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Using/Creating Digital Notebooks to engage students more.   Adding more poetry.

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Salsa for burritos.

Super dry:(

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Resources for daily poems, art,  or images... to provide a chance to discuss orally, or as a springboard for writing

Making time for more creative/free writing that is not graded - just letting kids express themselves through art, poetry, writing...

Discussion about how to make learning meaningful for all students - best use of time?

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Reviving some activities that were effective in the past--utilizing art/ visual, poetry, refreshing our independent reading program, See Think Wonder

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New ways to use poetry and have it relate to students experiences in learning. Remembering to scaffold and differentiate for all learners.

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-incorporate a poem that goes along with each unit
-Finding time to read books of choice that are untested
-More image analysis

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Use pictures, cartoons, paintings to create, analyze , and promote higher level conversations.

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Catered planning days.

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Visual Text
Resources, Time
Integrate poetry with our literature units
Personal  value poetry
Using poetry to find deeper meanings
Found Poem
New Textbooks!

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We discussed articles: (one copy given to each middle school)

“Reading Poetry in the Middle Grades”

“Ten Poems to Get you through science class this year”

“24 Must-Share poems for Middle and High School”

Poems that 7th grade already integrates:

--Gary Soto “Oranges” with “7th Grade”

--”What do we do with a variation?’ with “All Summer in a Day”

--”I am Poem”

--”The 8-line hate poem” and "I do not understand"

"The People Yes" by Sandberg with The Pearl
Context before reading

Smithsonian prints for every theme of "The Pearl"

"The Song of the Shirt" for A Christmas Carol

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Updating school library

Poetry suggestions added to CAGs for grade levels so that we do not all teach the same thing

Visual text incorporated in our units

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*Create ways to integrate poetry into our units
*Creating the belief that students are able to read poetry critically
*Reading the poetry "for them" (finding a personal meaning)
*Working with our departments to choose poetry by grade level, so as to avoid repetition
*Work with other grade level teachers to incorporate poetry/visuals into existing
units

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1. Poetry data
2. Poetry map/goals for 6th, 7th, 8th
3. Teaming
4. Common assessments
5. Humanities teams
6. New textbooks!

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How to incorporate poetry within units: Time, Resources, Training.

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We have a new perspective of how to implement close reading strategies using a wide variety of texts. We enjoyed the poem experience and are looking into ways to make alterations for other forms of poetic expression.

We would love to have a conversation about finding more time for instruction and hands-on student work time in both reading and writing.

As always - more books would be wonderful!

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It would be helpful to have funding to develop our classroom libraries with high interest novels.

Poetry suggestions specific to units of study per grade level.

Thought provoking images that correspond to unit specific content to inspire academic conversations.

Time to collaborate without being given specific things to do during release days.

Data on independent sustained reading and its benefits to prove to skeptics :