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| Written by Brian McCauley | |||
| Wednesday, 25 November 2009 08:00 | |||
A class of Paola Middle School students showed off their prowess as poets last week.  Conice Donahy and Karla Lohaus-Fast have been co-teaching an eighth-grade communications class, and the students recently got a chance to express their creative side. In order to complete an assigned project, the students had to study different types of poetry and their elements, such as poetic art, poetry in motion, musical poetry, Shakespearean sonnet, Dr. Seuss-style children’s rhyme, alliteration nation and metaphors in poems, among others. But the real fun took place Thursday, when the students got up in front of the class and read their poems. Some even went so far as to act out their poems based on nursery rhymes in a style similar to charades. Lohaus-Fast taught the poetry project during the past week along with Sherry Ball, who was substituting for Donahy. Lohaus-Fast was pretty pleased with the outcome on Thursday. “I think most of the kids had a lot of fun, and some of them are really promising poets,” she said.
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