Celebrate National Poetry Month
with a school-wide Sweet 16 Poetry Bracket!
April 1: "Who has Seen the Wind" (C. Rossetti) vs. "I'm Thankful" (J. Prelutsky)
April 2: "Ickle Me, Pickle Me, Tickle Me, Too" (S. Silverstein) vs. "The Swing" (R. L. Stevenson)
[Spring Break]
April 12: Four Nonsense Poems (E. Lear) vs. "If I were in Charge of the World" (J. Viorst)
April 13: "A Kite" (F. D. Sherman) vs. "The Old Pond" (M. Basho)
April 14: "The Crocodile" (L. Carroll) vs. "I'm Nobody, Who are You?" (E. Dickinson)
April 15: "Life Doesn't Frighten me at All" (M. Angelou) vs. "13 Ways of Loving a Blackbird" (T. Winder)
April 16: "When Giving is All we Have" (A. Rios) vs. "The Hill we Climb" (A. Gorman)
April 19th: "Remember" (J. Harjo) vs. "Broken English" (R. Kaur)
April 20th: Elite Eight Contest begins!
Let the words begin!
Image: McGill, J. (2021). Spring photo with annotation. CC-BY NC.