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Hands on Stanzas, the educational outreach program of the Poetry Center of Chicago places professional, teaching Poets in residence at Chicago Public Schools across the city. Poets teach the reading, discussion, and writing of poetry to 3 classes over the course of 20 classroom visits, typically from October through April. Students improve their reading, writing, and public speaking skills, and participating teachers report improved motivation and academic confidence. You can contact Cassie Sparkman, Director of the Hands on Stanzas program, by phone: 312.629.1665 or by email: csparkman(at)poetrycenter.org for more information.

Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Fourth Grade Simile Poems

Similes
Joshua M.

You are as slow as a turtle.
Glass is hard like stone.
You look as ugly as a pig.
You are thin like a flag.


Crazy Things
Jordan A.

Grandpa is as slow as a turtle.
Anger is like the color red.
Seconds are as fast as a cheetah.
Pumpkins are like rainbows.
Fat cats are like pillows.
Worms are like candy.
The midnight moon is like a cookie.
Gym tee shirts are as yellow as the sun.
Girls are made like a volcano.
Boys are like monkeys.

What Happens When You’re in Love?
Jordan L.

Does your heart squish like Play-Doh
or like goop in your hands or do you feel
calm like when birds sing?
Do you get frightened like when you
hear thunder or like when you’re surrounded
by devils?
Do you heat up like lava?
Maybe you tell the truth?

or do you die?



Simile
Jackie C.

Is crying like the
color blue?
Are lights as bright
as the sun?
Is a pumpkin as round
as a ball?
Yellow is as bright as
a sun?
Clothes like
fur to us?
Is the radio as loud as
a fire bell?
Is black as
dark as a spooky night?


Red like Rage
Yaritza M.

Can red be like rage,
Or as blue as the sky?

Is emotion like time
Or as round as Earth.

Minds like yours
Measure knowledge.

Is a raisin as thick as bark,
Or like a small star?

Questions are asked,
Why not answered?

Imagine pieces of things
You discovered.


Things You Don’t See
Amara R.

Pools as blue as the sky.
Crows as black as darkness.
Water as clear as glass.
Thunder like banging things.
Horses like steam.
Lions like fiery light.

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