Some of the poems that the students shared were funny; others were informative, playful, historic and moving.
The entire poetry slam is in the videos below:
Part 1: Division Head of CCGS Cindy Surdi kicked off our Poetry Slam, along with Middle School Humanities teacher Jesse Green, who warmed up the crowd with several introductory poems:
The students had much fun as they developed their literacy, speech and language, communication and various other skills through their poem readings and writings.
You can watch more poetic performances by our students through the following link:
http://cookecentergrammarschool.weebly.com/blog/category/poetry