I AM

Sometimes while sitting in the classes that I attend with my students, I do the assignments that they are working on, just for kicks and giggles.

This assignment happens to be an 8th grade Language Arts assignment. It was fun!! I keep making changes to my poem when I think of something else, or another memory is triggered.

Below my poem I will enter the assignment instructions so you can try it yourself. Leave me a copy in the comments section.

Lara Rogers Tampas


I am from the smell of leather, cotton, springs, and books.
I am from a loving, active, laughing home.
I am from Russian Olives, Irises, leaves, thunder storms, the smell of the earth right after rain, and stars.
I am from Candlelight Soup Suppers, Forced Family Fun, Half a Rogers & Half a Fox, and now a Tampas.
I am from immovable; know what they want and what they believe, and being a perfectionist.
I am from “Be Good, Have Fun, Learn a Lot”, “Charley Chickety is going to sit on your lip", "'There's no crying in baseball'", and Service.
I am from a Love of Heavenly Father, a Faith in Jesus Christ, an education is important, and FAMILY is everything.
I am from green, earthy Iowa, the oasis of an otherwise brown Idaho, salty lakes of Utah, Europe, Scandinavia, and strong Pioneer stock. Roast Beef on Sundays, Corn Beef and cabbage, potatoes, and corn you eat like a typewriter.
I am from traveling in an Old Model T from Iowa City to Salt Lake City, a listening ear, surviving the Queens, UFO’s in Ogallala, Nebraska, and miles and miles of road traveled, back and forth across the Plaines.
I am from pictures, boots, clocks, and Lilliput Lane. But more importantly, I’m from compassion, determination, generosity, grace, quiet dignity, and learned minds.


Instructions:

I am from ________(specific, ordinary item), from _______________(specific, ordinary item-or brand name), and _____________ (an item you really love).

I am from the ___________________ (home description...adjective, sensory detail.)

I am from ______________ (plant, flower, natural item), the ____________ (plant, flower, natural detail).

I am from __________ (family tradition) and ____(family trait), from __________ (name of family member) and ______(another family name), and _____________ (family name).

I am from the ______ (description of a family personaliy traid) and _______
(another family personality trait).

I am from ________ (something you were told as a child) and _________ (another thing your were told as a child).

I am from ________________ (something you really believe in), from ___________________ (further description, if possible).

I'm from ___________ (place of birth and family ancestry), from ________ and _____________(two food items representing your family).

From the _____________________(specific family story about a specific person and detail), the __________(another detail), and the __________________(another detail about another family member).

I am from ____ (description of family pictures, mementos, archinves and several more lines indicating the worth of these).


Try it, it's fun!
Happy writing!
Lara

Greenhurst Elementary School Choir