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I recently read a book called The King of Mulberry street by Donna Jo Napoli. The King of Mulberry Street is an amazing historical fiction book. It starts out with a boy saying, “I woke up to mamas singing in the kitchen.” I think that this book started out nicely and how [...]

I studied the Amistad and Sarah Margru. Eventually I did a poem about Sarah Margru’s adventure on the Amistad. I did a poem and then I put it above my collage. My poem is fiction so Sarah Margru didn’t really think the things that I wrote but she probably did feel it. [...]

This year at my school the fourth grade got the privilege to see Elizabeth Alexander speak. She read us poems about the Amistad and how she was inspired by walking in New Haven Green where she knew that the Amistad captives were held. I loved the Amistad poems.
She also spoke about the inauguration [...]

I read a story about a girl named Sarah Margru Kinson. My teacher wrote the story and she told us to go to a blog that had the story. Sarah Margru Kinson was one of the only slaves that escaped from being a slave. I loved how it described the nature of Africa and how [...]