"Where I'M From" - Template For Exercise In Class printable pdf download

"Where I'M From" - Template For Exercise In Class

“Where I’m from” - template for exercise in Class #1

(from poem by George Ella Lyon)

I am from ________(specific ordinary item), from ________(product name) and

____________.

I am from the _______ (home description... adjective, adjective, sensory detail).

I am from the _______ (plant, flower, natural item), the _______ (plant, flower, natural

detail)

I am from _______ (family tradition) and _______ (family trait), from _______ (name of

family member) and _______ (another family name) and _______ (family name).

I am from the _______ (description of family tendency) and _______ (another one).

From _______ (something you were told as a child) and _______ (another).

I am from (representation of religion, or lack of it). Further description.

I'm from _______ (place of birth and family ancestry), _______ (two food items representing

your family).

From the _______ (specific family story about a specific person and detail), the _______

(another detail, and the _______ (another detail about another family member).

I am from _______ (location of family pictures, mementos, archives and several more lines

indicating their worth).

Where I'm From (by George Ella Lyon)

I am from clothespins, from Clorox and carbon-tetrachloride.

I am from the dirt under the back porch. (Black, glistening, it tasted like beets.)

I am from the forsythia bush the Dutch elm

whose long-gone limbs I remember as if they were my own.

I'm from fudge and eyeglasses, from Imogene and Alafair.

I'm from the know-it-alls and the pass-it-ons, from Perk up! and Pipe down!

I'm from He restoreth my soul with a cottonball lamb and ten verses I can say myself.

I'm from Artemus and Billie's Branch, fried corn and strong coffee.

From the finger my grandfather lost to the auger,

the eye my father shut to keep his sight.

Under my bed was a dress box spilling old pictures,

a sift of lost faces to drift beneath my dreams.

I am from those moments-- snapped before I budded -- leaf-fall from the family tree.

Audio of poet reading:

"Where I'M From" - Template For Exercise In Class