This fall, 8th grade students at Pagosa Peak Open School are studying storytelling and different kinds of poetry through the novel-in-verse ‘The Crossover’. Students were challenged to use a science article, highlight figurative language, and then turn those words into ‘found materials’ poems. Below are a few samples of their work…
Alison Beach
Middle School ELA Advisor
Deserts are following you
Deserts have always
Been an issue.
Turning large sand
Seas, into even
Larger sand arenas,
Caused by people
Using too much
Of their resources.
And if people
Keep doing their
Ways,
The deserts will
Keep following them.
Keeping everything and
Everywhere they
Go as dry as a bone.
Lotus Muller
Interland
The internet is a unique
And a fascinating place.
You can learn new things,
Read your favorite books,
And so much more.
However, to access the internet,
You must use a special,
Yet complex,
Contraption
That will allow you to enter.
The internet is big place,
Just like the ocean.
The things you are being recommended,
The waves.
Zoey Brody Abeyta
Sewer Life
Sewer life is
Dark and cold,
Damp and alone.
Animals scurry to
a place like home
With murky waters.
Dark tunnels. It’s
a perfect place for
A home.
Mila Brookins
Fruit Poem
A ripe juicy brings a smile to many people’s faces.
Sometimes fruit is hard and bitter. The fruit
changes color, softens and gets sweeter and attractive to animals and humans.
Fruit spreads its seeds, ensuring the plants’ survival and regrowth. A colorless gas is made up
of carbon and hydrogen atoms.
Growth, reproduction, maturation and decay. Roots, flowers, and ripening the fruit, although it
serves other purposes at a higher level. A stiff layer of the fruit.
Ben Yazzie