These poems begin exactly as you would imagine—as LISTS! List poems are also known as catalog poems , and a most famous example is Walt Whitman’s “I Hear America Singing." In this case, 9th grade students took collections of ideas and turned them into poems. As a result, we end up with titles such as
“Things to do While Trying to Fall Asleep”
“Never Run with Scissors”
“Things I should not have done”
“Things a child tells their mom”
“Home”
And lines such as "Don’t sit on your sister”
“throw a bubble wrap soiree”
“Don’t tie up your sister”
“AHH, IT’S A BEE!”
“Never never never ever die before I do!”
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