SLA

Last Wednesday, a poetry slam fest was held in the SLA Café. Two of Mr. Lehmann’s former Beacon students and b-ball team members, Denice Frohman and Elizabeth Acevedo, came down from NYC to participate. Both have performed at the Bowery Poetry Club and the Nuyurican Café. Elizabeth was on the New York City Youth Slam team that won the National Slam Competition, and Denice did a one-woman show at Dowling College. They performed a few of their numbers, and some SLA students got to show off with compositions of their own. The ballroom club did a tango, and Dan and Josh played some music.

Five page essay on connection between poems and history. In this benchmark, we where given the choice to pick a time period, and choice a poem from the time period, and analyze the issues of the time period. We then had to write a 5 page essay on making a connection from the poetry of that time to the issues that we occurring in that certain time period. The time period that I chose was the Vietnam War, and I used the song ‘Machine Gun” by Jimi Hendrix and tried to make a connection between them.

Our third marking was a mixture between history and english. We had to pick a any time period that came before the 90's and 00's and then we had to find poetry from that time. We had to write five pages about the poetry that was connected to the history.