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Roanoke Island Poems by 5th Graders

February 22, 2016 By Laura

And here is my final (I think) sharing of poems (tomorrow–nonfiction) from my visit at Wealthy Elementary. With 5th graders, I was doing poems about the Lost Colony of Roanoke. They had just finished studying it, and I had planned a few possible short poem forms to work with. I was thinking we might contrast life in England versus life on Roanoke, or a Native American narrator with a colonist narrator. But with the first class, I realized that we didn’t really have enough concrete details at hand to work on that. So we ended up working on a look at Roanoke from a more emotion-based perspective. With the second and third classes, we took the biopoem form and wrote poems with Roanoke Island itself as the topic. I really love how they connected with the events of hundreds of years ago.

In the padlet below are some snippets of poems the first class wrote, plus a group poem from each of the other two classes. I led them through the biopoem form, and they each wrote their own individual one. But after each line, I called on one or more volunteers to share lines, and I typed those into the padlet live to create a classroom poem. In the third class, which was the very last session of my entire week there, I passed around the microphone at the end and everyone who wanted to (most of them) read a couple lines from our group poem out loud. The class was silent, and it was really incredible. I wish I had video of that reading!

Since them, some of the students have gone back in and added their entire poems–hooray! I’m loving padlets for sharing student work publicly, and I plan to use them again in school visits!

Here is their work, which I think had us all thinking beyond just the facts of Roanoke and into the bigger ideas of peace, the human story, and more.

 

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