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.
The fav thing
By Armanie T.
My favorite meal
is wings because
it is
spicy like the
sun
it is red
like blood.
The last time
I did eat
it was a
bouncy house for
a party.
Untitled
By Alexis
I like pizza
more than my
bed. It makes
me feel like
I am in heaven.
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