• Dear Poets,• During the year, we have learned how to become

poets. Today I want to teach you that poets, like Emily Dickinson, get ideas / inspiration for their poems by using their five senses. Emily got the idea for this poem by using her senses. Do you think that Emily observed a snake before writing this piece? What makes you think that? How do you think Emily felt about snakes? What makes you think that? Write your responses in your Writers Notebooks.

• Good Morning, Poets,• Today will be taking a nature poetry walk if it’s

nice outside. We will take clipboards, observe, write and maybe draw. What do you think we will see on our walk? Let’s try and list as many things as we can. Be descriptive. Don’t just say “green trees”. Try “emerald green trees with leaves floating in the breeze”.

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• Yesterday we were working on getting ideas for poetry using our 5 senses. You observed the items just like Emily must have observed a snake in order to write A Narrow Fellow in the Grass. Today I want to teach you that you can get ideas for poems from everyday objects, by looking at the objects in a fresh, new way.

• I have a poem to share with you by a poet named Zoe Ryder White who saw an ordinary object in a fresh, new way. Zoe could have seen and described the object in regular words but instead she saw the object with poet’s eyes. Pencil Sharpener by Zoe Ryder White. Today, let’s pay special attention to how Zoe gets ideas for her poem by seeing the pencil sharpener in a fresh, new way.

• Choose an object in the room to write about and begin your poetic journey.