Persuasion Paper Poetry

Persuasion Papers to Grade

It's 3:00 A.M.
Can't sleep.
I didn't finish reading those five paragraph essays.
The kids worked so hard.
Most of them.
Some are already asking how they did.
Gotta give em good feedback.
They deserve that.
50 papers to go.



It's 3:30 A.M.
Man!
Did I ever teach topic sentences?
Have they ever heard of punctuation?
Run-on sentences galore!
Fragments!
Pronouns?
Why do they keep speaking to me?!
C-
Dang!
Only two papers done.
48 papers to go.
Sigh.


4:00 A.M.
OH MY!
What persuasive Voice!
What great ideas!
Fluency.
Transitions.
Counterarguments.
The research!
Sources identified too!
A+

Wait.
Now I'm thinking,
What would happen if I let the kids chew gum?
I know.
It would be under my table and chairs and my shoe!
That's what!
B-
Only 45 more papers to go.

-Mr. Kohl

poem by megan

Love life

Love the
people who love you, and pray for the people who don’t.
If there’s a
chance, take it; if it changes your life, let it.
No one said
life would be easy, they just said that it would be worth it.

 

 

By Megan L.

Totally, like, Awesome

I like the word like.
It is, like, the best.
I, like, want to write, like, similies,
But similies, like, already use the word like.
Can I, like, write like a famous poet
If, like, I can't, like, control what I, like, like?

Mr. Kohl

Breaking the Silence

Sammy ran so fast, the world blew past me.
Running so fast made the wind whistle into my face,
hair whipping my head.
Sammy began to blur.
He looked like a Birch tree except for he was a spirit among them.
Soon, all too soon the wind quit whistling around me,
and then an ear piercing scream.
Sammy's rearing broke all of the utter silence.