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Learning about poetry by making some 'Noise'

Ms. Becker’s fifth grade class. (Hillman/KSKA)
Ms. Becker’s fifth grade class. (Hillman/KSKA)

A couple times a week Emily Becker's 5th graders get to spend time apart from their 6th grade classmates at Airport Heights Elementary and focus on creative projects, like writing comic books about inventors. This week they learned about poetry and radio while making a lot of "Noise." Hear their rendition of the poem by Jessie Pope.

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Independent radio producer Jessica Cochran helped with the production.

Anne Hillman is a behavioral health clinician working in rural Alaska. Before going back to school for her Masters of Social Work, she covered social justice issues for Alaska Public Media and ran the multimedia and arts project Mental Health Mosaics with Out North.