https://padlet.com/lauras_accounts/roanoke_poems The students have been learning about the "lost colony" of Roanoke, and we spent a bit of time writing short poems and also biopoems to capture some of the feelings and details that colonists or Native Americans might have felt or seen at the time. These are just brief excerpts of poems shared during our sessions, plus some of the students came back later and added their complete poems--bravo! en-us 2016-02-09 11:38:51 UTC 2016-02-22 12:59:12 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.storage.googleapis.com/portrait/notebook.jpg lauras_accounts https://padlet.com/lauras_accounts/roanoke_poems/wish/94170449 I'm usually brave, but right now I don't think I can behave]]> 2016-02-09 19:51:43 UTC https://padlet.com/lauras_accounts/roanoke_poems/wish/94170449 lauras_accounts https://padlet.com/lauras_accounts/roanoke_poems/wish/94170543 Rainy days bring warm smiles]]> 2016-02-09 19:52:03 UTC https://padlet.com/lauras_accounts/roanoke_poems/wish/94170543 lauras_accounts https://padlet.com/lauras_accounts/roanoke_poems/wish/94170802 I am from beach crumbling under my toes]]> 2016-02-09 19:52:49 UTC https://padlet.com/lauras_accounts/roanoke_poems/wish/94170802 lauras_accounts https://padlet.com/lauras_accounts/roanoke_poems/wish/94170853 I am from a land full of beautiful green grass and flowers]]> 2016-02-09 19:53:00 UTC https://padlet.com/lauras_accounts/roanoke_poems/wish/94170853 lauras_accounts https://padlet.com/lauras_accounts/roanoke_poems/wish/94171090 The beautiful blue skies leave smiles on faces]]> 2016-02-09 19:53:52 UTC https://padlet.com/lauras_accounts/roanoke_poems/wish/94171090 lauras_accounts https://padlet.com/lauras_accounts/roanoke_poems/wish/94171234 I left behind my basketball]]> 2016-02-09 19:54:27 UTC https://padlet.com/lauras_accounts/roanoke_poems/wish/94171234 lauras_accounts https://padlet.com/lauras_accounts/roanoke_poems/wish/94174130 Roanoke
hogging, logging, hunting]]> 2016-02-09 20:04:30 UTC https://padlet.com/lauras_accounts/roanoke_poems/wish/94174130 lauras_accounts https://padlet.com/lauras_accounts/roanoke_poems/wish/94174409 London -
fast, filthy]]> 2016-02-09 20:05:24 UTC https://padlet.com/lauras_accounts/roanoke_poems/wish/94174409 lauras_accounts https://padlet.com/lauras_accounts/roanoke_poems/wish/94174522 Roanoke - 
cold, frozen, windy]]> 2016-02-09 20:05:44 UTC https://padlet.com/lauras_accounts/roanoke_poems/wish/94174522 lauras_accounts https://padlet.com/lauras_accounts/roanoke_poems/wish/94174635 England - 
pouring, playing, growing]]> 2016-02-09 20:06:01 UTC https://padlet.com/lauras_accounts/roanoke_poems/wish/94174635 lauras_accounts https://padlet.com/lauras_accounts/roanoke_poems/wish/94174816 Roanoke -
lonely, frightened, cold]]> 2016-02-09 20:06:27 UTC https://padlet.com/lauras_accounts/roanoke_poems/wish/94174816 lauras_accounts https://padlet.com/lauras_accounts/roanoke_poems/wish/94174918 I am from dark, wet alleys]]> 2016-02-09 20:06:43 UTC https://padlet.com/lauras_accounts/roanoke_poems/wish/94174918 lauras_accounts https://padlet.com/lauras_accounts/roanoke_poems/wish/94175054 Roanoke -
vast, new]]> 2016-02-09 20:07:06 UTC https://padlet.com/lauras_accounts/roanoke_poems/wish/94175054 lauras_accounts https://padlet.com/lauras_accounts/roanoke_poems/wish/94175248 England - 
expanding, fighting, playing]]> 2016-02-09 20:07:42 UTC https://padlet.com/lauras_accounts/roanoke_poems/wish/94175248 lauras_accounts https://padlet.com/lauras_accounts/roanoke_poems/wish/94175425 Roanoke -
working, hunting, surviving]]> 2016-02-09 20:08:21 UTC https://padlet.com/lauras_accounts/roanoke_poems/wish/94175425 lauras_accounts https://padlet.com/lauras_accounts/roanoke_poems/wish/94175885
I feel big and powerful
I feel confident
I have other people on board

I feel distressed
Everybody's coming and starting to attack other people
and not being happy with each other

I feel lonely
Nobody is building on me
I feel unpopular

I feel confused
New people coming
People coming and going

I am Roanoke
What is happening?

