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My favorite meal

24 Feb 2022

The students at Nixon Elementary reminisced about their favorite meals and wrote poems inspired by Kwame Alexander’s “Fried Chicken.” They also reviewed how to create similes in their poems to describe their favorite foods. […]

I Feel Like…

17 Feb 2022

Nixon 4th and 5th grade after-school students wrote poems inspired by Francisco X. Alarcón’s “On Monday I Feel Like a Dragon/El lunes me siento como un dragón.” As a group we continued learning about […]

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