2018-2019 Social Justice Poetry

In April and May, students in our class researched and discussed
various social justice topics that can be found in picture books.
Students read, reflected, and then wrote poems about
topics that they felt passionate about. Here are their poems and
paintings.



Giving Hearts by M.A.L.

Giving to homeless shelters is the best

help poor and other people too

help the world a lot if you give to homeless shelters.

Fairness by B.A.

Race doesn’t matter

Include people

Everyone in the world is happy

No bullying

Disagree to what others say

Sharing is caring

Happiness

People are nice.

Bully Bean!!!!!!!!!!!!! by A.C.

Bullies can be green        

Bullies can be black

Bullies can be white

And don’t be a green bully or a black bully or a white bully don't be
any bully bean but you can be a good upstanding bean because being
a bully bean can make other people feel like a very sad bean!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  

And people know life can be hard full of taunting

full of laughing beans

Know they are being mean and a bully bean

But they are only trying to make themselves feel better About
themselves

So if you're a bean and you're being bullied just say stop I'm not
a bully bean and you shouldn't be either ! so just

Stop being a bully bean!!!!!!!

Unfairness

by E.D.

It's not right, the way black people are
treated                                                     
No white better No black worse

Life should be fair for any color
So only you can change the world!!!
so get to it!!!

 

Elizabeth Cady Stanton by S.F.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton changed the world!

Her father was a businessman he took women’s farms and homes when their husbands died.

Because the law was different then, but Elizabeth changed it forever.

She did speeches, marches, and talks

Elizabeth knew that the only way to change the world

Was through women’s right to vote.

Many people threatened her, but many people supported her for women’s right to vote.

She changed the world. If she didn’t, the law might be the same today.

You Can Do It! by C.G.

You're young and awesome and you can change the world.

Just because you're young you can still do a lot of things you can be

Famous

you can change the world

Kids are like small versions of adults

So kids can do almost just as much as adults can

You can change people's lives although you are young and small You can be just as popular as adults

And you're just as important as adults

Like if somebody is getting bullied you can help although you're young

Homelessness by L.H.

Homeless must get paid!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Homelessness is bad,bad,bad!!!!!!!!

No food is bad,bad!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Kindness by C.L.

kindness is ...

Being good to others…

                    Treat others the same you want to be treated...

Be Good…

And kind.

Voting Rights for People by K.L.

Everyone should be able to vote.

Voting rights for women and black people. Before voting rights, people were not able to vote, but now people still have problems voting. Policies prevent people by making it harder to vote. They shouldn’t do that. We all should change the world together.

Change by T.L.

Black and white what’s the matter? Why do they just hate the other? What could be big what could be small? Don’t we want to change at all? How could you believe that the people are gone? Why don’t we just come to get along? All the black history is all the clues And we can change that by doing it now.

Up To You by S.M.

Help the people who want a home.

Help a person who needs food and water

   It is up to you

Racism by Z.S.R.

Racism …

...is Cruel

…is Sad

…is Bad

...is Unfair

...is Being mean

...Is Hate

Women's Rights by D.T.

We stand together

Women’s rights are important

Fairness for women!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Colors by N.V.

Black and white white and black

black is brown and white is Peach it took a hundred years
to notice it took a lot of brave people that changed the world
and it's still happening

Homelessness by H.U.

Homeless

sad and gloomy cold

Homeless need money

and food

they have no place to sleep

and home sleeping on the street

Dark all night

Sleeping in a pile of snow

Freezing into an ice cube

Turning red in the hot hot sun

Mosquitos eating them alive

RBG (Ruth Bader Ginsburg) by A.W.

She fights for gender

She fights for workers

She fights against presidents

She fights with presidents

 She fights for women's rights

She fights for lawyers  

She fights for girls going to school

She fights for Jewish people and Mexican people

     She fights for Change in the world

                     Women’s rights by S.Y.

   A long time ago in the 1800s, women
were not allowed to vote.They marched
till they got what they wanted. Soon
they did.

Women's Rights by Z.Z.

Clothes in sight

Bright, bright, bright all night…

Until somebody makes a fight

A scary fight with no light

With screams and stomps

Dishes and cooking

That’s not all we do

We make a change

And we keep on going

Barack Obama by R.A.