We listened to one another.
We wrote to prompts.
We shared what we wrote.
The writing prompts helped each class of sixth graders to focus on questions:
What lesson do you recall learning, and who taught you this and why is it the lesson you remember?
When have you been in a situation that was so different from your known context that you passed by without understanding?
What is it that you only now understand because, earlier, when you were a child, you were only able to see things from your perspective?
How do you imagine your future and is college and service a part of your future?
In the end, I returned home and sat down with a cup of tea to read their comments about what they liked during the workshop. It was the opportunity to tell their own stories, meet a "real" poet (poem writer), ask questions....and not have to rhyme.
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