Poetry Friday: An Hommage to My Co-Blogger’s Home State
The Official Poem of Indiana, which is written by Arthur Franklin Mapes:
“Indiana”
God crowned her hills with beauty,
Gave her lakes and winding streams,
Then He edged them all with woodlands
As the settings for our dreams.Lovely are her moonlit rivers,
Shadowed by the sycamores,
Where the fragrant winds of summer
Play along the willowed shores.
Click here to read the rest of the poem. Click here to go to A Year of Reading, which is where Poetry Friday is being hosted this week.
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I am a literacy consultant who has spent the past dozen years working with teachers to improve the teaching of writing in their classrooms. While I work with teachers and students in grades K-6, I'm a former fourth and fifth-grade teacher so I have a passion for working with upper elementary students.
I'm the author of Craft Moves (Stenhouse Publishers, 2016) and the co-author of Jump Into Writing (Zaner-Bloser, 2021), Welcome to Writing Workshop (Stenhouse Publishers, 2019), and Day By Day (Stenhouse, 2010).
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Good ol’ Google. I found my answer — Ohio does NOT appear to have a state poem. My students may need to do something about this…
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