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The Sisters Grim is a book series written by Michel Buckley. In this book two sisters (Sabrina the older one and Daphne younger) have the sad tragedy of their parents being kidnapped. At the crime scene was their parent’s car with a red hand print in it. They are orphans until there grandma (who [...]

We wrote Amistad poetry inspired by Elizabeth Alexander. My poem was about Teme a little girl, and she got kidnapped. I wrote my poem first person. Here is my poem
Remember
I remember when the men came.
The way I tried to call my mothers name.
The way they put their hands over my mouth.
The way they hit me.
The [...]

Karen Hesse wrote Letters from Rifka using he own families stories. She interviewed he great Aunt Lucy about her experiences of immigration. She changed some of the details and names but as she wrote “But this story is, above all else, Aunt Lucy’s story.” She is using quotes of Pushkin at the beginning of each [...]

The story of Sarah Margru Kinson is abut a girl from Africa and she gets then on a boat to Havana to be a slave and then she go’s to America. Only my class got to read it. Right now it’s just a manuscript. I really liked reading about the story of Sarah Margru [...]

On Feb. 6th, 2009 Elizabeth Alexander came to our school and talked to the 4th grade in the morning and the 6th, 5th, and 4th grade in the afternoon.
She talked about her book of poems on the Amistad. She said she was inspired while she was walking in New Haven Green she wondered what happened [...]