Remember, we are moving to 5:30 as a start time!
Today we were Introduced to Georg Ella Lyon's "Where I'm From." She has a webpage at http://www.georgeellalyon.com/where.html that includes the poem written out, a sound file of her reading the poem, a video with her reading the poem, information about using the lists as writing prompts, and how others have used the poem as a jumping off spot for writing.
Even though I set us up to pick any time from our lives, we all came up with substantial lists mostly about our childhood using the following prompts. The more I think about it, focusing on our childhood is key to this model. In general, childhood is where we are from.
The next time we meet, we will have writing time to "extend, rearrange, edit," and revise our Where I'm From lists into poems. We will also be exposed to some revision strategies so we can choose at least one of our poems to revise and publish.
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