Acronymble at Hamilton Middle School:Letters: FTFMN
Forgotten Titans follow monkey news.
fried turkey feathers minus nutrition
Friends triumphed, found marginal niceness.
Letters: APAINJ
Assorted painters argued in New Jersey
astonished panthers ambled
into natural Jell-O
Letters: TORPPQ
to order ravioli,
press Pound Q
Territorial ordinary raddiccio
pretended placid quietness
Letters: AILKPI
Abalones incubated licorice
keeping particular "Ikes"
Astonishingly, I like keeping peace indexes
Letters: XDUOW
Expecting disaster, Ulysses
offered wine.
Excellent doodles unfurled odd words.
Xenophobic ducks understood other worlds.
Letters: AUOLGA
Actually, umbrellas open like growing angels.
Letters: AVMVNDL
Authentic Vulcan maps
virtual Neptunian direction lessons.
Aspirin volunteered Monday
victuals never denied licorice.
Are violins made valuable?
Not during Lent.
The coolest thing about the Acronymble Game is that kids (above are MY acronymbles) use their vocabularies in a fuller way than if you say, "let's write something using all your good words." (guaranteed to result in: I like my friend. He is nice.)
Yesterday, the sixth graders wrote credo poems based on Roque Dalton's "Like You". Here is mine:
Like You
Like you, I love to move my pen across the white page
to discover and create my thoughts.
Like you, I lose patience with leaders who do not
hear me, but I keep speaking and writing.
I believe poetry is meaningful as a way of life.
I believe your walnut skin, olive skin, pink skin,
ebony skin is a beautiful part of you and
that what we have in common runs deeper
than the shapes of our noses and lips,
the differences in our age and outfits.
Like you, I love my life and feel joy in my senses.
Like you, I am upset by unfair decisions
and distressed when someone I love is ill
or dies.
I believe we can do better by this earth
and be more careful with each other.
Like you, I work every day to
live up to what I believe.
-Laura Gamache
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