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On Wednesday February 4th we got a historical fiction book. The book I got is called The Captive which is about a boy who is kidnapped. I really like it because It reminds me off the story of Olaudah Equiano. It’s really good historical fiction because the author sets the time and [...]
On Monday, February 9th, our class made poems about the Amistad. The Amistad was a cargo that held slaves. The poems were inspired by Elizabeth Alexander when she came to our school and read her poem from America Sublime.
On Friday February 9, Elizabeth Alexander came to our school to talk to us about poetry. She told us she was inspired to write about the Amistad when she was walking down the New Haven Greene and she started to think about who had been here 200 years ago. I thought it was really amazing that the [...]
For the past few weeks we have been reading Africa is My Home: The Story of Sarah Margru Kinson by my teacher Ms.Edinger. The story is about a girl who is pawned by her father and put on the Amistad which is a cargo that held many slaves; which as illegal because you [...]
On Thursday, January 29th there was a play called Oliver. It was about a orphan named Oliver Twist who gets kicked out of the orphanage he lives in and gets adopted by a shopkeeper named Mr. Sowerberry to work for him. Later after that he gets into a fight and runs away. He meets a [...]