Third and final #ThesisoftheWeek for December is inspired by Stuart Kestenbaum's poem "Prayer for the Dead." Use it if you'd like. Share it if you'd like! #PoetryasPractice #FormativeWriting #WritingtoLearn #celchat #nctechat #2ndaryELA #Poetry poetryaspractice.blogspot.com/2025/09/intr...
The second #ThesisoftheWeek for December is based on "Myth of the Vanishing Indian" by Rena Priest. Use it if you'd like, and share it if you'd like! #PoetryasPractice #FormativeAssessment #WritingPractice #2ndaryELA #celchat #nctechat #poetry poetryaspractice.blogspot.com/2025/09/intr...
December's first #ThesisoftheWeek is inspired by "Kindness" by Anya Silver. Use it if you'd like. Share it if you'd like! #PoetryasPractice #2ndaryELA #CELChat #edchat #formativeassessment #writingpractice #poetry #formativewriting #writingtolearn poetryaspractice.blogspot.com/2025/09/intr...
Last #ThesisoftheWeek for November is inspired by "It Matters," by Laura Foley, which pays homage to Mary Oliver. Use it if you'd like, and share it if you'd like! #PoetryasPractice #FormativeAssessment #2ndaryELA #WriteBesideThem #PracticeMakesProgress
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The third #ThesisoftheWeek for November is inspired by Natalie Goldberg's poem "Home." Use it if you'd like. Share it if you'd like! #2ndaryELA #PoetryasPractice #WritingPractice
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The first #ThesisoftheWeek for November is up on the #PoetryasPractice Blog. This week's poem is "Gate C22" by Ellen Bass. #writingpractice #formativeassessments #writetolearn #writetothink #createtolearn poetryaspractice.blogspot.com/2025/09/intr...
October's final #ThesisoftheWeek is up! This week's poem is "Dust" by Danusha Lameris. #PoetryasPractice #FormativeAssessment #WritingPractice docs.google.com/document/d/1...
#ThesisoftheWeek for Week 3 of October is inspired by a beautiful poem by Marjorie Saiser entitled "Crane Migration: Platte River." Find this prompt & others on the Poetry as Practice Blog! (Photo credits: Chris Helzer/The Nature Conservancy & USGS) poetryaspractice.blogspot.com/2025/09/intr...
The latest #ThesisoftheWeek has been posted on my Poetry as Practice blog. This week's stimulus text is "Bread" by Richard Levine. Use and share if you would like! poetryaspractice.blogspot.com/2025/09/intr...
This week's #ThesisoftheWeek is based on the poem "Bending Sound" by Paula Gordon Lepp. poetryaspractice.blogspot.com/2025/09/intr...
Rounding the bend into October, & here is the fifth installment of #ThesisoftheWeek based on the poem "Belonging" by Rosemary Wahtola Trommer. And, yes, this is a way of getting more poems into the hands of young people! #poetry #writingpractice poetryaspractice.blogspot.com/2025/09/intr...
It's Week 4 of #ThesisoftheWeek and the poem for thesis practice this week is "Basilico" by Sue Ann Gleason: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Monday 9/15 begins Week Three of #ThesisoftheWeek which is always linked on my Poetry as Practice Blog. The stimulus text this week is "Balance" by Dorianne Laux. Here's the doc: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Week two of #ThesisoftheWeek and the stimulus text is "Mending" by David Axelrod. Use it if you'd like, and share it if you'd like! poetryaspractice.blogspot.com/2025/09/intr...