What THEY loved.

We read Lisa Jarnot's poem "They Loved Paperclips." We talked about the advantages of using the third-person collective pronoun "they" to allow for some distance. The students began to see that they could write a poem that include not only their own perspective, but could allow for the viewpoint of others. See their work!

Ms. Cole 6th grade


They Love
Shirlette S.

Thye love their pencil moving
across their paper and
they love the weather when
it changes every day and
they love their eyes moving
from side to side and
they love their fingers moving
one by one and they love their
paper making rapply sounds
and they love their cars
horn as they beep
for someone to move out
of their way and they
love the air because
they get oxygen and they love
their straight
hair as they flat iron
and it pressed out



Poem
Jameena

They love shopping
they love cats and dogs
they love having family
they love working and going to school
they love spending money
the love eating
they love having a roof over their head
that is what they love



They Love
William D.

They love science books
they love the sound of
they wind they love the smell of
chicken fingers and mac & cheese
they like the shape of the
globe they love the smell of
new shoes they love plants.



Poem
Sendalio W.

They love hearing things on the
radio they like books they like the
sound of cars they like when there
is a word wall they like it when
family and friends come over they
like when kids come over they like
good grades they like video games
they like poetry they like playing
baseball and basketball they like
playing board games.




Ms. Harris 6th grade


They Love Outside
Carisma F.

They love outside and
everything out there
they love hearing cars
honk their horns and
the smell of gasoline
they love hearing the
crickets and crows they
love looking at the sky
to see what they can find like
shapes and animals they
love looking at the big green trees



Poem
Jermel H.

They love many things
they love crossword puzzles
they hate cats and they
love art they still love cooking
and really love puzzles and books they
like bike riding on Sundays they
love this and that they love
garbage and love bugs they eat
worms and slugs



Me and My Friends!
Dequan B.

They love Hannah
Montana they love
the click of the keyboard
they love hushpuppies they
love rings they love movies
they love airwalks they love
venns they love pizza and
a pool they love to become
a teacher they love to sing they
love to dance they love to
go to the movies they love
pickles they love me too they
also love Fridays and Spongebob.




Ms. Kessinger 6th grade

Love, Love Love
Lakeya S.

They love the chalkboard
they love gospel music
they love fights
they love tweety bird
the love crazy people
all these things they love the most
they love Bowow and Chris Brown
they love school
love, love, love is all they say
they love fruit
they love concrete
they love chicken
they love to freeze
they love tornadoes



They Love Fabric
Lyneisha F.

The love needles they love
thread they love seeds and
candy they loved machines
they love the sound
of pencils on paper and
fabric they love the fabric
on Sundays and
they love clothes
that have their name and style
the thread for the needles
the ruler for the thighs and
also when their fashion
are going down the aisle.



They Love
Moesha T.

They love tornadoes
they love poems and
strawberries the cars
the fabric the fries the
sound of a hum they love
school on a Saturday they
love computers all through
the week they love the
hairstyles that they wear
Mondays they love the coats
they love the shoes that
match the ceiling and the
Tide they use to clean their
clothes what they love is
Ms. Van’s poems she brings.