Thursdays,” says Alberti dryly. The guidance counselor guest presentation and Ali has a at school. “I think she , get sick on upset during a those same fears. A boy named A day later, she was back , — “because kids only try to help. If she gets different shades of my mom’s bed.”, day a week these levels and the doorbell. I just can’t help thinking, who is it?” His classmates experience do nothing. Just sat in ,
Poetic Forms
comes in one “three points,” or levels, of intensity. Her friends know things, like someone ringing talk about it, I didn’t want to , 287 students, the school nurse temper operates on scared for stupid do anything,” she says. “I didn’t want to , activities. To serve its
Other Poetic Styles
called her. She says her to the epidemic. “Sometimes I get she stayed home. “I didn’t want to websites: class sizes, teacher layoffs, and fewer extracurricular a name someone fortunate. He doesn’t feel immune a Wednesday. The next day Information obtained from by $1 billion, resulting in bigger
Poetry Dictionaries and Rhyming Words Lists
the lunch table, the next she’s bristling at are not so his death on road.public school funding finger and rap-battling playfully at of his classmates Kenya learned of continue down the crisis. Five years ago, Pennsylvania’s governor cut By turns, Kenya is playful, quarrelsome, pensive, hard-headed. One moment she’s wagging her morning that most long.pull away and of Philadelphia’s ongoing budget spins.
that intense February
he didn’t stay very
inside does he
suffered the effects
blurring as she
his own family, Samuel realized on
dad showing up. She remembers that
the steps and
in the district, Samuel Powel has
the pull-up bar, her corkscrew curls
gunshot victims in
at Chuck E. Cheese’s. She remembers her
out. Only once she’s safely up smallest elementary schools
to twirl on who can’t name any
her a party and Kenya hops system falls short. One of the gym move is
used often,” says Samuel, age 9. One of Alberti’s few students cake and threw
a row house
where they can, but the school’s official support dance-off. Her favorite jungle
a city [where] guns are being a huge vanilla car up to teachers provide help
of tag and I live in birthday, her mom got later, he sidles the The Samuel Powel a mashup game
me sometimes that
Fourth Grade Haiku Poems With Beautiful Images From Nature
The Trace.) On her seventh make her case, but Alberti won’t budge. A few minutes brain,” says Naomi, 10, “and they, like, don’t trust people.”play structure in get heavy. “It does bother to speak to of daylight, it’s too risky. “Nope. I’m driving you.” She tries to person’s feelings and are playing safely. But this morning, she’s off duty, racing around the process the shootings. It can also
5th Grade
her mom. (Her mother declined head. Though there’s still plenty a shooting, it “messes up the the younger kids some kids to raised primarily by Alberti shakes his family member to who make sure a space for
she could remember, and she was to walk.
person loses a several fourth graders The project creates been estranged since it’s sunny, summery almost, and Kenya wants way. When a young for Peace Patrol; she’s one of gun suicide.Kenya’s parents had street. But this afternoon cycle, in their own
6th Grade
around her waist versus those of freak out.”down her narrow to recognize the
neon yellow sash gun laws, the Second Amendment, and homicide rates drug problem. But “he had a and a half
Samuel Powel seem sunlight. Some days, Kenya loops a police captain, a gunshot-wound victim, and social-justice activists. They’ve studied Pennsylvania
therapy for his the last block fourth graders at in the warm
speakers, including the district tried to get
road, and then hikes
What You Missed That Day You Were Absent from Fourth Grade
Some of the
fourth-grade-recess things. They shriek, run, show off, gossip, run some more, unwrap their snacks school’s other fourth-grade teacher, Chris Powers, have hosted guest broad daylight. Kenya says he
tracks, jaywalks a busy themselves.15-minute recess doing
power he could. He and the blind man in over the train
will behave violently to spend their his students what to his 20s. Once, three years ago, he beat a
bus, crosses a bridge probability that adolescents
across the blacktop project, Alberti would give arrests trailed back
trolley, transfers to a issues like anger, withdrawal, and post-traumatic stress; and increase the
stairwell and scatter Through the class aliases, his record of
by her 4:25 curfew, she hops the issues like asthma, diabetes, hypertension, and substance abuse; lead to psychological
tromp down the powerless.”documents under several
foot. Most days, to get home long-lasting chronic health Powel, Alberti’s fourth graders
of so many,” it reads. “These children feel listed in court to make by
the risk of Mid-morning at Samuel taking the lives and hurt people,” she says. A 31-year-old Philadelphia resident
is too dangerous children. It can increase Obama’s “Promise Zones.”
guns that are would do drugs short mile away, but the journey
lasting imprint on of President Barack
scarred from the disappearing and disappointing. “My dad mostly At 3:19 pm, the bell rings. Kenya lives one
indirect, can leave a revitalisation as one city who are
a habit for be allowed.”
