Week 8: Emotion and Sense

This week the classes read Hope is the thing with feathers by Emily Dickinson. Each student was asked to brain storm several emotions and animals that might match them. Then they were asked questions about their animal for each of the 5 senses: What does it feel like? What colors is it? What sounds does the animal make? Plus many more. The students were asked to use their descriptions of the animal to write a poem about the emotion they matched it to.


Ms. Gonzalez's Class:

Mad

Mad makes you run away from him
Mad roars very loud, you can hear him far away
and never know when he will stop at all.

By Jose C.



Exited is a bird
It is loud and brave
The color is light green
It whistles like a heart singing
It flies high to the sky
The feathers are soft as a soft blanket.

By Ana R.


Mad is a thing with
big teeth with huge
paws and with a
long tail he roars
and attacks until
he hunts you down
all you see is the
color of brown on top
of you and biting you
and you will
always fear him.

By Leonardo O.

From Ms. Formisano's Class:

Anger is the stripes
and long tail.
Angry is the black and orange colors.
Angry is like a roar
And running very fast,
Angry is looking for pray.

By Eric C.


Happy is a soft thing
happy and brown and
runs on 4 paws he is
always active and
waiting for fun he
barks and that means
he wants to play and because
he is so small he hides anywhere
he is always happy and
friendly to me.

By Jose B.


Stress

Stress is the thing that moves in slowly.
It eats your soul.
It clings to you with it’s claws.
Stress is the thing that has black eyes and is gray.

By Amor D.


From Mr. Lukas's Class:

In Love

In love is a puppy.
In love is cute and small.
In love barks,
In love walks and runs.
In love is soft.
In love sleeps and plays.

By Carmen A.


Sadness

Sadness is a scaly animal
that cries in the lonliness,
it bubbles to talk but
no one hears.

It’s so depressing to see this
lonely fish crying without
seeing its tears.

Talking but no one hears, screaming
for a friend but cannot find one.

A fish is so lonely it swims
back and forth looking for someone
but all it sees is water and rocks,
no communication, no happiness.
Sadness depression, stressed out
is what this poor creature feels.

Sadness is a scaly wet
animal, a fish, a fish, a fish.

By Dulce C.

Brave

Brave is rough and stomps
ROARS and ROARS to
everything it spots.

Its all about force,
never shows fear.

Even though it bites
it can be lazy
through all that it runs
you could even be the prey.

It’s yellow and brown
and furry all around
Get to his/her mouth
you’ll regret it!

By Asucena L.