Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Water - Writing about Contrasts


Watery World
by Georgia LV

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Photo by Amy LV


Students - Sometimes it is fun to trace back the family tree of a piece of writing - where did it come from? Well, this one came from a few places. One place it came from is a poem that I've read a few times this week, The Place I Want to Get Back To by Mary Oliver. The last few lines read -

If you want to talk about this
  come to visit. I live in the house
    near the corner, which I have named
      Gratitude.


Mary Oliver's poem got me thinking about what I'm grateful for.

Then, I came across the drawing above that my daughter Georgia drew.

I did some reading about informational texts, particularly compare and contrast.

I also remembered this book -


And all of this led to to today's poem!

Try it - find a piece of writing you've done (or write a new one) and then trace it back.  Find its relatives and see where it came from in your attic-mind.

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2 comments:

  1. My students studied water & the issues all year one year for our class unit study; I would have loved to have this then. It takes the circumstances right down to the core. (Find/Read A Long Walk To Water by LInda Sue Park). Thanks, Amy! Wonderful!

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  2. Glad you stopped by my blog. I'm going to lurk around. I've been told to now write poetry (well rhyme), but oh... I love to read it.

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