If your students write using this lesson, and you want to send us a powerful example, we'll consider publishing it on this page. Help us celebrate one of your student writers while inspiring other writers from around the world who use this prompt. Contact us at publish@writingfix.comif you have an inspired student sample to share.
Three Elementary Student Example Poems:
Free at last! by Chase, fifth grade writer
American
Black Men
Free at Last
Emancipation Proclamation Discrimination Nation
Free At Last
White Men
Freedom
Martin’s Words of History by Keara, fifth grade writer
Freedom
Black man
white man free
At last free together
Forever this time
Free at
LAST!
A Middle School Example:
Change! by Maggie, eighth grade poet
Injustice
Brutality, Crippling
Segregation, Discrimination, Hatred
I Have A Dream!
Liberty, Equality, Togetherness
Momentous, Condition
Justice
High School Student Example Being Sought:
Contact us at publish@writingfix.com if you have a high quality student sample to share with us. If you can help us obtain a digital photo of the student writer and a signed permission slip from the student's parents, we will send you a free resource for your classroom.
