Summer

Do you have time to get away with friends or family? 

These can be fun moments that create lasting memories-- like the ones Charles Water describes in "Fishing Trip" in The Poetry Friday Anthology for Middle School.

Service

Did you know that teens volunteer 2.4 billion hours annually and that is worth. $34.3 billion to the US economy?

It may start out as an assignment or a service project, but the intangible benefits are even bigger.

Here's Janet Wong's poem, "Community Service," for The Poetry Friday Anthology for Middle School.

Eviscerate

Need a new SAT word to learn? 
How about EVISCERATE. 
Read this poem for the vocabulary AND the puns!

Michael Salinger wrote this poem, "Eviscerate," for The Poetry Friday Anthology for Middle School.

Loss

This poem, "He Was So Little" by David L. Harrison (from The Poetry Friday Anthology for Middle School) gives us words for the difficult feelings we experience when a much-loved pet is gone. 

Love

Just in time for Valentine's Day, here is a poem from The Poetry Friday Anthology for Middle School. It's about love, but with a warning tucked inside. 

"Advice to Rapunzel" by Eileen Spinelli. Food for thought...

Fear

Time to restart, and rethink. What are we afraid of? Let's fight those fears!

Here's a downloadable poem postcard featuring Sara Holbrook's poem, "Fear Factor," from The Poetry Friday Anthology for Middle School.

And here are the Take 5 activities that go with this poem.