In honour of Poetry Week, our 6ème (Y7) students attended a poetry workshop led by Cheryl Moskowitz, an acclaimed poet (2nd prize in the Hippocrates Award for Poetry and Medicine). The students focused on the theme of Multiculturalism and worked together to craft collaborative poems exploring this theme.
Here are the poems the classes wrote on the theme of Multiculturalism:
6A - Students wrote a cinquain poem (5 line poem with specific syllable number on each line)
Title: "Multiculturalism"
Multi (2 syllables / subject)
Melting colours, (4 syllables / what it looks like)
Melting pot of races, (6 syllables / action - purpose)
Many diamonds in the bright sky, (8 syllables - feelings / emotions)
Many (2 syllables - echo)
6B: Students wrote a cinquain poem (5 line poem with specific syllable number on each line)
"To be or not to be"
Belong
Now shine, now grow
Shall I stay, Shall I go?
Flying like a bird, I return
To home
6C: A patchwork of different words and phrases students gave around the word "Home" put back to back.
Title "Home"
I smell the toxic air
Of the long avenue
On Islington/Highbury
on a morning in summer.
I am with my family,
my 8 gerbils, my friends, my brother and my little brother crying,
because he can't do his rubik's cube.
The music is pounding while I play with my family,
I know I can be myself with my friends.
When I close my eyes, I see a little and not rich country,
With lots of wild animals.
The sound of the ocean breeze in the night
With waves
And the burning thin sand.
I am gardening with grandma.
The birds are chirping
And the cows are mooing.
I feel the stony wall of Georgia,
And my grandmother is singing rap on the other side.
I can smell dumpling pork chops.
I feel the warmth of my house
I remember the sweet sticky baklava with pistachio,
Eating it in the snow.
I remember eating French cheese with marzipan ,with a bit of lasagna,
I can remember the smell of washing powder in a tall building in Singapore,
And I can remember basketball courts,
Sports,
My bed,
and home.