Sunday, May 19, 2019

Poetry Slam

Christopher's class has been working for a couple months on a poetry unit. They've written countless poems, studied different forms and techniques, and read a lot of examples of poetry. Today, they presented a selection of their poems at the Westport Coffee House. It was great to hear the poetry of the kids and to see them get up on stage a present their work. Here are Christopher's selected poems...

The first poem is called "My Story" and followed a form where they had to fill in different "answers" to questions about things in their lives...

This next poem is an acrostic called "Hope..."

This one is called "The Reason" and is a cinquain about loss. Yes we have a deep child but all the kids had to write about loss...

Christopher's class is participating in the KC Writing Project, which is a program that connects students from different Kansas City neighborhoods. It pairs students as "pen pals" where they write to each other about their different experiences. They also learn a lot about the racial divides that exist in our city and they learn and discuss topics like race, bias, prejudice and other important issues. Most importantly, though, they learn about the similarities we all have as human beings. This poem is a series of haikus reflecting on these discussions...

"The Neighborhood" also reflects on the KC Writing project and is another acrostic that Chris chose to read...
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