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This is a poem about slavery that I wrote myself. I based it on poems that were written Elizabeth Alexander. I wrote several drafts before my final copy.

At the Dalton School Monica Edinger’s 4th class read works of historical fiction. I thought that my book, The Captive was a good work of historical fiction because it had real objects from that time a flute carved from wood and a gold weight. It also has real people such as Paul Cuffe. It also [...]

The story of Sarah Margru Kinson by Monica Edinger is an amazing story of a girl taken into slavery. She came to America on the Amistad. I felt that it was sad and wrong to take people away from there home just for them to work for you. They were mistreated and illegally captured. [...]

          On Friday February sixth, Elizabeth Alexander came to the Dalton school to talk about her poems. She first did a session with only the fourth graders. Then Professor Alexander did a session with the fourth, fifth, and sixth graders. She talked about her poem’s in “Ms.Crandall’s School For Young Ladies And Little Misses Of Color” Ms.Crandall was a [...]

       On Thursday January 29th, the Dalton middle school performed the musical OLIVER TWIST. It was an amazing performance considering that they were middle school students!!! In some parts the performers sung a bit off tune bit that made it sound a bit more realistic. Overall it was an incredible show and I [...]