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Beaver Island Community School marks National Poetry Month, 2008

Also A Time to Rhyme a Season of Meter 2008 · Beaver Island National Poetry Month

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Dates2008-04 – 2008-05-02
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Summary

For National Poetry Month, Beaver Island Community School teachers described ongoing poetry reading, memorization, writing, and classroom discussion across the elementary and high-school grades. The high school received copies of Poetry magazine, and fifth- and sixth-grade students were preparing the play Get Up and Go for May 2.

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This is a published school-program report and advance performance notice, not student work, attendance data, a curriculum record, or a completed production review.

Sources

  1. Beaver Beacon, April 2008, "A Time to Rhyme, a Season of Meter".
    Describes poetry reading and writing in elementary classrooms, Poetry magazine work in high school, and the fifth- and sixth-grade production of "Get Up and Go" planned for May 2. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2008-04_Beaver-Beacon
  2. The held April issue scan confirms the school-literature report.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2008-04_Beaver-Beacon

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Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island Community School marks National Poetry Month, 2008”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-national-poetry-month-2008/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, April 2008, "A Time to Rhyme, a Season of Meter". (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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