Iroquois Hunting Lodge Poetry

After spending a day in the woods, Mrs. Harvey's students wrote an acrostic poem documenting their experience.   Please enjoy those poems and some pictures below!    
Having fun matters when you’re making a hunting lodge

Using our imaginations to pretend we are Native Americans

No other days will compare so good to this day

The hunting lodge is good to hunt for food

Iroquois are still here in this world

Native Americans never complained when they were working

Great listening appeared when Grizzly taught us about The Peace Maker

Little kids lasted 5 hours of non-stup running around

Once again we learned that we have a great attitude

Daybreaks barely every happened with the Native Americans

Goodness gracious I would not personally like to be a Native American

Everybody now know that distraction was not a thing back then.

By Claire

Hats on people

Under the immense trees

Nuts everywhere on the ground

The whale watcher

In the awesome woods

Not taking any breaks

Great lodge because it wasn’t too cold

Lucky time for us

Outside in the woods

During the day

Games like Double Ball and Catch the      

       Rabbit help the Iroquois

Excellent time outside

By Ben

                       Hard workers

Using their hands

Native Americans worked hard

Tenacity to never stop building

Into building

Not an easy job

Great at Hunting

Learning from their mistakes

Once lived by the school

Delicious dinner

Good at surviving

Everyone is caring

By Avery

Have a great learning experience                                        Having fun with friends
Under a pile of leaves                                                         Under the warmth of the lodge
Never ending singing                                                          Nuts on the ground
Too much cold air                                                               The leaves catch the rain water
I got really dirty from picking up leaves                             In the woods
Not too many animals seen (except fish)                            Nice and warm inside the lodge
Giggling while singing a working song                              Going outside

Lots of leaves, logs and lodges                                           Lots of fun
Once in a lifetime experience                                             Outside picking up leaves
Dead trees were everywhere                                               Doing "Chase the Rabbit"
Green in a lot of places                                                       Great big lodge
Everyone helped a lot.                                                         Exciting time going into the lodge

 
by Bella                                                                               by Sophia





How the Native Americans got messages when they were under attack
Using all the parts of the animal they killed
Never mess around in their culture if you're a boy or you'll have water dumped on your head
The tribes are mighty warriors
In their culture, a boy becomes a man when he turns nine
Never leave a man behind in battle or in general
Girls become women when they are married

Lodges are to easy to build and they should be able to fit your whole party
Only one person can be the chief out of the whole tribe
Do not interrupt a story teller when telling a story or they will start all over again or walk away
Girls settle arguments by tribes playing Double Ball
Everybody in the tribe has an important call to fill in

By Laela


  Hunting
oUr class learned
  Native Americans are awesome and strong
  Tribes: Seneca, Cayuga, Oneida, Onondaga and Mohawk
  It is not easy to pick up leaves
  Not very hard to play double ball
  Games like "Chase the Rabbit"                               Having lots of fun
                                                                                   Under lots of trees
 Lodge is what we built                                             Nice and warm
 Oneida was one of the smallish tribes                     Touching stuff the Native Americans made
 Don't say the Iroquois are not strong                       In a long house we made
 Games like Double Ball                                           Naming all the tribes
 Easy to learn SCOOM                                              Games like Double Ball and Chase the Rabbit  
                                                             
By Emma                                                                  Long Houses are huge
                                                                                  Onondaga, Onieda, Seneca, Mohawk and Cayuga
                                                                                  Double Ball is used to solve conflicts
                                                                                  Girls do a lot in the tribe
                                                                                   End of the trip on the bus

                                                                                  By Gianna