Found Poems: Based on the article, "The Boys Who Fought Hitler" from Junior Scholastic

Found Poem:
By Clayton Kellum

It was a dark night

Germany was a war

Click-Click, as he pulls the trigger

Turning Jews into scapegoats

Speech after speech, calling them vermin

“Son it is best you forget”

He was only 12

We’re being lied to

So wall to wall

They pasted fliers

“Hitler is a lier”

Found Poem:

By Bruce Borden

“Son it is best you forget what you saw”

That was the law

If one of them was caught

He could be shot

He soon found out

He had no doubt

The game soon ended

It could not be mended

He was 17 years old

He was very bold

Freedom of speech did not exist

There would be no one to resist

Found Poem:

By Gabby Frantz

Safe in the bomb shelter they sit,

Their hearts beating louder than the click-click

Of boots on the street

That help the children beet,

Defend, and keep their country alive

To their relief most people didn’t die. 

They lived on through the pain, the war and grief. 

Now they see their target in the sky

Getting ready to fight with their guns lifted upright

Silly School Poems

Silly School Poem:

By Hannah Ballard

Well, it all started that day,

When our teacher went away.

We were yelling, howling, throwing things, and more

I even asked the substitute if I could go to the grocery store.

After that day, our teacher came back – but she was so mad.

I think we might have been a little TOO bad!

Silly School Poem:

Zach Weisend

My teacher come to school late

That’s her daily trait.

If she comes to school at all

She takes her time down the hall

As she walks, she limps like a bum

If you talk to her, she’ll just hum

She sits on her chair and sleeps in class

I really can’t wait for this day to pass

What If Poems: Inspired by Shel Silverstein

What If:

By Hanna Norton

First day at a new school,

Nervous, scared – I think of all

The what if stuff . . .

What if my hart gets messy

What if my clothes are out of date

What if I don’t stop growing

What if I don’t make friends

What if my chair makes a fart noise and I end up with an embarrassing nickname

What if I am too dumb

What if I have nasty breath

What if I throw up in class

What if I get in trouble in class

What if I flunk 7t grade

What if I forget to wear pans

I stop there, get up, and make a what if check list

And make sure none of these what ifs EVER

Happen to me

What If:

By Mathias Gibson

Hmmm . . . It’s strange

What we would be if so many

Things didn’t happen

What if I was never born?

What if I didn’t have money?

What if I didn’t like pie?

What if no one ever died?

What if – what if – all these what ifs

But it doesn’t matter

What matters is, what is

Images: Write a story/poem based on a randomly selected image

Ruby Slippers

By: Kara Westmoreland

Yeah, I know my sister died by having a house fall on her by Dorothy, who took her shoes.  What they don't know is there are not just one pair of ruby slippers, but two.  The north and south got sparkly, cute, girly shoes because they are just perfect!  The east and the west, which is me, got the deadly, evil slippers that were our grandmother's hand-me-downs.  Since my sister of the east was so cruel and vicious, she would keep a pair to herself . . . A.K.A. the girly ones, and leave me with the hand-me-downs, and the north and south with nothing.  Not a very big shocker.  It's not a surprise she turned out like this.  Getting dropped on your head might just effect your outcome in life.  I'm actually glad she died.  Now I can throw these slippers in the dump and just steal the sparkly ones from Dorothy.  How hard could it be?!

Shopping for Love

By: Remington Froncek

Shopping for love

Reminds me of a dove

I forgot a toothbrush

It's for my crush

I spent all my time shopping

I even got you one extra topping

Because I'm giving you my heart

Instead of this pop-tart

Oral Traditions: The Stories our Families Tell

Oral Traditions: There are Trains in my Dreams

By: Zach Wiesend

My grandpa tells this story every time he is at my house . . . 

When he was little, he had a train set and he would throw, kick, and slam the cars everywhere.  He also liked to make them drive down the stairs in the house, where they would crash at the bottom.

One night, he had a dream.  He dreamed that he threw the train and it started to steam.  It got up and said, "don't ever throw  me again."  Then, it started rolling toward him.  When it got to him he woke up with the pillow on the floor (he thought it was the train) and the blankets everywhere.  

After the dream, he never threw the trains again.

Oral Traditions: Catch the Snake!

By: Tucker Herald

One day my brother and I were driving down to my dad's work to see him.  Along the road there was a really big python!  So, my brother said that we should somehow grab the snake and bring it down to my dad's.  Of course my brother made ME grab it!

So - we were driving down the road and I was holding this huge snake out the window of the truck as we went.  When we got to my dad's work, we decided to put the snake in a box, so his friends would not see it.  We took it to his office and because he was not there, we let it lose. . . 

Later, he walked in and saw the snake and panicked!  He accidentally hit his head on a lamp and passed out!  We were in big trouble, but it still makes us laugh today.

Recipe For Life

A Recipe to be what you want . . . To be the best at EVERYTHING!

By: Thomas Reynolds

1/2 Cup of hard work

1/2 Cup of confidence

1/2 cup of thinking and using your smarts

1 Cup of speed

1 Cup of Stamina

1 Cup of Strength

10 Cups of Heart

4 Cups of determination

5 Cups of love

1 Cup of emotion

7 Cups of kindness

10 Cups of tears - so you don't cry along the way.

But, don't be upset if it's not perfection, 

it's an approximate recipe, 

because no one is perfect anyway