Learning about poetry by making some ‘Noise’

Ms. Becker's fifth grade class. (Hillman/KSKA)
Ms. Becker’s fifth grade class. (Hillman/Alaska Public Media)
A couple times a week Emily Becker’s 5th graders get to spend time apart from their 6th grade classmates at Airport Heights Elementary and focus on creative projects, like writing comic books about inventors. This week they learned about poetry and radio while making a lot of “Noise.” Hear their rendition of the poem by Jessie Pope.

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Independent radio producer Jessica Cochran helped with the production.

Anne Hillman is the healthy communities editor at Alaska Public Media and a host of Hometown, Alaska. Reach her at ahillman@alaskapublic.org. Read more about Anne here.

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