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Introduction
Our house made our own collages with Amistad poems. We made them because we have been reading Amistad poems, and books. They were inspired by Ms.Edingers and  Elzabeth  Alexanders.
Our Poems
We made our Amistad poems based on Margru, the ship moving, and all different themes based on the ship. We typed them up on our [...]

” . . . Esperanza, do you remember the story of the phoenix, the lovely young bird that is reborn from its own ashes?”
Esperanza nodded. Abuelita had read it to her many times from a book of myths.
“We are like the phoenix,” said Abuelita.”Rising again, with a new life ahead of us.”
Right now in [...]

Introduction
Elizabeth Alexander — the great poet — came to our school. As you may know, she was the poet who read at the Inauguration because Obama chose her, to make a poem special for the great day. She had 3 weeks to work on it. She was inspired to right the Amistad poems she read [...]

I liked the Sarah Margru Kinson story, that our teacher Ms.Edinger wrote. The story in some parts was depressing, but unlike some slaves, she had pretty much a happy ending. I thought that when depressing parts happened, that they would be really touching, but the happy parts are really exciting because, normally your not [...]