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Wednesday, May 3, 2017 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
Poet visit a hit with Sisters students Outlaws lacrosse
defeats Burns
By Erin Borla
Correspondent
Sisters’ elementary and
middle school students
heard former Children’s Poet
Laureate Kenn Nesbitt speak
last week. Nesbitt, brought to
Sisters by a grant through the
Sisters-based Roundhouse
Foundation, spoke at four
assemblies designed for dif-
ferent age groups this past
Tuesday and Wednesday.
Nesbitt, a published
author for the last 15 years,
who now lives in Spokane,
Washington, travels exten-
sively throughout the United
States and even internation-
ally discussing poetry and
writing with students.
“Annually, I do about 60
visits to schools mostly in
the U.S.,” he said. “I also
do between 30 and 50 visits
online via Skype with differ-
ent schools and classrooms
every year.”
In addition to the assem-
blies, Nesbitt spoke at a par-
ent workshop on Tuesday,
April 28, at the Deschutes
Public Library and pro-
vided a writing workshop for
fourth-and fifth-graders and
a publishing workshop for
sixth-graders.
Nesbitt’s poems are
known for their humor and
irreverence. Even the young-
est kids got a chance to expe-
rience his exuberance at the
assembly especially designed
for ages pre-kindergarten to
second grade.
The preschool students in
Sisters Park & Recreation’s
Community Preschool housed
at Sisters Elementary School
got a chance to sit in on one
of Nesbitt’s assemblies.
“He was funny!” said
Valerie Selig, lead teacher in
the preschool. “He was very
much in tune with the kids
in our age group. We were
impressed he wrote a poem
during the assembly with
kids just calling out words
By Rongi Yosd
Correspondent
PHOTO BY ERIN BORLA
Poed Kenn Nesbidd visided Sisders schools lasd week, and sparked
excidemend aboud wriding and reading in local youngsders.
— definitely the best assem-
bly this school year!”
Within each assembly
Nesbitt had students work
together to create a silly
poem. But once their poem
was finished in the assem-
bly — he told them it wasn’t
really finished. They revised
it a few times as a group,
changing words, creating
new rhymes and adding allit-
eration. Nesbitt encouraged
students to work with their
teachers after the assembly
on the group poem to make it
even better.
“I liked the piece he added
about revision to the work-
shop,” said sixth grade lan-
guage arts teacher Becky
Aylor. “Although the poem
was ‘fine’ on the first go-
round, it became great after
multiple revisions.”
Throughout all of his
speeches he discussed poetry
and wrote poems with stu-
dents and he shared infor-
mation about writing as a
profession as well as pub-
lishing, including how to
self-publish.
“There are several stu-
dents taking his self-publish-
ing tool very seriously,” says
Aylor. “Poems can be about
anything. I think students for-
get sometimes how much fun
writing can be — both in and
out of class.”
Nesbitt has found that
his style is helpful in getting
even the most reluctant read-
ers to read and enjoy reading.
“That’s the most reward-
ing part for me,” he said.
“Getting kids who don’t oth-
erwise like to read to sud-
denly discover that they love
to read. It’s tricking them into
thinking that reading is fun
and writing is easy — and
they can do it, too.”
One Sisters Middle School
student asked him what was
the hardest part of being a
writer.
N e s b i t t ’s r e s p o n s e :
“Finding a pencil.”
When the match-up is
even, the Outlaws lacrosse
team can deliver.
Sisters traveled to Burns
on Thursday, April 27,
to match up against the
Highlanders — a team that
is much closer to them in
size and ability than most
of the opponents they have
faced this year. The Outlaws
walked away with a 10-5
victory.
It was not an official
game, as Burns had to cancel
their season due to low num-
bers, but Sisters and Burns
kept the game on the sched-
ule so both teams could get in
some good playing time. The
Highlanders played with 12
players and the Outlaws had
15.
Gator Haken scored
three goals for the Outlaws,
and Trey Stadeli, Bennett
Lewis, Jared Richerson, Jude
Kokesh-Carhart and Tyler
Friend each scored one.
Casey Warburton had
eight saves in the box.
“It was good for the team
to play against a team of more
equal ability, and not a school
that’s so much bigger than us,
like most games we play,”
said Coach Paul Patton.
Two days earlier, the
Outlaws matched up against
Bend High School, and lost
the contest 19-1. Sisters had
to play with just 14 players,
as six were out due to injury,
illness, or grade issues.
The Outlaws competed
hard the entire game, but
were up against a bigger and
more skilled team.
Kokesh-Carhart scored
the Outlaws’ lone goal off
an assist from Noah Keeton.
Sisters won eight face-offs
and got off nine shots in the
game
Patton said, “With so
many guys out, our young
and inexperienced players got
a lot of opportunity to get bet-
ter. We continue to lower our
turnover numbers each game,
which is good.”
The Outlaws were to play
at Corvallis on Tuesday,
May 2. On Saturday, May 6,
the squad will play at home
in Reed Stadium against
Southridge.
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