Danielle Legros Georges: Writing About Your Community

DANIELLE LEGORS GEORGES:
WRITING ABOUT YOUR COMMUNITY

Recommended Grades: 6-12th + adult, Topics: identity, writing prompt

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Discussion Guide:
Poem for the Poorest Country in the Western Hemisphere

Writing Prompt: Write a poem about your community, or your group, or your country that may have been given a limiting label. How do you deal with that label? How do you draw images about what your community, group or country really is?

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Read the poem: Poem for the Poorest Country in the Western Hemisphere

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