6th Grade Students:
6th Graders finished reading The Woman Who Outshone the Sun. They took both this book as well as The Secret Footprints and compared/contrasted their messages. They chose a character from either book to illustrate and from that character's perspective, write a six word memoir. Many of these students are very talented artists!
7th Grade Students:
Using Julio Noboa Polanco's Identity as inspiration, students wrote their own comparison poem with an illustration/representation to go with it. In the poem, Polanco writes that he would rather be a weed than a flower because a weed is free and untouched among many other things. Students came up with their own comparison to write their own poem:
8th Grade students worked on their sunglasses collage inspired from Angela Shelf Medearis' poem Sunglasses. Students depicted how they are viewed on one side verses how they view themselves on the other. They accompanied these glasses with a haiku that they wrote conveying a fear of theirs.
