For our most recent session, Shoesmith considered ideas related to color. We read poems from The Heart of My Palm: Poems by African American Children [by David Adejouma and illustrated by Gregory Christie] and then collaborated as a group to compose 1st drafts of poems about BLACK. Enjoy!
Ms. Lehner
4th Grade
Why do people still have bad feelings about black?
Group 1
Black is beautiful
beautiful like butterflies
Black is awesome
awesome like the northern lights
awesome like chicken nuggets that are
absolutely delicious
Black represents the dirt that grows everything
Black is a song
Group 2 – 4th Grade
Black is music
the music of jazz, rap, hip hop, and snapping fingers
Black is water
in a deep sea
Black is life
Black is life
God is life
Black is amazing
amazing as flowers in bloom
Black is fantasy
a black fantasy book that sings
Black is culture
Black is people
Black is royalty
castles of gold, a royal palace for kings and queens
maybe you and I
Black is the universe
Black is generation
Black is infinity
Black is your imagination
listening to you
Black is people
Black is Us
