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November 29, 2022November 22, 2022Rebekah O'Dell

Place-Based Poetry Writing “Slow Unit”

Sometime during the first week of school this year, I taped this note to my desk: I wanted this year to be different. Not just different than the last few years of COVID School, but different than all the other years of my teaching that valued efficiency and productivity almost above all. (I love efficiency. […]

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April 26, 2020Rebekah O'Dell

A (Remote) Exploration of Poetry: Week #4

Dear poetry-loving English teacher friends, Last week, we paused. We paused because the kids needed a pause, and we needed a pause. In every way, I think all of us are trying to find that happy medium right now between all and nothing. But here we are again — week 4, the final week of our poetry […]

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April 12, 2020April 14, 2020Rebekah O'Dell

A (Remote) Exploration of Poetry: Week 3

Hello, friends, I hope you had a good week last week. I hope you’re feeling well, and that the people you love are feeling well, too. This week’s poetry work is focused on a strange pairing: imagery and concision. It seems like imagery is requisite for any kind of poetry study. However, I find that most […]

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April 5, 2020April 15, 2020Rebekah O'Dell

A (Remote) Exploration of Poetry: Week Two

Hello, friends, It’s another week of distance learning — and boy, are we all learning. To tell you the truth, I’m grateful for the distraction of the learning right now. Less time to surf the news. 🙂 This week, my students will be thinking about line and stanza breaks and how poets do this intentionally to […]

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