Poetry

To go along with our unit on The Odyssey and journeys, 9th grade students wrote poems based on C.P. Cavafy's Ithaka. The assignment was to write a poem about a personal "Ithaka": a place, a special person, a memory, an object, or a time in life that one longs to return to. Students were required to include a metaphor, an extended metaphor, a simile, a word containing the suffix -some, and a consistent point-of-view (first, second or third person).

Then, in small groups, students read their poems to one another and discussed which poems they felt were the best. The authors of the winning poems read their work to the class (with a few exceptions when students were shy), and the class gave meaningful feedback and asked questions about what inspired the poetry. It was an incredible learning experience for both the winning poets and the audience.

Winning poets are pictured below! Check back soon to read some of the poems!