Gifted/Enrichment Language Arts at Springman Middle School

This page shares information on how the Boston University Favorite Poem Project will be realized at Springman Middle School.

“Poetry connects us with our deep roots, our evolution as an animal that created rhythmic language as a means of transmitting vital information across the generations. We need to communicate not only with our peers but our ancestors and descendants, and the arts of poetry, writing, print, digital media serve that communication. As the oldest of those arts, poetry in a deep-going way calls upon the very nature of human society, our interdependence upon one another not only in space but in time. We need the comfort and stimulation that this vital part of us gets from the ancient art.” –Robert Pinsky

Each day, we read a poem at the beginning of class to invoke that interdependence in our class community and discover poems that we love.