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Beaver Island students create a collaborative “A Poem for L.A.,” 1992

Also Beaver Island Community School “A Poem for L.A.” · 1992 collaborative school poetry exercise

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TypeEvent
Date1992-05-01
WithinBeaver Island
ErasModern era
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Education
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Summary

On May 1, 1992, Beaver Island Community School’s ninth- and tenth-grade English class conducted a collaborative poetry exercise. Students responded only to the line immediately before theirs, producing a poem the class connected with the Los Angeles events of the previous day.

Evidence limits

This is a classroom and publication notice, not a complete lesson plan, transcript of the exercise, or assessment of student learning.

Sources

  1. Reports a May 1 writing exercise in which ninth- and tenth-grade students built a poem line by line without seeing earlier lines, and publishes an excerpt the class connected to the Los Angeles events of the previous day. The holding institution's portal restricts automated access; the archive holds a copy of this issue and can provide it on request.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1992-05_Beaver-Beacon
  2. The held twenty-page issue scan confirms the classroom poetry report.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1992-05_Beaver-Beacon

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Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island students create a collaborative “A Poem for L.A.,” 1992”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-community-school-poetry-for-la-1992/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, May 1992, “POETRY” and “A POEM FOR L.A.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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