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 Poems of Condition
a how-to-be poem
that is built with conditional clauses
The poetry of Rudyard Kipling is inspiring student writers to try new techniques with the traits of sentence fluency and idea development.
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Student Sample Being Sought: Early Elementary
WritingFix is currently seeking a K-3rd grade student's sample from this writing assignment that can be featured in this space. Submitted student work must show evidence of revision, editing, and the final draft must be typed and sent through e-mail. Teachers: if you can help us obtain up to three student samples, along with a digital photo of the students and a signed permission slips, we will send you either a complimentary copy of the Northern Nevada Writing Project's Elementary Writing Guide, or you may choose from any of our NNWP publications. Writing created as a class or in student groups is always acceptable.
Write to us at publish@writingfix.com and write "If" in your e-mail's subject line, if you have a student sample to share with us.
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Student Sample: Middle School
 Dance Teacher
by Kristina, seventh grade poet
If you can point and flex your toe,
And bring people up when they’re low,
If you can criticize with praise,
Or make children’s spirits raise,
If you can always make us improve,
In every step we move and groove,
If on stage is your place to be,
And you have no fear of what people see.
If you dream to leap and fly through the sky,
And in your steps you want to fly,
If you understand the positions of arms,
And you think pointe shoes are little charms,
If you can glide through things without a care,
Or you have many pins in your hair,
If you bring people up when they’ve had a bad day,
And tell them that their routine was okay.
If you can always come out with a smile,
And express yourself just once in a while,
If you have no fright of embarrassment,
Or your recitals make a true statement,
If you don’t care how good we are,
It only matters that we try through and far,
If you are a role model of mine,
Then you are a dance teacher, quite divine.
(Click here to view/print Kristen and four of her classmates' If poems)
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Student Samples: High School
 Chef
by Sage, ninth grade poet
If you find offices boring,
And isolation rough,
If you are ready for exploring,
But are not yet tough,
Or need a little extra schooling,
When you want to create,
For a thing that is far from grueling,
That you can serve on a plate,
If you love to work with food,
In your daily living,
But suffer the rude,
And face the giving
If you endure all this,
And undergo all of the adversity,
If you struggle for bliss,
You will come across diversity,
If you never waste,
And working hard is an everyday endeavor,
You will craft food that everyone will taste:
You will be a chef.
 Hairstylist
by Liane, ninth grade poet
If you like to sigh and smile and snip
As your shiny scissors go clip clip
If you whistle as you make dye dip
And cherish heads of hair, thin or thick
If your manicured nails can stroke
But never strangle any split strand
And have a room temp bottle of Coke
To grab in your left and unused hand
If you can clone Halley Berry hair
On some woman with not much left
If you like to trim split ends with care
With precision very quick and deft
If your bubble gum will always pop
With a gleeful l click as you measure
If your heart leaps at every grey
And you know just what to make it brown
If a customer had a bad day
And you know to bring him up from down
And giggle and chirp and make fine talk
As you trim all her uneven locks
But most of all enjoy doing so-
Then you will be a hairstylist
(Click here to view/print Sage, Liane and two of their classmates' If poems) |
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