One of my favorite activities is to provide students with a rough outline modeled on a poem from this collection: My Mother's Hands. They use it to write their own personal homage to their mothers.To spur them on, I promise that if they complete the project in time for Mother's Day, their moms will cry. For 4th and 5th graders, it just doesn't get any better than that.
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You are incredible! (of course this exercise wouldn't have worked with me...my mother never STOPPED crying!)
Poison their souls with poetry. That's my strategy.
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