What the 6th graders at Cedar River Middle School liked about the poetry workshop:

What did you like the most about Rustling Wrens poetry reading & workshop:

Learning about a poem writer.

Hearing the answers to our questions.

Expressing my past and thinking about things I've learned.

The way she writes her poetry.

Getting to remember and realize what we have learned and how that can relate to poetry.

I like that you can picture something in a poem.

Having a real poet in class helped me understand poetry better.

Hearing the poems.

I really like talking about things you've done in your life and how it related to your poems.

I like how I could picture in my mind what was happening in the poems you read.

Listening to others.

Talking about things I thought and things I want to know

Hearing your poems.

Digging deep in our minds to express ourselves.

Hearing poems about family.

How we wrote it all down.

We loved poems about the photos.

Listening to the author's poems.

Writing about my past.

The beach poem was great!

I liked the poems you made and how you let us write, also.

I liked how you gave us time to write, and how you gave us ideas on what to write about.

I liked how you had things that were interactive and had us write things, too.

I like that she let us make our own kinds of stories.

I like that we got to take time to think about our own answers and then share our thoughts.

I like how you had us write.

I like how we saw pictures and heard poems.

I liked how you helped us actually think about using imagination in our poems.

That you can make poems from everything.

I like the list poems, very fun.

Something I will take away is the meaing of the poems.

I liked the different storys and how the poems sounded when she read them.

I liked the descriptive images and how she put different details into one poem.

I loved to write the lists, list poems--thoses are my favorite.  I also like how you showed us pictures of your family to connect to the poetry.

That any lesson learned is a lesson to write about.

That all families are special.

I was thinking of my sister because she loves to read and write--and I would love for you to come here in two years when my sister is here.

I learned about your past--and now I want to teach English in another country--thanks for the inspiration.

I liked all of it--and learned to be a detective and to put myself into the other person's shoes.