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[Katherine Berarducci]

Devin, Grade 7

8:45 on september 11^th

That’s when the north tower blew

And it wasn’t long after when the people all knew

That the world trade centers south tower blew too

 

Al-qaeuda hijacked our boeings

And flew them across america,

Destroying the twin towers and parts of the pentagon too

Killing thousands and thousands of people

 

America was shattered

 New York was torn and tattered,

No longer a place full of joy

 

One by one bodies hauled into bags

Shipped homed in caskets

Lungs filled with ashes

 

Ashes layed everywhere

Were cleaned up in weeks

Damage was permanent

Life picked on the weak

 

Now 2 bright blue lights stand where the towers once where

As a memorial and memory

Of 9/11

 

NEVER FORGET

 

Catherine, Grade 7

 

They came in the night

They came in the night

We left by day

Keeping all our tears away

They gave us such a fright

 

Their heads pointed up

Their guns pointed down

They looked at us like clowns

And locked us up like animals

 

In the cars that had no space

We couldn’t even keep breathing in pace

No food or water for 3 days

We were all in a haze

 

This was the second time

We had been taken away

From the horrible place

Called “Auschwitz”

 

When they let us out we all fell down

Lack of food killing some of us now

We gave away or jewels and anything

Mother cried when they took her ring

 

Father told me to stay calm

How could I? It was the break of dawn!

They marched us in a room so bright

Lighting up the dark of night

 

I heard people cry and scream

So did I when I looked at the machine

It made you bleed though they kept going

Paving numbers across our veins

 

Leaving marks that’d cause us pain

981766

That was mine

It paved blood across the numbers

 

But even though this was happening

I gazed into the sky

And as I looked up, I could just about swear

I saw a plane.

 

Jeffrey, Grade 7

America’s Fate

This war that started in 1861

  Has started to make America done

  As Lincoln caused an unneeded war

  That is filled with tons of violence and gore

  Its negative attitude has people cryin’

  Because of everybody who is dyin’

  Slavery also had an impact on this battle

  Confederates are lookin’ for a tattle

 

  Antietam is stuffed with a lot of death

  Cold steel lies on the ground

  People are also in pain while they’re downed

  Just for their devotion to this war

 

  Soldiers are sprinting yelling in sorrow

  Nobody will survive if not tomorrow

  Burning and explosions are causing smoke and ash

  Crashing America’s overall brotherhood

  Robert E. Lee is a strong general

  But Ulysses is his great opponent

  All because of an entire cause for American life

  Where it can be just split evenly by a knife

 

  Its negative attitude has people cryin’

  Because of everybody who is dyin’

  From Shiloh to other total war like Bull Run

  Everybody is just now about to jump the gun

 

  This war that ended in 1865

  Has started to make the U.S thrive

  For this is the end

  And we… We must make amends

[Amy Remington]

The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald student sample

Grade 6

[Amy Remington]

Grade 6 student sample