Little Room

We read Max Jacob's poem "Little Room." The students and I discusssed concrete details and how they create setting. We had a really great discussion about the way the speaker remembered and imagined his childhood room. Then, the students were asked to remember a place they knew and to focus on setting while they wrote. There were many favorite places revisited.


Ms. Cole 6th grade
Week 3
10/25/07



Garden Square
-Octavia B.

I remember a place I used to
love at my grandma’s house it was
in her backyard. I called it the
garden square. I used to think that
the garden was a jungle.

Sometimes when I go into
the garden square I think about
the ants. Spiders are turning
big. I smell nature. I hear
wild animals and
I hear voices and see a lot
of trees.



Poem
-Daveon J.

I remember my friend’s garage. The color
of the black Lexus, the fresh-car smell,
the darkness of the garage, on which I
would just sit there and chill with my
friends. There were many thing in this
garage, care tires, windows, old clocks, and
many rocks. I would sit in the car and
maybe write, wit the room so dark, the
quietest garage in the world.
And that’s my most favorite place I know.



Poem
-Shirlette S.

I remember the quiet
place in the house. The walls were like
a lot of little squares. I see a lot
of creatures in it, but they are fake frogs.
The frogs have all different kinds of patterns
on them like Zs Zacks. Every time I
need a place to go somebody is always
in there. I close the door and write songs
and do my homework. This place
is not that big but I sit on
the edge of the bathtub and
write whatever I feel. Sometimes
it takes me a long time to get in
there because people go in and out
the bathroom, yes, I said the bathroom
where I can study and nobody
can tell me what to do
and how to do it.



Ms. Harris 6th grade
Week 3
10/25/07

Poem
Carisma F.

I remember in my room
staring at the
wall imagining
it as the pretty
dark blue sky
looking at all
the thousands
of stars,
hoping I will
see a shooting
star, looking
at that bold
moon, asking
myself what
if I could be that
first black American
child to reach
the moon touching
it, what if I could
be the first black
child on all the planets
starting with Mercury and ending
with Pluto. What if? How
come, did I, would I, DO
I have the guts to go
to the solar system.



My Poem
-Arrion L.

I remember a gold
house was a good
place for me gold
knobs on the doors down
on the floor I used
to see things down there
good things I see it.
Just for me knowing
that the gold house is
all for me to see
when I am fast a
sleep.



I Remember
-Jermel H.

I remember in the
fall time as a young child
with my mother and grand
mother at the train station one night. It
was windy and the wind blew me up
over my mom. I was floating
in the sky. I couldn’t get down
from the air. It kept me up in the
sky, people driving on the expressway
looked at me. Soon my mother and grand
mother were screaming for help while
I was floating above the train tracks.
Soon I blacked out and I woke up
in the hospital. I asked what
happened. They said the wind
blew me up in the sky. I remembered
that day for the rest of my life.




Ms. Kessinger 6th grade
Week 3
10/25/07

Best Place Ever
-Tysheanna F.

I remember my playroom as a small
child. The room was empty. It had
only a table, a lamp and a microwave.
I sat there and wrote or played with
my toys. Sometimes I even went to sleep
on the bed. The room was very quiet and
fun. Sometimes it made me want to
sing. On the wall there were small
animals. I transformed them into sea animals
in water. I became a fountain that
blows so pretty.



I remember a soccer field
--Virginia E.

In this soccer field I see
men become kids, a chair become
a boat, a ball become a river or a
beach, women become girls, boys
become kings, and girls become
princesses. I hear the waves,
princesses give rules, kings cheer
for their new wives. It looks like
a mansion with water all over,
people around it. I always can
touch the river, the people
and myself.



Poem
-Chaddrick M.

I remember when I went
to six flags when I walked in I
saw a whole bunch of people walking
around an
when I
looked up
I saw kids yelling
and screaming I want
to
get off
also
When I was
in line
for
a
ride
I saw kids
cutting
the line
saying I had been
right here
and I hear rollercoasters going
straight
up
into the
air
like
a
gorilla
pounding
on
his
chest
roaring.

Double, Double Toil and Trouble

To get in the spirit of Halloween, we read a segment of Act 4 from Macbeth. We had a discussion about mood, and how moods can actually be set by the inclusion of specific concrete details. The students were then asked to create a mood by designing their own brew. As expected, the brews got pretty scary.



Ms. Cole 6th grade
Week 4
11/01/07



Die a Little Later Brew
-Arquesha A.

In my brew I will include
a cat’s eye and baby drool.

Eye of leopard. Toe of D.
Hair of A. Teaspoon
of Shaq’s tongue.

For a charm of powerful trouble
I will add a tail of raccoon.

Here is what my brew can do
make you a celebrity.





Room of Fear
-Sendalio W.

In my brew I will include
lizard eye and dog legs.

Tail of cheetah. Hair of
a person. Tongue of a raccoon.
Toe of a cat.

For a charm of powerful trouble
I will add a sting of a bee.




Brew of Trouble
-Amanda C.

Double, double toil and
trouble, fire burn, and
cauldron bubble. Eye of a
cat and tail of a snake.
In this cauldron this
will bake. A pinch of brain
you’ll go insane. A teaspoon
of blood and hint of
mud. For a charm of such
trouble my brew can
tell your future.




Ms. Harris 6th grade
Week 4
11/01/07

The Hungry Brew
-Derrick H.

In my brew I will include
a woman’s foot. Eye of
a crow, toe of a moe, half of
a rat, tongue of a boy like that.

Here is what my brew can do.

My brew can make chicken soup.
My brew can make you tie your shoe.
It can make it go from loop through
loop, and my brew would make your opponent
cease the hoop. That’s what my brew could do.




Double Trouble
-Malik T.

In my brew I will include
human shoes.

Eye of a wolf. Toe of mice.

Hair of a bear. Tongue of a lion.

For a charm of powerful trouble
I will add a monkey’s ear.

Here is what my brew can do. It
can make a sound like kaboom.




The Halloween Brew
-Latisha M.

Double, double toil and trouble.
In my brew I will include a pig’s tail.
eye of a porcupine, a toe of raccoon.
Hair of a monkey. Tongue of a lizard.

For a charm of powerful trouble
I will add the eye of a snake.
Here is what my brew can do—make
a bowl of ice cream glue.




Ms. Kessinger 6th grade
Week 4
11/01/07

The Scary 303
Jacobi D.

Triple, triple blood and death
this is 303, no more Macbeth.
Eye of a tiger, oh so scary.
Hair of a bear, oh so hairy.
Halloween is coming, Halloween
is here. All you
kids better have no fear.
This is my curse
a curse of me. Say this
curse and you’ll be free.




Hot Room in a Bed Room
Amia R.

Double, double toil and trouble
as an ear of a person
a tongue of a snake
a bat wing as it was broken
off, a dog foot as it
was walking. A lizard fear
as it was cutting off.
That’s what I think
about the trouble.





How Do You Like Your Brew!
-Rae L.

Tick tock watch me drop
an eye of a rat.
The tongue on a grum
and the hair of an octopus
the toe of a goblin and venom from
a werewolf. For this charm of
of power and trouble I will add
the spit of a daredevil.
Here is what my brew can do,
make you my slaves and do
whatever I want. From sucking
blood to making a glass of tea.
Do what I want or be turned
into pig’s feet.