Today, we read Ada Limon’s poem “How to Triumph Like a Girl.” It was very interesting to talk about the ways that the world might expect us to be one thing based on our identity, but we are actually a lot more complicated. Some kids shared how people didn’t expect girls to be good at sports or that their families have been judged for being from other countries. Please enjoy the wonderful poems the students wrote! (Again, lots of dwarf flying squirrels!)
I Can Be Fast
--Laith
I will be a lion.
I can fight a tiger.
I can have energy.
People will be scared of me.
Tigers can't defeat me.
What I want to be like as an animal
--Abhipsa
I like the rabbit best,
rabbits jump moon high
to see the sky.
I would
want to
be a rabbit
because sometimes
I am crazy or silly.
Rabbits
eat carrots.
And I do too.