--by Mrs. Miller's 5th-grade class]]> 2016-02-09 20:09:55 UTC https://padlet.com/lauras_accounts/roanoke_poems/wish/94175885 lauras_accounts https://padlet.com/lauras_accounts/roanoke_poems/wish/94445173 Roanoke
wild, abandoned, smoky, strong
son of nature and civilization
lover of peace and nature and living things

who feels happy when hearing the roaring waves,
old after so, so many years, and
unhappy about missing colonists and dying people

who gives love and happiness,
wondering,
and shelter to the natives

who fears people dying or getting hurt,
being cut down by the new people,
and new arrivers and intruders

who would like to see love and peace,
the forest unharmed, 
the sun, world, and people happy

who lives above the ocean
who provides fire and shelter
who hates the conflict and fighting
who wants to be free
who needs more happy, worry-free people
who is an island of mystery
who is the boss of the sea
whose green ivy creeps up history
who feels important to give shelter
who is the most colorful it can be
who wishes to be loved and appreciated
who is a lost colony
who wonders where people went

Island]]> 2016-02-10 19:50:07 UTC https://padlet.com/lauras_accounts/roanoke_poems/wish/94445173 https://padlet.com/lauras_accounts/roanoke_poems/wish/94630920 Roanoke
Silent, unfriendly, broken
Son of dark abandoned walls
Lover of natives, darkness, smoke
He feels mad brown arrows sink into his ground
Who gives new ground to settle
Who fears getting cut down by the new people
Who likes to see peace of natives
Who lives on the water
Whos green ivy creeps up history
Island]]> 2016-02-11 15:51:06 UTC https://padlet.com/lauras_accounts/roanoke_poems/wish/94630920 https://padlet.com/lauras_accounts/roanoke_poems/wish/94631199
Roanoke-
rough, scary, smooth and abandoned
daughter of grass and animals
lover of peace, nature, living things
who feels old after so many years
who gives nature, land and shelter
who fears war, people dyeing and natural disasters
who would like to see another island  
who lives near the Croatian island
who provides fire and shelter
Island]]> 2016-02-11 15:51:46 UTC https://padlet.com/lauras_accounts/roanoke_poems/wish/94631199 https://padlet.com/lauras_accounts/roanoke_poems/wish/94631448 Roanoke
Green, abandoned, hustling, wild
Son of Nature and Mystery
Lover of Indians and fir trees

Who feels love to life
Who gives wonder, wondering, and wood

Who fears hunger and Spaniards
Who would like to see the world

Who lives in hope of peace
Who loves his residents

Island]]> 2016-02-11 15:52:16 UTC https://padlet.com/lauras_accounts/roanoke_poems/wish/94631448 https://padlet.com/lauras_accounts/roanoke_poems/wish/94632105 I am Roanoke
I am the island were so much went on
I am home to the natives
I am home of fighting
I am home of the animals
I am the forests and beaches
I am nature
I am the sand waves
I am Roanoke

]]> 2016-02-11 15:53:39 UTC https://padlet.com/lauras_accounts/roanoke_poems/wish/94632105 https://padlet.com/lauras_accounts/roanoke_poems/wish/94633055 Roanoke-
Beautiful, tropical, loud, colorful
Daughter of nature and beauty
Lover of kindness and living things
Who feels sad when war starts
Who give shelter and resources
Who fears of it's destruction
Who would like to see peace
Who lives in the arms of the ocean
Who wishes to be loved and appreciated 
Island]]> 2016-02-11 15:55:34 UTC https://padlet.com/lauras_accounts/roanoke_poems/wish/94633055 https://padlet.com/lauras_accounts/roanoke_poems/wish/94633569 Roanoke,abandon strong smokey wild,plants and animals,peace and nattier,sad when there is war, who gives shelters,who fears of destruction,who hopes for peace,who sites in the ocean,who provides homes for people and animals,island.]]> 2016-02-11 15:56:54 UTC https://padlet.com/lauras_accounts/roanoke_poems/wish/94633569 https://padlet.com/lauras_accounts/roanoke_poems/wish/94634761 Roanoke
Wild, untamed, abandoned, lost
Daughter of mystery and conflict
Lover of peace and life
Who feels stressed at all the death
Who gives food and warmth
Who fears that she will die
Like the others that came before
Who would like to see love
Blossom in the abandoned fort
Who lives in the midst of hatred
Who wishes for people to live
Island]]> 2016-02-11 16:00:04 UTC https://padlet.com/lauras_accounts/roanoke_poems/wish/94634761 https://padlet.com/lauras_accounts/roanoke_poems/wish/94634852 Roanoke, warm, cold, hot, freezing, birds chirping everywhere, who likes living things and a cool wind brushing by, Roanoke island    ]]> 2016-02-11 16:00:22 UTC https://padlet.com/lauras_accounts/roanoke_poems/wish/94634852 https://padlet.com/lauras_accounts/roanoke_poems/wish/94635550 Roanoke-
worm, joy, color, wild side
son of the sun
lover of life and the waves
who fells alone when people go
who gives love and happiness 
who fears being unloved 
who would love to see the world 
who lives in the past
who wants to be free
Roanoke still a mystery 


