~ St. Louis, Missouri ~ St. Louis, Missouri is an urban community in the Midwest. St. Louis City and the 12 counties in both Missouri and Illinois that make up the St. Louis Metropolitan Area give us a population of around 2.5 million people. The distance from St. Louis to Washington DC is 750 miles. The distance to the Missouri state capital in Jefferson City, MO is 110 miles. St. Louis is positioned 38.63 degrees north of the equator and 90.24 degrees west of the prime meridian. St. Louis elevation is 535 feet above sea level. St. Louis is in the Central Time zone.
Our class has been working on
different forms of poetry all year. We have also been learning about our community. This
on-line project allowed us to put the two together and write a poem about our community.
After reading Margaret Wise Brown's The Important Book, we wrote the following
class poem about St. Louis using the book's format. You can see more student poems at our class website.
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