i taught my students how to write haikus this week:
my dog is big and
my chewawa [sic] is smart cool
it can dance.
-Oscar
dogs elephant cats
i have a german shepard
i like all my dogs.
-Francisco
if Mississippi
gave Missuri [sic] a New Jersey
what did Delaware?
-Aaron
Ms. Aguayo and
Ms. Lee are friends and they both
nice and cool both teach
-Victor
sweet vanilla ice cream is good.
food: chocolate chip cookie.
hungry, eat candy.
-Johnny
do the test do
your best or guest [sic]
on the lousey [sic] test
-Diamond
asteroid hit earth
a temperture [sic] was rising
the ground was glowing.
-Francisco
army bombs people
people shop at a walmart
i go to the beach.
-Jose
i bet you didn't know i taught beatnik poets, did you?
-stephan!e
i like jose's a lot. pretty global thinking in three lines.
ReplyDeleteyea, i was impressed too by the insights he captured in 17 syllables.
ReplyDeletei want to encourage him to write more, because every time i press him to put his thoughts to paper, amazing things come out. he wrote an essay about the community and his aspiration to become a policeman, and i was blown away by the insights into violence he was able to express.