Where I'm From Poem Template
Freshman Writing Seminar SELF DESCRIPTION Bronx High School of Science
NAME:_______________________________________________ PERIOD:____
DO NOW: Write your autobiography in 8-10 words—avoid unnecessary words (i.e. extra prepositions like “the”). _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
AIM:_____________________________________________________________________________________
DIRECTIONS: With your group, reread the following poem out loud together and answer the following questions:
1) Identify (circle) examples of figurative language and what they represent to you.
2) Describe the speaker in the poem based on the clues he/she is giving you.
3) Interpret the poem’s meaning. Write your responses in the space to the right of the poem.
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. _____________________________________________
SEE BACK
Last Name, First __________________________________
Where I'm From Poem Template
DIRECTIONS: Write your own ``Where I’m From’’ poem, incorporating your knowledge about your name. Use the template below to get started. Copy the finished product on a separate sheet I will collect tomorrow.
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) ________________________________________________________ (connection to self)
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 anecdote 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 and archives) __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ (several more lines indicating their worth).
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