After reading "Interview," students created their own poetry using this as a model.
Where is your home
My parents house, where everyone is welcome
Where is your home
My grandparents house when my parents and brother are in the hospital
Where's your home
Universal studios where i feel connected to
Where's your home
The hospital where i spend my weekends because my brother has cancer
by 8th grade
Where is your home?
in the house I’ve lived in since i was born
Where is your home?
i went to Chicago and didn’t recognize the people
Where is your home?
my house has raised me to be the person i am today
by 8th grade
Where is your home?
With my parents at the first
Street house
Where is your home?
With my cousins on hope street
Where is your home?
Somewhere in the
Woods by Silver lake
Where is your home?
In my mom’s house in topeka
Where i feel alone
Where is your home?
With my cousins in st.marys
acknowledged and loved
Where is your home?
With my cousins and anyone
That respects me
Where is your home?
I look forward to see that
nowhere and everywhere
Is my home
by 8th grade
Where is your home?
in my parent’s house
where i’m never seen.
Where is your home?
the front yard where
I play with siblings.
Where is your home?
the place it took me
5 years to be comfortable.
Where is your home?
On the field where i spend most of my time.
working hard, smart, and fast.
Where is your home?
the place I spend time thinking, working, and hanging with friends.
Where is your home?
the calming sounds of forests and the mountain tops
by 8th grade
Where is your home?
I grew up in a place
Where everyone knows me. It
Never changes. It is always the same.
Where is your home?
My family all got along. We
Barely had fights. We always ate
Food together, even when
Tori moved out.
Where is your home?
My dad was uninvited from
everything. No one likes him for what he
did. But they forgot I was affected
by his actions too. Did they
forget about me?
Where are you from?
My family stopped checking
Up on me. They knew the exact response
I would give them. I still love them
They love me.
by 8th grade
where is your home?
in that different colored house
with bright christmas lights in which one year
never made it up
where is your home?
in that green house across the alley
where everyone would go to eat
and drink with each other
where is your home?
in the room full of mirrors and barres on the wall
with pointe shoes all around, stinking up the room
but no complaints go around
by 8th grade
Where is your home?
In my new house my parents moved us into
Where is your home?
My home is in branson where we take our family vacations.
Where is your home?
My home is at the cemetery where we visit my uncle and my great grandma.
by 8th grade
Where is your home?
In my parents house
I have to share a room with my brother
Where is your home?
I have a house where people want me
There and love me
Where is your home?
Where people are welcome
And others are loved.
by 8th grade
Where is your home?
In one of the bedrooms
of my childhood home
When I used to live
Where is your home?
In the room where
it has taken me 2 years
to hang up my pictures on the walls
Where is your home?
My dads hometown here my first home still sits
Where is your home?
My moms hometown where i spend most of my summers
Where nobody knows my name but i know their names
by 8th grade
Where do you feel comfort?
Not with some of those
I am closest to
a lot of the time.
Where do you feel comfort?
By myself
all alone in the quiet
for a while.
Where do you feel comfort?
In the peacefulness
of my room in
The dark.
Where do you feel comfort?
In the quietness of my mind
thinking about life
for a while.
by 8th grade
Where is your home?
In the yard where I spent most of my time playing, having fun.
Where is your home?
Where I stay in my room not wanting to go out.
Where is your home?
Where I can spend time with my family.
With my pets.
With my friends.
by 8th grade
where is your home?
my mom and dad live together.
where is your home?
i have two houses now. I go to my mom’s and my dad’s. i like seeing both of them. they don’t like each other.
where is your home?
my mom met someone. he lives with us now. my dad moved to a new trailer park. the new guy is fine.
where is your home?
my mom keeps moving. my dad stays in the same spot. i’m tired of packing.
where is your home?
i keep a 50/50 schedule. my home is at my dad’s. i want to go home.
where is your home?
we moved again at my mom’s. maybe it’ll make things better. it didn’t. i still want to go home.
where is your home?
my home is at my dad’s. i want to stay at home.
by 8th grade
Who is your family?
Every Sunday after church,
All the food we eat,
Yes that's my family.
Who is your family?
The day that came,
When my family left,
and they didn’t come back.
Who is your family?
Every Thursday,
Every Holiday,
Every Special Event,
That's where my family is.
by 8th grade
Where is your home?
At home i feel welcome in my room
Anywhere else in that place
That I live. I feel unwelcomed.
Where is your home?
When im with my family
They help me feel free. Like I can
do anything.
Where is your home?
When I enter where I live not were my home is
I feel tired and dejected.
Where is your home?
I hear Tego Calderon and feel
peace in my heart. So I know I'm finally.
Home.
by 8th grade
Where is your home?
My home is where my family stays.
Where we keep memories alive.
It's even the place where I first felt that spark.
Where is your home?
At a studio, with mirrors, bright lights, and Ballet bars.
The hobby that I first fell in love with.
The place that I feel like I can be my true self.
Where is your home?
It's where people disrespect people of color.
Where they like to support deportation.
Where color in the world is starting to fade away.
Where is your home?
The place where I can talk to people who understand me.
Where I can learn things that will help me in the future.
The place where I feel loved and cared about.
Where is your home?
It’s where I’m in on a big stage, with bright lights, and many people.
The place where I feel happy, and dance like it's the last time.
It's where me and my team dance, win, and make many memories.
Where is your home?
The place where I met my best friend Mary.
Who always makes me smile when I'm sad.
The one who makes me feel safe, happy, laugh, and supported.
Where is your home?
It’s the place where I feel comfortable, happy, made fun of, and proud of.
The place where you’ll always be laughing.
The people who live there that I love.
Where is your home?
My home is always a special place to me, and not just because of the people. But because of the memories that have been made.
The place you’ll never forget.
Home isn’t ever just one place, Home is many places where you make many life changing memories.
by 8th grade
“Where is your home?”
Topeka kansas but it is boring
And it makes me feel lonely
“Where is your home?”
The green colored house that
Is on the corner that my grandpa
grew up in.
“Where is your home?”
My house where i have
Lived all my life and have felt safe.
by 8th grade
Where is your home?
I feel at home with my siblings
With my pets
With my friends
Where is your home?
Outside
Where I can run
Where I can breathe
Where I can think
Where is your home?
In my books
Where I can imagine I'm in a different world
A different life
Where is your home?
I don't know which house is my home
I go back and forth between two
I don't know how to choose one
by 8th grade
where is your home?
i have family spread across
the states. traveling by car
has become normal.
where is your home?
sense i have so much family
i almost never know who
people are
where is your home?
back when i was little
i knew everyone
It was a small town
by 8th grade
What is your home?
My home you ask? It has never felt like I had a home.
What is your home?
My home is not a single place,
My home is not like others,
It is not a place at all.
What is your home?
My home is not a place,
For it is sometimes people,
But my home oh my home.
What is your home?
My home is the words on paper that make a world feel real
My home is not a real place but a place where I can go in my mind,
For my home is the immersing of worlds I cannot live in.
What is your home?
My home is a place where only I know…
For my home is the story I make up in my head
For my home is the worlds in books that I cannot see but only imagine
For my home is unlike any place I’ve ever known
For my home is not a place or any person,
For it is my own mind that I can truly find that I will not feel judged,
Or feel pressure
For I am just myself, and there is not a single care in the world.
So my home you ask, well I’ve never felt like I had a home because to me it has felt like my own mind is my home.
by 8th grade