Student Poetry inspired by My Papi Has a Motorcycle by Isabel Quintero, Illustrated by Zeke Peña
Finally, students wrote their own poems. Each lesson focusing on a different aspect of poetry:
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Students were inspired by this excerpt from "My Papi has a motorcycle" by Isabel Quintero
The shiny blue metal of the motorcycle glows in the sun. The sun, the sun, the bright orange sun is on its way down, turning our sky blue and purple and gold. We become a spectacular celestial thing soaring on asphalt. A comet. The sawdust falling from Papi’s hair and clothes becomes a tail Following us |
Here is the student poetry! They even chose their own pen names.
Finally, the performance!
We rehearsed before performing out poetry for Ms. Russo!