The prompt for the group meeting is:
An Instrument and an Odor.
6th Grade Poem
The Black Stallion
A Black Stallion
beautiful in each in every way.
Always carefree till it’s time
to hide away.
Always full of energy till it’s time
to hit the hay.
So Majestic
it makes you want to play.
The black Stallion
will always win the day.
S. 6th Grade
PROMPT FOR THE WEEK: THE POEM “ON TRAVELING TO BEAUTIFUL PLACES” BY MARY OLIVER
We are experimenting with giving a prompt for the week so members can have more time to work on it and then bring their writing to the group meeting the following Monday.
The prompt for this week is a poem by Mary Oliver from her book of poems titled, A Thousand Mornings.
On Traveling To Beautiful Places
Every day I’m still looking for God
and I’m still finding him everywhere,
in the dust, in the flowerbeds.
Certainly in the oceans,
in the islands that lay in the distance
continents of ice, countries of sand
each with its own set of creatures
and God, by whatever name.
How perfect to be aboard a ship with
maybe a hundred years still in my pocket.
But it’s late, for all of us,
and in truth the only ship there is
is the ship we are all on
burning the world as we go.
by Mary Oliver
Take any inspiration you find in the poem and write in whatever direction you wish to take it.
PROMPT: LABELS WE PUT ON CHILDREN
The prompt for the group meeting was the following line:
My wife tells me I’m really unfair to one of our children, but she’ll never tell me whether it’s Roger, Claire, or the lazy stupid one.
3rd Grade Gaston Students
The prompt for the 3rd Grade Students had to do with a story written about monsters. The class was asked to illustrate and to write a review, this is just a few classics…
I loved the story, I wish I had a part two were(sp where) they all play together.
I think the leson(sp lesson) was you should do new things and maby (sp maybe) you will like it.
Your (sp you’re) a amazing witer (sp writer), I love you Gretchen Keefer!
M. 3rd Grade
Don’t Judge people before you get to Know them
Anonymous . 3rd Grade
Prompt-a-Month: Children’s Table
The April prompt-a-month for our Writers in the Grove members is:
Did you sit at the children’s table?
Writers in the Grove members may hand in their submissions during the workshops or use our members only submission form. Check out the guidelines and instructions for submissions in the announcement.
PROMPT FOR THE WEEK: MARCH FOR OUR LIVES
We are experimenting with giving a prompt for the week so members can have more time to work on it and then bring their writing to the group meeting the following Monday.
The prompt for this week is:
The student led March For Our Lives rally just occurred this past weekend (3/24/18) in Washington D.C. and in sibling rallies in more than 800 cities around the U.S. and the world .
What would you say if one of the students asked you to join in the demonstration? Or, if you did, write your thoughts about it.
PROMPT: MUSIC
The prompt for the group meeting was about Music.
Music: What does it do?
PROMPT: BEING WHO YOU ARE AND PROUD OF IT
One of our group’s members, who taught special ed for two decades, brought in a poem by anonymous about being who you are and proud of it, though it started each element with the negative.
The first few lines were:
If you can’t be a tree on the top of the hill
Be a shrub in the valley, but be
The best little shrub on the side of the hill.
Be a bush if you can’t be a tree.
Write about how you go about being yourself and what attitude or perspective is required to accomplish this .
Prompt: Preoccupation of Humankind
We are experimenting with giving a prompt for the week so members can have more time to write on it and then bring their writing to the meeting the following Monday.
The prompt for this week is:
Watching is a preoccupation of humankind, but the inability to adequately react to all they perceive eventually blinds them.
Writers in the Grove 