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2016 Love #5 Student Poetry

Poem written by students J.M. and B.W.:

2016 Love

Love is a rose that is so beautiful but has thorns that can be devastating

These roses are beautiful but after awhile they end up dying

The meaning of love is not true anymore

Love is like a firing squad you never know when they are going to shoot

Love is like a minefield some make it through and some don't

When you think it is going well

That's when it all goes wrong

It not real anymore

Love has become a game that people play

It has become the most lethal force on earth

If you ever want to die fall in love and you’ll get killed

Love is like sour patch kids sour sweet gone  

It like an explosion it's unpredictable

And can go wrong at anytime

Yet people still fall for its trick

Poem written by students S.G. and N.S.:

2016 Love

I love you more than Taylor Swift likes breaking hearts
And even though our relationship gets a bit weak like spotify’s single
I’ll never stop chasing you like Marlin chases Nemo
No matter what happens I’ll always erm…. usually choose you over good cell reception
Because girl you’ll always be the C-3PO to my R2-D2
We have the type of relationship that becomes insta-famous
We’re the straightish version of Ellen and Portia
And I know i’m no Abel Tesfaye because i definitely call BEFORE half past five and talk way longer
I hope you never leave me like Zayn left 1D
My love for you is like a unhealthy gaming addiction, I can never seem to get enough levels
But even though we don’t always work out like 1D harmonizing I’ll love you
I love you so much I send you a “I angle bracket 3 u” text every night
But even though your dad dislikes me i’d still text you till way past bedtime
And someday I want to be able to kneel and ask you to be my forever bae
So just so you know my love’s not going anywhere like a nokia phone

Romeo and Juliet: 2016 Love #4 #IgniteLearningBCPS #EBHS

2016 Love by A.L. & C.X.

 I want to love you like 2016

                                                           

    Just because we’re loving little mad teens

Wanna put our anniversary date on my bio

Remembering you slide’n into my DMs try’n to hit me up

But all you ever do is care about your makeup  

But all I ever want to do is make up

I just wanna know about the love between us

And for you just to like my status

Girl you know I’ll always be one call away

Cause I really want you to stay

You’re the meaning of my 11:11

We should take this to the next level

let’s do that challenge

                                                                

Uh I want to tell you about 2016

You make my 2016

2016 Love by S.P.

I wanna love you like Steph loves Ayesha

Hitting the 3 in 2k17

I wanna love you like my grandma loves Dr.Phil

I wanna love you like a hunter loves meat

I wanna love you like my grandpa loves bojangles

I wanna love you like my sister loves Spongebob

I wanna love you like my sister loves her job

I wanna love you like the cavs loved that 3-1 comeback

I wanna love like Coaches love to yell

I wanna love you like a dog loves food

Time flies like a butterfly

I wanna love you like I love frosty flakes

2016 Love by C.C.

I love you like Steph loves Ayesha

I love you like the Cavs love the 3-1 comeback

I wanna love you like Seth’s grandma loves Dr. Phil

Love you like that green release

Love you more than Hillary loves Berney

I will love you 1000 times more than Ohio State loves beating Michigan

I love you a latte just like the girls love Starbucks

I love you more than Peyton loves retirement

I love you like Phelps loves his medals

I love you more than Vladimir Putin loves riding horseback shirtless

I love you like Kanye loves Kim

I love you like Seth loves Frosted Flakes

I wanna love you like Marty loves self lacing shoes

I love you like the Cubs love ending the curse

I love you more than yo momma loves Obama Care

Romeo and Juliet: 2016 Love #3 #ignitelearningbcps #ebhs

2016 Love by K.A. & A.L.

Be my Channing Tatum to my Jenna Dewan.

Be my Harley Quinn to my joker.

I just “can’t stop the feeling” with you.

Be like a white girl to my starbucks.

Be the netflix to my chill.

Be my Kanye to my Kim.

I want our love to be like Taylor and Tom.

Without your kisses I’ll be needing stitches.

Be my Trump to my America, I need you.  

Be my forever to my always.

Our love is warm like the hot chocolate in my yeti.

I hope I change the middle letter of your monogrammed jacket.

Our love is simply southern.

Our love is as big as Kylie Jenner’s’ lips.

Our love is as fly as the drones.