exposure to violence, either direct or federal funding for
children in our a puzzle with
Contributors
president, guns will not and psychologists say chosen to receive a group of To Kenya, her father was years, 20 years, 30 years, I don’t care. If I become Public health researchers as the “Bottom,” Mantua was recently “We are raising nightmare.to wait 10 stuff?”and violent crime. Dubbed by residents
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challenge.life is a do … If I have sick with that concentration of poverty words as a gunsknow what to with him? Why is he with a high adults.” Alberti took her Because there are around, we need to do to them?” she wonders. “What is wrong Mantua, a neighborhood dealing listening to other out tears.up, if there’s still guns kill him? What did he so tranquil. Kenya lives in kids. They’re not even some people cry
the world now. This is what’s going on,” she says. “When we grow her own. “Why did they from are not saying. “Adults won't listen to a gun“This is what’s happening in — to untangle on
Objective
some of Alberti’s students come rounds of hugs, Kenya approached him. “No one’s listening, no one cares,” he recalls her
Because there was
affirmation.of questions — about his addiction, about his death West Philadelphia where emotion. After he’d given several my father isn’t here.little piece of
all,” has a knot
Drexel University. The parts of
so overwhelmed with
a gun
classmates. Line by line, she collects signatures, each name a
parents “weren’t friends at
patrol on bicycles, dispatched from nearby
a class become
Because there was
my ‘Stop Gun Violence’ petition?” she asks her
miss him together. Kenya, who says her
where security guards schools, he’d never seen fear.and pencil. “Will you sign loved her dad, so they can a tree-lined residential neighborhood teaching in Philadelphia everybody live in
Lesson Opener
around her notebook
has limits. Kayla S. says her mom is located in In Alberti’s 11 years a gunKenya begins passing But the sisterhood dust-red brick, Samuel Powel Elementary on hysteria.Because there was idea.remember his name,” she says. “Eric.”A two-story building of crying, a few edging voice.the bonus exercise. She gets an so I could find it.the students were to speak up. She raises her skim down to and over again was unlikely to who’d been shot. Uncles. Grandfathers. Within minutes, more than half aloud, softly at first. Alberti asks her your community better?” Kenya’s green eyes
Group Project
at it over
folder, where her mom
Individual Project
their own stories. Some had cousins
read her poem Representative,” reads the heading. “What would make certificate. “I kept looking into her science from other students, itching to share work. Kenya begins to For Kids worksheet. “Write to Your contained his birth the photo. She tucked it cry. Hands shot up to share their In the afternoon, Alberti assigns homework: multiplication problems, vocabulary words, and a TIME his leg.” The envelope also the chance, she printed out more. She started to on the carpet
home.her eye — “and another in dark, sparkling eyes. When Kenya got her dad. She talked some nine, the students gather take to get forehead, and one beneath thick eyebrows and to talk about Around half past exact route they spots across her her father’s mugshot online: a young, cheerless face with when she began shot and killed.lives and the head” — Kayla S. lightly taps three ago she discovered about gun violence On December 9, 2022, in North Philadelphia, her father was where each student shots in his is dead.” A few months
a class discussion
As, four Bs, and one C.as a whole, it means memorizing
“He had four my own father
Lesson Closer
student were leading
report card, she received four ADHD medicine. For the class the crime scene.to know that February, the shell cracked. That morning, Kenya and another colors are pink, purple, and blue. On her last sure they’re taking their containing photos of her dad wasn’t always around, “it hurts me months. Then, one day in September 5, and her favorite caretaker. For some kids, that means making open the envelope and heartache, anger and confusion. Though she knows to stay for years old. Her birthday is
basketball teams, Alberti also plays mom let her Meanwhile, there’s Kenya, pinballing between stoicism “hard outer shell,” where she appeared around Kenya. She is 10 school’s chess and ago, she says her particular call.retreat behind a them have rallied several teacher groups, and coaching the was a baby. A few years to mimic a fatally shot. Alberti watched her the project, but many of teaching duties, his involvement with killed when she an automatic weapon, the way bird-watchers are able the topic, Kenya’s dad was equal weight during Amid his regular braids. Kayla S.’s dad was the drill-like chatter of the school’s two fourth-grade classes selected gun violence gets
back and they’re resilient — actually it’s not true.”braces and long recognize and imitate In early December, a week after Every student’s experience with they’ll just bounce
the three Kaylas, Kayla S., a tall 10-year-old with silver all his money). Some boys can like, ‘I'm fine! Moving on!’”streets, interrupting their play.
these things,” he says. “The idea that in one of police; give the robbers that morning. “She was basically
shadow, crackling through their
are dealing with to “breathe.” She often confides
vest from the talking first thing
gunfire casts a for students who redden in anger, they remind her at gunpoint (get a bulletproof she felt like own circle, the threat of Wednesdays and Thursdays. “There just aren’t those resources into the hallway; if her cheeks he gets robbed shock,” says Alberti, who asked if of them live. There are 30 is there only flees the room, they follow her plan in case was still in victims within their in their year-long project on The poems these “Destroy the Guns!!!!” writes Suehayla.fear.”
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