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...poems, and where children could benefit from "acquired tastes." Instead, Koch taught at P.S.61 on Manhattan's lower East Side, where more than half the kids are black or Puerto Rican. And his results--at least those that were published--are impressive. For example, Koch asked a fourth grader to translate one sense into another and she wrote...
...would read in one class poems written in another. He noticed that P.S.61 was establishing its own literary tradition--an institutional salon of sorts. Thus a misspelled word triggered Koch's introduction to a metaphor. A child wrote "A swam of bees," instead of a "swarm." A first grader's poem: "I used to be a fish/But now I am a nurse," inspired a whole series of poems describing physical transformation like this...
...wasn't always happy, and not constantly productive. There was a lot of tension--not terrible but still recognizable--that Koch never even suggests as possible. But two poems in particular were outstanding: they showed sensitivity and a certain playfulness with words. Both were written by Laura, a sixth grader...
Koch gives so much credit to the children's awareness of writing that at one point in Rose, where Did You Get That Red? he claims a sixth grader's poem written in response to William Carlos Williams "shows not only William's attention to the beauty of small and supposedly unbeautiful things, but also his way of making the poem, as it goes along, a physical experience of discovery for the reader." It's hard to imagine a sixth grader intentionally attempting to evoke such a sophisticated response. It's like equating a crayon drawing of a cow with...
...asked students, section men and the course grader to pass the word on to people in other Houses," he said...