2016 Love by J.D. & D.D.

I want to love you like 2016

Love is in the air..

Everyone grab your gas masks

I wanna love you like A loves the pretty little liars

I want to love you like 2016

Don’t worry about talking to me in person

Just text or snapchat me

I want to love you like 2016

I’d love to hangout

But I gotta go watch netflix by myself

I want to love you like 2016

Even though it’s unlikely that the relationship will last over a week

I want to love you like 2016

Where if you really loved me you would have me in your instagram bio

I want to love you like 2016

We can be considered “talking” if you use the right emoji

Romeo and Juliet: 2016 Love #2 #ignitelearningbcps #ebhs

Poem by EBHS student B.

2016 Love

I want to love you like 2016, being able to

Talk in emojis that only we understand

I want to love you like 2016

Like Negan loves Lucille,

Like a teenager loves his phone

I want to love you like a new pair

Of Nike shoes, and

How a camper loves snipers

I want to be your Glenn to my Maggie,

Your Abraham to my Rosita(don’t forget Sasha and Holly)

I want to love you like a boy loves gamestop,

Like Glenn loves his dumpster

I want to love you like 2016<3

Poem by EBHS students G.R. & S.L.

2016 Love

How could we agree to separation?

Now my dreams are downing down another road.

You made my days depressing like a cloudy storm.

You made me want to look like Rihanna,

But now you made me think as if you were Drake.

Or Selena, and you were Justin.

Now all we can do is stalk each other's instagram,

And watch each othe'rs snapchat stories

To see if you found another.

All the nights I stayed up late for you

And when we met in halls and said hi,

But then end up running to the next class.

All of these memories ruined,

With the thought of you.

Now we drifted apart (like otters)

Time to see other people.

I fell for you knowing

We would never be more than friends.

Now we're just strangers passing casually.

Something, somehow, somewhere,

Went wrong…….

Romeo and Juliet Arcade Game

Note: Answers in ALL CAPS match questions in ALL CAPS.

Click here to play Romeo and Juliet PacMan.

Romeo and Juliet, Asia Samson, Plus 2016 Love 1 #IgniteLearningBCPS

My English I students have been reading Romeo and Juliet, and we have been discussing their thoughts about the following statements:

My parents know more about love and relationships than I do.
You should never disobey your parents.

The students have both agreed and disagreed with these statements and devised some interesting arguments for and against.

We also looked to the text and discussed these lines:

Juliet about the Nurse, in Act II, Scene v: 

"Had she affections and warm youthful blood,

She would be as swift in motion as a ball;

My words would bandy her to my sweet love,

And his to me:

But old folks, many feign as they were dead;

Unwieldy, slow, heavy and pale as lead."

Romeo to Friar Laurence, in Act III, Scene iii:

"Thou canst not speak of that thou dost not feel:

Wert thou as young as I, Juliet thy love,

An hour but married, Tybalt murdered,

Doting like me and like me banished,

Then mightst thou speak, then mightst thou tear thy hair,

And fall upon the ground, as I do now,

Taking the measure of an unmade grave."

Many of the students stated that it is difficult for people their parents' ages to understand what today's teens experience because, according to them, the world is much different compared to the world during their parents teens.

Since most of their parents are in their forties, I decided we should look at teenage love from the perspective of the 1990s.  We viewed the following poem, "90s Love" by Asia Samson:

Students were then asked to write about love in 2016.  They were encouraged to use allusion, simile, metaphor, hyperbole, etc..

The following is the poem submitted by A.L. and G.B.:

2016 Love

Just remember I'll always love you like 2016.

I want to love you like Joel and Moriah.  

Snapping while sitting right beside each other.

Thinking maybe I should text you I love you.

Instagram becomes our love life.

Pinterest becomes my heart felt ideas.

I want you to be the Jay Z to my Beyonce.

I want you to be the John to my Chrissy.

I want to love you like 2016.

You need to be the William to my Kate.

Watch Netflix till 2 a.m.

Wondering when you’ll call.

Thinking you need to be more sensitive to my feelings.

Buy me pretzels and ice cream.

You are the peanut butter to my jelly.

The ketchup to my mustard.

I wanna love you like 2016.

You can be the Luke to my Courtney.

I want you to be the Alex to my Sierra.

We’ll listen to songs that we both like.