This week we read and discussed Langston Hughes piece My People. We talked about the communities and identities we belong to, and how we can celebrate them. We also explored the list poem form and students had the choice to play with that , or use a structure of their choosing. Enjoy this weeks poems!
My People
Axel T
Cookers, and directors,
Teachers and even artists
All of those are my people
Authors and librarians
Constructions workers and athletes
Cleaners and sweepers
and waiters and managers.
All around Pilsen
Hooper and QB’s
Pitchers and goalies
Newborns and toddlers, and
singers and rappers.
All around Chicago
Millionaires and rich
gamers and happiness
patients in hospitals
and nurses with the ill
All of this is a few of my people!
Go Lions!
Airies
We’re weird yet we’re
our own little
cheer. Everyone and
everything will pull gravity
towards us.
We love and share,
we paint the skies
let them know
we are near
and not leaving
It doens’t matter what you look
like, or how we
act.
At the end of the day
we care for one each other,
we don’t add gas to the
fire, we’d rather let it
be put out.
We cheer in our “normal”
skin
But what is normal?
Go, go, go lions!
Go Lions!
We are brave and the
rage!
Go Lions
Go, Go,
Go Lions!
