This past Friday we held our very first War Eagle Writing Studio Poetry Reading. While I have a larger poetry reading event planned for later this fall, I decided on the fly this past Wednesday (9/28/16) that it would be a good idea to do a few small-scale poetry readings in our studio room for several reasons:

We were coming to the end of our 2nd week of our poetry unit, and I felt it was of utmost importance to give students the opportunity to share the poems they have written aloud to the...