9th grade students explored poetry as a tool for communal memory in a sonnet crown project. Click the link from the Poetry Foundation below to better understand the sonnet and sonnet crown, and hopefully inspire a poem of your own! Below is the crown from the 9th grade. 

It’s about sound, not spelling.

Prose was the wind underneath our kite

No longer in chains but still held in captivity.

With these teachings we find meaning in ourselves

Happy as a puppy looking at everything like a glass half full.

On fire wherever you are, 

An interest to progress, a constant yearn

We learn, we strive, we write, for English time,

And in each verse, time’s meaning gently passes.

School started with loving a country,

We started off the year unable to analyze at all

Two different stories, yet both belong.

Moving simultaneously over bridges that connect us,

The peacocks wail to perform…