For the past two weeks, we have been studying imagery.  Last week, we studied sea themed poetry by Langston Hughes.  This week, we focused on creating imagery in our own poems.  Langston Hughes served as our inspiration.  Today, students published their poems.

What a wonderful collection of poems we created!  Students really channeled their inner Langston.  I was so impressed to see that the students followed in Langston’s footsteps, while using the literary aspects that we have been learning about all year.

The poems are hanging in the classroom right now, but I plan to type them up and distribute the collection to the students.  I am sure you will be impressed, too.