This week I brought along an excerpt the poem "Someone Puts a Pineapple Together" by Wallace Stevens and we continued working on description, simile and metaphor. After discussing the poem I had the students close their eyes then reopen them after I pulled out an artichoke. They had to immediately write down what they saw. Then they closed their eyes and I repositioned the artichoke and they again wrote down what they saw upon opening their eyes. They came up with some really fantastic ideas.
Ms. Jaurigue
Ways to see how Artichoke looks
by Julian S.
It stands like a palm tree.
It sleeps like a bat with thousands of wings.
It looks like a turkey without the feet and back of its feathers.
It looks like a porcupine without its feet.
It looks like a fallen palm tree.
It looks like a volcano bursting lava down you.
It looks like a flame gun in front of me bursting.
It looks like a cactus.
Artichoke
by Melissa V.
Like a flower sprouting
Particularly like a coconut hanging from a tree
different kinds of shapes
It looks like a bunch of little bananas.
A lettuce open in half.
How does the Artichoke Look!!
by Fatima T.
It looks like a tree. It looks
like a banana peel that is closed as you spin
it. It looks like a flower that is
closed and you could only see the bottom
part that is green. It looks
like a rocketship that is going to blast off.
The vegetable looks like a person is
using it like soap. It also looks
like a cat closing his arm. It looks
like a lollipop. It also looks like a
flashlight.
Mr. Stasiak
Different Artichoke Ways
by Nancy V.
It looks like a tree!
It looks like an apple.
It looks like an arrow.
It looks like a rose.
It looks like the leaves of a flower.
It looks like a shooting star.
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by Alex O.
A green sun.
A hand with green hair and a green apple.
A small rocket with a green fire coming out.
A green nice rose for a girl.
A small pig’s nose.
Like a shooting star coming down for me.
Artichokes
by Diane T.
What I think it looks like if it is a tree with green leaves.
It looks like a toy that spins and its shape is like a nut.
It looks like it was pointing somewhere or showing you a direction to go.
It looks like a rose that is colored green.
It looks like the bottom of a flower.
It looks like a shooting star.
Ms. Mays
The Artichoke
by Jocelyn C.
It looks like a tree
with leaves coming out.
It looks like a pineapple
upside down.
It looks like a flower
opening and closing.
It looks like a bird with
its wings flying everywhere.
It looks like a four petal flower.
It looks like a palm tree sideways.
The Artichoke
by Fernando V.
It looks like a tree with big leaves
and it reminds me of my tree
at my old house.
Now it looks like bananas hanging from a tree.
Now it looks like a flower.
Not it looks like a rocket.
Now it looks like an animal
with its tongue out.
Now it looks like an animal in
different directions.
Artichoke
by Yadira A.
The tree with its leaves
pointy and green.
The acorn the squirrel
might eat.
Acorn barely coming out
of its seed.
The waves floating.
A beautiful green flower.
The leaves of a sideways pineapple.
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