and administrators at Seely Place Elementary and Greenville Elementary in Scarsdale, NY and those of GW Miller Elementary in Nanuet, NY. I so look forward to my time with your writers.
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,
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