Of Haikus & Murder

This week at Howe, we were murderous and full of sensation. On Monday, we talked about beats, stomping and clapping our way through the 5-7-5 form of the haiku. After reading haikus about racial profiling and the wonders of being outside, from Jacqueline Woodson’s Brown Girl Dreaming, poets wrote about their own small moments of joy, fear, and peace. On Tuesday, we focused on the senses. Through a game of mafia, each student who met their demise was stricken by a different sense, from the taste of a poisonous Super Donut to the sound of a beat so fierce it led to a heart attack. With each passing, came a line of poetry. Please be careful, that poem is killer good.