Shakespeare's Song of the Witches

After reading the "Song of Witches" from Macbeth, students wrote their own Halloween recipes.

3rd grade 115

Alejandro H.
Charm of Powerful Ponies

Double, double pony bubble
Double ponies double onies
Tronies ponies double beanie
Red ponies bad ponies
Ponies dumb ponies
Bad bad ponies
You are too bad ponies
Ponies, ponies what are you doing?

Jorge B.
Charm of powerful math that blows up your head

Double, double tail and trouble
Yellow souls and pony legs bubble
Ears of rabbit, melt and die
Head of condor and eggs of swan,
Tail of dragon, poison of Bashmaster
Bacon of pig and skin of bear,
eyes of hedgehog now boil and bubble
sink and melt, cool it off with
the blood of bears.

Isabella B,
Charm of Powerful Hate

Double, double bubble boil
make it hot make it steam
filll it with hate and horror
make it mean make it mad
fill it iwht double crossing,
bad making stuff
horrible things that you can not imagine
now do it here, make it extreme
of horror and mad stuff
now it is done for my stunt to come.

4th 306

Martin B.

Fill the grill
with a skull found
at fall and a dogs
tail that never fails
and a boy just
for day but not
all because the
pot will fall
now add flame
and this isn't
a game. Bad
luck if worn
by a duck.


Adrian G.

Double double cause death make the
ghost come from the west. Kill them
right in the chest, add socks and the
chicken pox. Make this spell bad, make
it sad with cats and bats, dark clouds
make it sparkle, some bones and ice cream
cones. With cars and chocolate bars.

Cesar S.

Double double pants on fire
Double double house on fire
Double double peanut butter and
jelly burning. And a potion
that makes you mean, If you
say bloody mary three times in the mirror
she would come out and kill
you to pieces.

I am ... Poems

Students at Burroughs wrote poems using anaphora, or repetition of the beginning of the line, after reading M. Scott Momaday's "The Delight Song of Tsoai-Talee"

3rd grade 105

Felipe D.
I am a tiger in the water
I am a tiger going home
I am a little tiger in my bed
I am a tiger going to my friend
I am a tiger in my friends house
I am a tiger eating cake
I am a tiger so full of cake
I am a tiger in the flow
I am a tiger going back to me
I am a tiger going to sleep

Sienna J.
I am the light of the moon
I am a shining rose
I am a beautiful white bird that shines in the sky when it flies
I am a piece of nature that flies in the sky
I am the thunder that roars and has strong lightening
I am the light of the sun
I am a piece of snow that sparkles
I am a star that shines
I am the wind that blows everything
I am the rain that hits the ground real hard
I am rhyming poetry

4th grade 306

Stephanie H.
I am the green panda eating bamboo
I am a star looking into the moon
I am the popcorn that goes into your stomach
I am a mango waiting to be eaten
I am a pencil writing poems
I am the one that makes you show your teeth
I am a Joey getting dizzy from all of the jumping
I am the light that light sup your house
I am all that comes to life
I am all that I want to be


Carlos B.
I am a zebra racing with other zebras.
I am a lion with a big jump.
I am an eagle flying through the bright sky.
I am a kangaroo jumping into the nice sky.
I am a sky scraper scraping the sky.
I am an eraser erasing all your mistakes.
I am a light bulb lighting up the darkness.
I am a fawn jumping.
I am a building letting in people.
I am a zebra with yellow and white stripes.
I am a bird chirping all around.
I am a lion chewing meat.
I am a tree growing up.
I am a sign telling people to go.


Adrian G.
I am the flame inside a wolf's heart.
I am the smallest dark trapped in a star.
I am the wolf howling in the twilight.
I am the wind blowing the breeze.
I am the cloud that makes lightening in the dark.
I am a light that shines above the clouds.
I am the tiger leaping on the mountains.
I am the peace that gives pride.
I am the snake lurking in the tall grass.
I am the light that gives life.

4th Grade 002

Tanisha J.
I am the pink monkey throwing orange bananas
I am the shade of a witch flying in the air
I am the witch combing my green hair
I am the girl trying to go see Jonas brothers
I am the pretty star shining sometimes
I am the bird with pretty feathers
I am the Gabrielle on high school musical
I am very nice to other people
I am walking desks

Teresa M.
I am a tree with no leaves
I am a cluster of stars up and up
I am a lollipop
I am me
I am a lion tiger
I am a fish bow
I am in a both earth
I am a letter who is good
I am a horse who gives birth
I am hungry.


Daniel S.
I am… a birds wing.
I am… the heart of the monkey
I am… the reason Hitler died.
I am… a goose in the sky.
I am… a buffalo in the plain.
I am… the breeze of the winter.
I am… the coating of a bear.
I am… the sun when its out.
I am… the bible in gods hands.
I am… the plane in the sky.
I am… the degree of the sun.
I am… the M in Mexico.
I am… the river breeze.
I am…vivid in the light.