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Sarah Margru Kinson was born in Mendland, West Africa. Her life was wonderful until she was nine years old, when her father traded her for rice to a white man. The deal was when the African people had enough rice to pay the withe man back they would trade back, but before they had enough [...]
A few days after Elizabeth Alexander visited Dalton, my class started writing Amistad poems of our own. My inspiration was from when Elizabeth Alexander reminded us that there were other people on the boat not just Cinque. I was going to do a poem about Cinque but then I decided to make it about a [...]
In class we are studying Historical Fiction so we each got to pick a historical fiction book. I chose Esperanza rising by Pam Ryan. These are some reasons it is a great book. The opening sentence is wonderful, “our land is alive, Esperanza,” said Papa, taking her hand as they walked through the gentle [...]
On 2/6/09 Elizabeth Alexander came to the Dalton school to speak about her poetry. The main focus was on her Amistad epic and her book called Ms.Crandall’s School for young women and little misses of color. Ms.Crandall’s School for young women and little misses of color is about a teacher named Ms. Crandle who ran [...]