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Sunday, October 31, 2021

Persevere is a Word


 



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Thursday, October 28, 2021

Pass the NOUN Please!

 





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Thursday, October 14, 2021

Retirement

 


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This poem is a decima. The rhyme scheme is ABBAACCDDC, and there are 8 syllables each line.

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I am an experienced teacher. I am the author of Reconsidering Read-Aloud (Stenhouse) and I have poems in the Poetry Friday Anthology, and the Poetry Friday Anthologies for Middle School, Science, and Celebrations (Pomelo Books); Dear Tomato: An International Crop of Food and Agriculture Poems, National Geographic Book of Nature Poems, The Best of Today's Little Ditty (2014-15,2016, 2017-18), Amy Ludwig VanDerwater's Poems are Teachers, National Geographic's The Poetry of US, IMPERFECT: Poems About Mistakes, A World Full of Poems, 10.10 Poetry Anthology, Poems to Lift You Up and Make You Smile (YDP), IMPERFECT II, Things We Eat, and Two Truths and a FIB Poetry Anthology.
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