If you wanted to cover some short stories and poems in middle school

[conuly]

which ones would you pick? Public domain preferred, but if there's a super great anthology out there, I'm good with that too.

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[conuly]

And "You are not (positive quality), exactly" as a starter could be an interesting exercise, if you have them try writing poetry.

I don't know if I could do that.

When I was in high school, my ineffective English teacher assigned us to write poems in the style of Sonnet 130. He might have had the good sense to remind everybody not to write them towards actual people. You can see where this is going, I'm sure. He couldn't, but then, he wasn't a terribly good teacher. At the bare minimum he should've read the damn things before letting people read them aloud - or stopped them before it went too far.

So, the whole thing gives me flashbacks.