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This year in Edinger house we studied forced immigration. We learned that it is not right to take people away from their home and make them be slaves because of their heritage and color.

We read our teacher’s book called Africa Is My Home. It was about Sarah Margru Kinson, a girl on the slave ship Amistad. The slaves on the ship killed the people who stole them and then the slaves went to jail. They had a trial in America and America won. Then they were free. I learned a lot about slavery and the African culture in the book.

A member of our class’s dad is from Mali, Africa so this person brought in lots of cool African dolls, clothes and jewelry. I thought it was very cool.

We also had a poet come in and perform some of her poems. Her name is Natasha Trethewey. We wrote poems about people on the Amistad and then we performed them for Natasha. “Amistad in Spanish means friendship but that is just a saying because the ship is not friendly at all,” says one of my classmates.