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Greetings greetings! For our second week with Waters 6th graders, we talked about our commonalities: each student table came up with the longest possible list of things they have in common (such as being humans, being 6th graders, having skin, reading books) before reading José Olivarez’s “I Walk Into Every Room And Yell Where The Mexicans At.” This poem unveils a number of topics, namely a speaker who looks for home wherever he goes.

We didn’t have time to finish poems for our second session, but I’m looking forward to reading their poems after the Thanksgiving break!

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I’M FROM THE CITY LIGHTS / STREAMING OUT IN THE NIGHT / AND HUGE SKYSCRAPERS / TOWERING OVER THE LAKE – MELISSA E., 7TH GRADE POET