Smiling and Flying
by Amy LV
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Students - Apostrophes are often overused, placed next to every final 's'. And today, I decided to let the apostrophe speak for itself (if you keep reading, you'll see that I've done this before) to straighten us out. It's interesting to write mask poems, poems in the voices of animals or objects or even punctuation marks. I like to imagine this tiny apostrophe shaking her finger and her head, reminding us of how to place her properly in a patch of letters.
Poems can teach us things and still make us smile a little. What might you teach in a bit of a funny way? What do you know about that could speak in its own voice, possibly even correcting us humans?
Today's poem is written in quatrains with lines 2 and 4 in each stanza rhyming. Soon I will write a poem with lines 1 and 3 rhyming as well.
Poems can teach us things and still make us smile a little. What might you teach in a bit of a funny way? What do you know about that could speak in its own voice, possibly even correcting us humans?
Today's poem is written in quatrains with lines 2 and 4 in each stanza rhyming. Soon I will write a poem with lines 1 and 3 rhyming as well.
Teachers - If you are looking for great resources to help you teach about punctuation and editing, allow me to share two of my favorite books by Jeff Anderson: EVERYDAY EDITING and MECHANICALLY INCLINED. These books have taught me so much, about usage and also about ways to make such instruction interesting and inquiry based.
To read more poems about punctuation here at The Poem Farm, visit Inky Flyers, : (Colon Poem), ' (Another Apostrophe Poem).
This week I am particularly grateful to Catherine Johnson for her charming and tons-of-fun painting of my dogs Sage and Cali...with me! Catherine is painting a series of portraits of writers and dogs, so far including Margarita Engle, Charles Ghigna, and me. I love her warm and expressive style, and Sage and Cali were very happy too...
Amy, Sage (R), and Cali (L)
Portrait by Catherine Johnson
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