Fill Our Halls and Our Hearts with Poetry!
Sacred Heart Schools Celebrates
National Poetry Month 2020
We invite students and their families, teachers, and staff to participate in any or all of the following projects, which celebrates Poetry Month
(Poetry Month for Sacred Heart will be: TBD)
Fill our halls with our favorite poetry! Due TBD or before: (*see how to earn bonus points for Red or White Team!)
Poems are to be typed or clearly hand written on a regular 8” x 11½” size sheet of paper. The paper should include name and grade of student/faculty/staff submitting the poem, title of the poem, author of the poem and be turned in to your teacher, advisor, or Dr. Sharp!
What do students (faculty and staff too!) need to do?
- Choose and then type up or write neatly your favorite poem and give to your teacher or Dr. Sharp no later than April 26. Be sure your name is on the back of the poem.
What teachers can do to help?
- If it fits with a class project or your current curriculum, please encourage students to participate
- Collect poems and turn them in to Dr. Sharp
What will happen with the poems?
- They will fill our halls for National Poetry Month (April-May)
- Each person who shares a poem will earn 10 points* for their Red/White Team
*25 points if turned in before April 11th!
Poems of the Day – Original Poetry Writing Project
Due TBD
We invite students, faculty and staff to write/share their own original poems, which will be entered into a contest to be chosen as “Sacred Heart Schools Poem of the Day” and read aloud during the various events (lunch, assembly, homeroom/advisory, and Gallery Night) throughout the month of April and early May.
What do students (faculty and staff, too!) need to do?
- Share one of your favorite poems, which you have written. Poems are to be typed or clearly hand written on a regular 8” x 11½” size sheet of paper. The paper should include name and grade of student/faculty/staff submitting the poem and title of the poem. Give to your teacher or Dr. Sharp no later than April 26!
What teachers can do to help?
- If it fits with a class project or your current curriculum, please encourage students to participate/share something that they have already written
- Collect poems and turn them in to Dr. Sharp
What will happen with the poems?
- Selected Poems of the day will be read out loud at various times in April and May, including lunch, division assemblies, homeroom/advisory, and Gallery Night.
- Each person who shares an original poem will receive 100 points for their Red/White Team. Submissions made before April 11th will earn 125 points!
