Guest Poet for Poetry Workshop

We had the pleasure this week of having, Mr. Frank Hatcher, one of our retired teachers lead our poetry workshop on Friday, November 5th. We explored the concept of metaphor in poetry.  Mr. Hatcher shared the poetry of Barbara Esbensen and then we tried writing some metaphors together. He listed two sets or paired words that were seemingly unrelated: pencil/hotel and dandelion/king. We listed words to describe each without looking for relationships between the two. Then, we looked how how we could connect and compare them. We also started to brainstorm two other words : spelling and war. We will continue with that comparison next poetry workshop.  See charts below for an idea of what we did. It was so fun to listen to Mr. Hatcher read us poetry and share his expertise. He will visit again!