]]> 2016-02-11 16:02:15 UTC https://padlet.com/lauras_accounts/roanoke_poems/wish/94635550 https://padlet.com/lauras_accounts/roanoke_poems/wish/94635622
Island

I wait patiently while the wars go by
I hope some day peace will come
I watch as good people die 
I wish that was used for good 
I give resources and life
I feel lonely and misused
I hope they all see what i'm here for
Happiness, peace and love.

Hope]]> 2016-02-11 16:02:26 UTC https://padlet.com/lauras_accounts/roanoke_poems/wish/94635622 https://padlet.com/lauras_accounts/roanoke_poems/wish/94636347 Roanoke

Peaceful, sunny, warm, friendly

Daughter of leader and chief of happiness and grief

Lover of Nature's chirps, sailors qualities, civilized lovers

Who feels vibrations of pitter-pattering running feet, sad, excited

Who gives hope, the surface, air space

Who fears the thought of ignorance, abandonedness, dis-qualified

Who would like to see the sun, world, and people happy

Who lives amongst the trees 

Chief and leader of the past-organizer with lots of qualities

Island]]> 2016-02-11 16:04:38 UTC https://padlet.com/lauras_accounts/roanoke_poems/wish/94636347 https://padlet.com/lauras_accounts/roanoke_poems/wish/94639121 Roanoke
Open to the world
Abandoned
Never to be lived on again
Ocean breeze
Keep hoping
Eventually peace will come]]> 2016-02-11 16:12:50 UTC https://padlet.com/lauras_accounts/roanoke_poems/wish/94639121 https://padlet.com/lauras_accounts/roanoke_poems/wish/94639222 she the girl 
walks to the the old door 
to see smoke and fire 
nothing and no one home 
just felling alone
I am mostly brave
but still afraid  
when your all alone 
but you need to know 

]]> 2016-02-11 16:13:06 UTC https://padlet.com/lauras_accounts/roanoke_poems/wish/94639222 https://padlet.com/lauras_accounts/roanoke_poems/wish/94639247 Roanoke
Mysterious,strange,Abandoned
Son of Weird and unexplained
lover of nature and mystery

who feels happy to hear the trees whistling
Who gives confusion and questioning 
Who fears the worst for the missing
Who to see the forest unharmed
Whos mystery haunts history

]]> 2016-02-11 16:13:11 UTC https://padlet.com/lauras_accounts/roanoke_poems/wish/94639247 https://padlet.com/lauras_accounts/roanoke_poems/wish/94640296 Red beutiful flowers
Old artifacts
A]]> 2016-02-11 16:16:11 UTC https://padlet.com/lauras_accounts/roanoke_poems/wish/94640296 lauras_accounts https://padlet.com/lauras_accounts/roanoke_poems/wish/94718010 Roanoke

silent, deserted, dangerous, lonely
son of forest and adventures
daughter of ocean and nature

lover of nature's family,
silence and peace,
and the sound of waves

who feels lonely when nobody's there,
happy when the sun goes up,
and like a rag being constantly used

who gives shelter,
food to everybody on the island,
and misery

who fears that one day it will be gone,
war, and
death and destruction

who would like to see love,
more land,
and a smile of hope

who lives in a pool of loneliness
who lives next to a bright blue ocean
who lives somewhere lonely and far, far away

who drinks gallons of salty water
who is pain and mistakes
who still is trying to be uncovered in the mysterious place of Roanoke
who wants a friend of courage, but thinks, "Nope!"
who is happy of who it is
who has always cared for its colonists
who wishes he could dump his enemies off the island
who is a forgotten piece of nature
who is an unknown mystery
and now stays in history
who may never be uncovered

Island]]> 2016-02-11 19:47:12 UTC https://padlet.com/lauras_accounts/roanoke_poems/wish/94718010 lauras_accounts https://padlet.com/lauras_accounts/roanoke_poems/wish/94969919 Dear 5th Graders,
   Thank you for coming in and adding your complete poems. There are some wonderful details in here and also powerful emotions. Your poems here really touched me--thanks for the gift of sharing your words!
   Cheers,
   Laura]]> 2016-02-13 13:34:10 UTC https://padlet.com/lauras_accounts/roanoke_poems/wish/94969919 https://padlet.com/lauras_accounts/roanoke_poems/wish/95292378 Roanoke the Mystery From History]]> 2016-02-16 15:01:49 UTC https://padlet.com/lauras_accounts/roanoke_poems/wish/95292378