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As you view the video, record the sights, sounds, feelings, and thoughts that run through your mind. After viewing, use your notes to write a "List Poem." (See below.)
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About this video clip: In December, Mary Hosier and I traveled to Mexico. For most of two days, we simply sat on the sanctuary floor beneath the butterflies. If ever there were a time to be a poet! Poetry seemed the only way to respond to the beauty and magnificence before us. We pulled out our notebooks and recorded the thoughts that darted through our minds, like the butterflies above us. Although it inevitably falls short, we tried to capture the experience in video to share with you.
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Elizabeth
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Mary
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The
end of a great day! |
Try This! Writer's Workshop
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Mary's
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Allison Demming, great granddaughter of Nathanial Hawthorn, contributed
this poem during her visit to the sanctuaries with Dr. Calvert.
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Stained-glass window wings
Billowing, blowing branches
Butterfly beehive boughs
Hushed, hurrying, struggling
Every one alive
Students in the class could build a list of words together. This will give them a larger pool to draw from, and might inspire. A List Poem frees the writer because it has so few restrictions. Give it a try!
Or consider a Haiku. (Japanese poem of 17 syllables arranged in 3 lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables.) Example of a Haiku:
tiny muscles stretch
warming, waiting, sensing all
soon to migrate back
Or, as a modification of AlphaAntics, use the collected words to write a poem in which the first word in each line begins with one letter from the word “Monarch.”
National Science Education Standards
Abilities
Necessary to Do Inquiry
Ask a question about objects, organisms, events. (K-4)
