Where I'm From

Opening activity:  Poem: “Where I’m From”

Share model with class

Clarify any vocabulary

What do you notice about this poem?

Make lists

1. Things found in your house
2. Things you find outside your house in the yard, could be things in nature.
3. Members of your family or close family friends and details about each one
4. Sayings you hear frequently in your house.
5. Typical foods at your house.
6. Places where you keep your memories.
7. Articles associated with the work of family members.

Using your lists, create a poem, using the phrase “I am from”  or “I come from”  or another phrase.

Read around—share at least one line.