Brainstorming Sheet

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Name_______________________

“Where I’m From Poem”

Poem should include descriptive details about certain aspects of your life—things that you are familiar with or grew up with (culture, language, food, neighborhood, family, friends, home, hometown, home state, etc.

Poem should include lines that start with “I am from…”

Poem should have at least 20 lines

Some ideas to get you started:

Items found around the house (bobby pins, stacks of newspapers, grandma’s teeth, coffee mugs

Items found in the yard (dog bones, hoses coiled like green snakes, oak trees)

Items found in the neighborhood (the corner grocery, street signs, parks)

Names of relatives, especially those from the past (Grandma, Aunt, Great-Uncle)

Sayings (If I’ve told you once…Make your bed…Turn that music down)

Names of foods or dishes from family dinners (meatloaf, macaroni and cheese)

“Where I’m From” Brainstorming - Use these prompts to get some ideas that you might want to add into your own poem

Favorite Foods:	Types of trees or flowers in my yard:
Hobbies:	Games I played as a child:
Musice I Listen To:	Two Good Memories:
What do I remember my parents doing when I was a child?:	Two Sad Memories:
Name two friends:	Memories of Church/School:
My Mother Yelled at me this:	One thing about a grandparent:

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