Anna Roseboro of Michigan is our host today for our fifth and final day of the August Open Write. Anna encourages us to walk through poetry from #VerseLove 2024 and apply the TIME acronym to the elements of a poem and construct a verse about one of our choice. You can read her full prompt here. I chose Stacey Joy’s Our Old Kitchen Table to think about these elements in her poem and to write about each.
Time
Imagery
Music
Emotion
Tabletime Tempos
Through all these tender table times
In games, gatherings, cartoons, showers,
Meals, drumrolls of dice and laughter and tears against
the backdrop of time ticking
Emanating life tempos tintinnabulated and tolled, thus told
around the old kitchen table
Common Threads 
Ironically, I didn’t have the Time yesterday to do this prompt, but it intrigues me. I am thinking about using it with my 5th and 6th graders. They need a little more practice with poetry before we do it. I am thinking of doing an Ethical ELA style prompt each week to get them reading and writing more poetry.
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Margaret, that’s a fabulous idea! I like that it can be done almost like rewriting poetry that exists, just writing about it in verse. I think they will love this.
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