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North Country Road Students Host Poetry Tea

Students share poetry books with parents Friday morning.

Sixth grade English students at the hosted a Poetry Tea in the cafeteria Friday morning as 20 volunteers read their posts aloud before enjoying tea and cookies.

First-year English teacher Allison Brenner organized the event after her students spend two months on a poetry unit where they researched free verses, haikus, chinquaints and more forms of poetry.

"This is their chance to display it to their parents and everyone else in the grade which is a nice thing for them to be able to do," Brenner said. "The kids created a poetry book called All About Me, basically scrap books of all the things they’ve found during the poetry unit."

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20 volunteer presenters read their poems in front of the parents and teachers before all the students were able to share their books for the first time with their parents over tea and cookies.


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